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$185,000–$230,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Field Engineer, Public Sector
Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +3 moreAustin, TX +4
$150,400–$226,550
WriterProduction engineering
AI deployment engineer (Central)
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +3 moreSan Francisco, CA +4Hybrid
$131,800–$166,000
$180,000–$390,000
StriveworksProduction engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer (Active Secret Clearance)
Tacoma, WAHybrid
$185,000–$230,000
$175,000–$230,000
AccentureProduction engineering
AI Native Engineer - Reinvention Center
Columbus, OH · Tampa, FL · +2 moreColumbus, OH +3Hybrid
$62,800–$261,500
$138,000–$170,000
Pay not posted
$191,000–$253,000
Pay not posted
$200,000–$400,000
Pay not posted
OpenAIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$251,000–$278,000
$180,000–$390,000
$166,000–$220,000
Pay not posted
$251,000–$278,000
$180,000–$390,000
$166,000–$220,000
$185,000–$230,000
OpenAIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Digital Natives
San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WASan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$251,000–$278,000
SierraProduction engineering
Software Engineer, Agent (Brazilian Portuguese speaking)
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$180,000–$390,000
Pay not posted
Distyl AIProduction engineering
AI Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$150,000–$250,000
$200,000–$400,000
$191,000–$253,000
Pay not posted
IntrinsicProduction engineering
Customer Success Engineer, Robotics Software and Automation
Mountain View, CA
$132,000–$180,400
$200,000–$260,000
Distyl AIProduction engineering
Research Engineers, Agents
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$150,000–$250,000
$166,000–$253,000
Pay not posted
$200,000–$260,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
SpaceXProduction engineering
Mission Integration Engineer, AI (Starshield) - Top Secret Clearance
Hawthorne, CA
$100,000–$135,000
Pay not posted
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations pay?
668 of 879 postings state a pay range. The median is $190,000, and half of them sit between $158,000 and $223,000, across 309 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations require?
Of 879 postings, 296 state a minimum number of years, from 193 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 164 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (71), under 3 years (57) or 10 or more years (4).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations?
These 879 postings come from 419 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (50), Anduril (23), Amazon (incl AWS) (21), LangChain (19) and Booz Allen (18).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations remote?
145 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 227 are hybrid and 272 are on-site. The remaining 235 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 328 of the 879 postings.
Counted over the 879 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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