$190,000–$250,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers
234 jobs
$205,000–$268,000
$100,000–$160,000
$180,000–$225,000
$160,000–$210,000
Pay not posted
$100,000–$225,000
$208,000–$260,000
$213,512–$223,512
$180,000–$235,000
$200,000–$300,000
Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling
Staff Network Engineer, App Platform
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$1–$1
Applied IntuitionDeployment team leadership
Engineering Manager - Forward Deployment (Defense)
Arlington, VAOn-site
$250,000–$300,000
$250,000–$425,000
Pay not posted
TuringDeployment team leadership
Staff Research Engineer
Palo Alto, CA · San Francisco, CA · +1 morePalo Alto, CA +2On-site
$250,000–$400,000 · OTE
$220,000–$350,000
$170,000–$210,000
$275,000–$360,000
$164,500–$296,700
$136,312–$184,021
$240,000–$300,000
MercorDeployment team leadership
Enterprise Applied AI Leader
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$300,000–$520,000
OrbDeployment team leadership
Manager, Implementation Architects- New York City
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$195,000–$275,000
$251,000–$335,000
$220,000–$292,000
AnthropicDeployment team leadership
Manager, Applied AI Engineering, Beneficial Deployments (Life Sciences)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$320,000–$405,000
Distyl AIDeployment team leadership
AI Engineer, Enterprise Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$190,000–$230,000
$250,000–$400,000
$280,000–$410,000
Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling
Staff Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3
$188,800–$362,000
Pay not posted
$200,000–$280,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay?
Of 234 postings, 198 list a pay range. The median posted range is $190,000–$280,000 across 106 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require?
Of 234 postings, 122 state a minimum number of years, from 74 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 58 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (38) or 3 to 5 years (26).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers?
These 234 postings come from 128 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (10), Deloitte US (10), Amazon (incl AWS) (9), CapTech Consulting (8) and Microsoft (7).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers remote?
Of 234 postings, 156 state a work arrangement, from 106 companies. Of those, 52 are remote, 66 are hybrid and 38 are on-site. Travel is mentioned in 106 of the 234 postings.
Counted over the 234 postings in this search, as read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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