Skip to content
NEXTMOVEFDE
Sign inSign up
Menu

FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors

1,700 postings · 920 companies · 1,173 state pay: median $180,000, half $151,000–$215,000

Postings read on

Updated

All filters

Counts show jobs matching each option and your other filters. Select several options to match any of them.

Location

Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.

Pay

Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.

Arrangement
Type of work
Level

Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.

Background

The experience the posting asks you to arrive with, in the employer’s own words, not our reading of the job. A posting that states no experience requirement is in none of these, and neither is one asking for experience outside the five.

Experience

Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.

Posted
Travel

Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.

Individual contributor or managerIndividual contributor
Company stage
Coding work
Project stages
Implementation share

Estimated from the job description, not measured working hours.

Who you build for
Visa sponsorship
Company size

Estimated from public information about the company. Bands are approximate. Companies without a stated size are listed as not stated.

1,700 jobs match

Location

Selected metros or remote. Remote jobs may have residency restrictions.

1,700 jobs match

Pay

Matches the top of the posted range, annualized in US dollars and sometimes including variable pay. Postings with no posted range are hidden when you choose an amount.

1,700 jobs match

Arrangement

1,700 jobs match

Type of work

1,700 jobs match

Level

Our reading of the role, not the employer’s title. Junior: guided work; Mid: independent delivery; Senior: leads an ambiguous project through production; Staff+: leads across teams or projects.

1,700 jobs match

Background

The experience the posting asks you to arrive with, in the employer’s own words, not our reading of the job. A posting that states no experience requirement is in none of these, and neither is one asking for experience outside the five.

1,700 jobs match

Experience

Postings that ask for that many years or fewer, plus postings that state no requirement. The kind of experience still matters.

1,700 jobs match

Posted

1,700 jobs match

Travel

Postings that do not mention travel are treated as no travel, so they are left out of 25% or more.

1,700 jobs match

Individual contributor

1,700 jobs match

SiftIntegrates and configures it

Forward Deployed Engineer

Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAMarina Del Rey, CA +1Hybrid

$125,000–$175,000

1,006 of 1,700 build what the customer runs.

Compare pay across US FDE roles →

Frequently asked questions

What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors pay?

1,173 of 1,700 postings state a pay range. The median is $180,000, and half of them sit between $151,000 and $215,000, from 598 companies.

How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors require?

Of 1,700 postings, 857 state a minimum number of years, from 567 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 508 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (174), 6 to 9 years (151) or 10 or more years (24).

Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors?

These 1,700 postings come from 920 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (71), Amazon (incl AWS) (30), Anduril (22), SpaceX (21) and Booz Allen (20).

Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors remote?

347 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 384 are hybrid and 538 are on-site. The remaining 431 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 638 of the 1,700 postings.

Counted over the 1,700 postings in this search. Postings read on November 4, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.

Employer postings · How we read postings

Related pages