$220,000–$300,000
Staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area
41 postings · 26 companies · 35 state pay: median $255,000, half $236,000–$286,000
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Partner Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenAI, Google Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NYSunnyvale, CA +1
$207,000–$300,000
$221,200–$387,100
$236,000–$289,000
$185,000–$300,000
$130,000–$200,000
$180,000–$320,000
$153,000–$376,000
$100,000–$500,000 · base + variable
Pay not posted
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
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
$180,000–$233,000
$236,000–$339,250
$180,000–$400,000
$190,200–$360,500
$166,500–$291,400
$207,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$215,000–$260,000
Pay not posted
$207,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$190,900–$334,100
$180,000–$210,000
Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$180,000–$225,000
$200,000–$400,000
$190,900–$334,100
Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Autonomous Vehicles
San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CA +1
$177,000–$237,000
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$288,000–$360,000
$200,000–$400,000
Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$405,000–$485,000
Staff Specialist Field Engineer, Robotics
San Francisco, CA · Sunnyvale, CASan Francisco, CA +1
$177,000–$237,000
$220,000–$275,000
Staff Software Engineer (SF/NY)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$275,000–$400,000
Pay not posted
All 41 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area pay?
35 of 41 postings state a pay range. The median is $255,000, and half of them sit between $236,000 and $286,000, from 23 companies.
How much experience do staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area require?
Of 41 postings, 21 state a minimum number of years, from 16 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 9 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (9) or 10 or more years (3).
Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area?
These 41 postings come from 26 companies. The employers with the most postings are ServiceNow (4), Google (3), Scale AI (3), AMD (2) and Applied Intuition (2).
Are staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area remote?
6 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 12 are hybrid and 10 are on-site. The remaining 13 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 11 of the 41 postings.
Counted over the 41 postings in this search. Postings read on September 21, 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. · How we read postings