Staff Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$240,000–$300,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers
103 postings · 67 companies · 95 state pay: median $245,000, half $223,000–$275,000
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$197,800–$271,975
$200,000–$287,500
$194,736.75–$265,613.9
$183,997–$257,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
$304,000–$437,000
$191,000–$289,300
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$280,000–$320,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$264,000–$379,500
$220,000–$270,000
$232,900–$291,100
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$198,000–$319,000/mo
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$215,000–$275,000
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
$262,000–$364,000
$158,520–$294,360
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$97,860–$316,750
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +40 moreMountain View, CA +41
$112,900–$302,400
$185,000–$300,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
Pay not posted
$194,000–$266,000
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$153,000–$376,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$190,000–$270,000
$168,912–$253,368
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer [NYC or SF]
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$240,000–$300,000
$200,000–$270,000
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$252,000–$315,000
$220,000–$239,000
Pay not posted
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
$190,900–$334,100
67 of 103 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers pay?
95 of 103 postings state a pay range. The median is $245,000, and half of them sit between $223,000 and $275,000, from 60 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers require?
Of 103 postings, 75 state a minimum number of years, from 50 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 36 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (20) or 3 to 5 years (19).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers?
These 103 postings come from 67 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (9), ServiceNow (6), Scale AI (4), Snorkel AI (4) and Snowflake (4).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers remote?
11 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 33 are hybrid and 19 are on-site. The remaining 40 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 48 of the 103 postings.
Counted over the 103 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings