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FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers
1,283 postings · 694 companies · 867 state pay: median $181,000, half $153,000–$216,000
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Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +2 moreBoston, MA +3
$143,700–$213,800
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Capgemini Invent, Consultant, Forward Deployed Engineer
Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreAtlanta, GA +5
$110,000–$137,500
$134,700–$202,200
Forward Deployed Engineer, Kaggle, DeepMind (Fixed-Term Contract)
Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$232,000
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939 of 1,283 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers pay?
867 of 1,283 postings state a pay range. The median is $181,000, and half of them sit between $153,000 and $216,000, from 440 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers require?
Of 1,283 postings, 622 state a minimum number of years, from 404 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 375 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (124), 6 to 9 years (106) or 10 or more years (17).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers?
These 1,283 postings come from 694 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (55), Amazon (incl AWS) (24), Anduril (20), Booz Allen (20) and Accenture (19).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors serving external customers remote?
260 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 298 are hybrid and 438 are on-site. The remaining 287 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 558 of the 1,283 postings.
Counted over the 1,283 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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