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Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation serving external customers
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Kyndryl (Professional)Production engineering
Associate Director, Full-stack Forward Deployed Engineer
Frisco, TXHybrid
$143,640–$273,000
$97,860–$316,750
$220,000–$245,000
$119,800–$234,700
Handshake (AI training)Production engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$220,000–$300,000
GoogleProduction engineering
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$207,000–$300,000
AccentureProduction engineering
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreNew York, NY +41
$112,900–$302,400
$221,200–$387,100
$200,000–$250,000
$110,800–$177,300
$236,000–$289,000
$185,000–$300,000
$192,010–$274,300
$110,800–$177,300
$130,000–$200,000
SecurityScorecardProduction engineering
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
New York, NY · Austin, TXNew York, NY +1Hybrid
$200,000–$260,000
$192,010–$274,300
Pay not posted
$240,000–$280,000
$132,200–$211,500
$192,010–$274,300
$180,000–$230,000
Kyndryl (Professional)Production engineering
Associate Director, Full-stack Forward Deployed Engineer
Frisco, TXHybrid
$143,640–$273,000
$189,200–$372,900
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering
Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$200,100–$297,700
Snorkel AIProduction engineering
Senior/Staff FDE - CUA
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
$180,000–$240,000
Pay not posted
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government
Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$168,100–$250,200
Snorkel AIProduction engineering
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
MicrosoftProduction engineering
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Data Science
US · city not listed
$142,800–$304,200
FigmaProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Remote
$153,000–$376,000
$147,700–$215,000
TenstorrentProduction engineering
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
Austin, TX · Santa Clara, CAAustin, TX +1Remote
$100,000–$500,000 · base + variable
MicrosoftProduction engineering
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Engineering
US · city not listed
$142,800–$304,200
Pay not posted
$254,000–$297,000
Invisible TechnologiesProduction engineering
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
MicrosoftProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Health
New York, NYOn-site
$142,800–$331,200
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Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation serving external customers pay?
194 of 230 postings state a pay range. The median is $235,000, and half of them sit between $207,000 and $275,000, across 105 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving production implementation serving external customers require?
Of 230 postings, 121 state a minimum number of years, from 74 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 57 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 involving production implementation serving external customers?
These 230 postings come from 127 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 involving production implementation serving external customers remote?
50 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 66 are hybrid and 37 are on-site. The remaining 77 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 104 of the 230 postings.
Counted over the 230 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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