$320,000–$405,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs with significant travel
100 postings · 47 companies · 93 state pay: median $230,000, half $213,000–$262,000
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Deloitte USLeads the deployment team
Lead Databricks Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS
Multiple US offices
$189,200–$372,900
$189,200–$372,900
$223,700–$372,900
Deloitte USLeads the deployment team
Lead Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS
Multiple US offices
$189,200–$372,900
$180,000–$225,000
$207,000–$294,000
AnthropicPlans what the customer deploys first
Technical Deployment Lead
Boston, MA · New York, NY · +2 moreBoston, MA +3Hybrid
$275,000–$380,000
$208,000–$260,000
$208,000–$260,000
$141,781–$191,404
Pay not posted
$215,000–$245,000
MendixLeads the deployment team
Intelligence Center X Engineering Manager - Americas
US · city not listedHybrid
$197,300–$394,600
$100,000–$170,000
SpaceXBuilds for teams inside the company
Operations Engineer, Applied AI (Application Software)
Vandenberg, CAOn-site
$100,000–$160,000
Danaher CorporationBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI Engineer, Legal - USA Remote
USRemote
$185,000–$200,000
$220,000–$292,000
Distyl AILeads the deployment team
AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$190,000–$230,000
52 of 100 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs with significant travel pay?
93 of 100 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $213,000 and $262,000, from 41 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs with significant travel require?
Of 100 postings, 78 state a minimum number of years, from 38 companies. The most common requirement is 10 or more years, in 29 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (27), 3 to 5 years (21) or under 3 years (1).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs with significant travel?
These 100 postings come from 47 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (17), Deloitte US (9), OpenAI (6), Accenture (5) and Microsoft (4).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs with significant travel remote?
26 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 26 are hybrid and 6 are on-site. The remaining 42 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 100 of the 100 postings.
Counted over the 100 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. Travel is the share the posting states. Postings that never mention travel are left out. · How we read postings