$180,000–$240,000
Staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept serving external customers
110 postings · 70 companies · 102 state pay: median $241,000, half $209,000–$283,000
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Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 moreDenver, CO +4
$168,100–$227,400
$200,000–$287,500
$145,600–$240,695
$191,000–$289,300
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$168,100–$250,200
$150,000–$200,000
Up to $185,000
$191,000–$289,300
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization)
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 moreBoston, MA +4
$168,100–$250,200
$232,900–$291,100
$198,000–$319,000/mo
$117,600–$206,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$158,520–$294,360
$124,646–$168,272
$143,640–$273,000
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreNew York, NY +41
$112,900–$302,400
$185,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
Sr Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Jessup, MD · Arlington, VA · +4 moreJessup, MD +5
$168,100–$250,200
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
$182,000–$250,208
$168,912–$253,368
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$300,000–$350,000
$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
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$220,000–$239,000
$200,000–$225,000
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$220,000–$239,000
$189,200–$372,900
Pay not posted
Sr. AI Engineer - Forward Deployed Engineer Senior Manager · Snowflake · Reinvention Centers
Dallas, TX · Columbus, OH · +3 moreDallas, TX +4Hybrid
$112,900–$338,300
$165,600–$331,200
Staff Solutions Engineer - FDSE Public Sector - Splunk (Remote)
Reston, VA · Boulder, CO · +6 moreReston, VA +7Remote
$246,800–$394,300
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What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept serving external customers pay?
102 of 110 postings state a pay range. The median is $241,000, and half of them sit between $209,000 and $283,000, from 63 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept serving external customers require?
Of 110 postings, 84 state a minimum number of years, from 55 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 36 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (25) or 3 to 5 years (23).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept serving external customers?
These 110 postings come from 70 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (9), Deloitte US (9), OpenAI (7), Accenture (3) and Scale AI (3).
Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs involving proof of concept serving external customers remote?
21 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 31 are hybrid and 20 are on-site. The remaining 38 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 63 of the 110 postings.
Counted over the 110 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. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings