Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations serving external customers
956 postings · 553 companies · 645 state pay: median $180,000, half $153,000–$215,000
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$210,000–$270,000
$158,000–$210,000
$192,000–$455,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$143,700–$213,800
$150,000–$200,000
$180,000–$220,000
$150,000–$275,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 moreDenver, CO +4
$143,700–$194,400
$150,000–$200,000
$114,000–$192,000
Senior Consultant CPM (Forward Deployed Engineer)
Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +1 moreAtlanta, GA +2Hybrid
$95,000–$140,000
$150,000–$240,000
Pay not posted
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$100,000–$120,000
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$207,000–$300,000
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Forward-Deployed Full-stack Engineer (React+Node)
Waltham, MA · Cincinnati, OH · +1 moreWaltham, MA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
Meridian: Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer (Senior / Washington, D.C. / Hybrid) [TS/SCI with CI poly]
Washington, DCHybrid
Pay not posted
Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI, Geo
Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +2 moreMountain View, CA +3
$152,000–$221,000
$155,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
$77,600–$176,000
$215,000–$241,000
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Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$143,700–$223,600
Forward-Deployed Full-stack Engineer
Waltham, MA · Cincinnati, OH · +1 moreWaltham, MA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$200,000–$375,000
$165,000–$220,000
$280,000–$320,000
Forward-Deployed Full-stack Engineer
Waltham, MA · Cincinnati, OH · +1 moreWaltham, MA +2Hybrid
Pay not posted
$150,000–$225,000
$145,000–$250,000
$130,600–$147,000
$120,000–$200,000
$170,000–$210,000
$145,000–$250,000
$140,000–$180,000
682 of 956 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations serving external customers pay?
645 of 956 postings state a pay range. The median is $180,000, and half of them sit between $153,000 and $215,000, from 353 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations serving external customers require?
Of 956 postings, 476 state a minimum number of years, from 329 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 299 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (86), 6 to 9 years (74) or 10 or more years (17).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations serving external customers?
These 956 postings come from 553 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (37), Anduril (20), Amazon (incl AWS) (16), Accenture (14) and Agile Defense (14).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors with ongoing operations serving external customers remote?
187 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 223 are hybrid and 336 are on-site. The remaining 210 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 421 of the 956 postings.
Counted over the 956 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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