$141,200–$278,300
FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers
1,159 postings · 537 companies · 899 state pay: median $205,000, half $170,000–$229,000
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$180,000–$230,000
Lead Software Engineer, AI Labs (Product and Customer Facing)
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$148,500–$344,700
$119,800–$261,000
$246,800–$394,300
$180,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
$160,000–$190,000
$239,900–$359,900
$188,000–$242,000
$150,000–$200,000
$112,800–$257,000
$166,500–$291,400
$174,000–$252,000
Pay not posted
$195,000–$250,000
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Pleasanton, CAOn-site
$160,000–$220,000
$208,000–$261,000
$180,000–$270,000
$195,000–$250,000
$76,730–$150,800
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$190,000–$250,000
$180,000–$390,000
$190,900–$334,100
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$230,000–$360,000
Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services
Irvine, CA · Herndon, VA · +1 moreIrvine, CA +2On-site
$168,100–$227,400
$138,800–$208,200
$166,500–$291,400
$150,000–$300,000
$95,000–$115,000
$148,000–$222,000
Pay not posted
$200,000–$350,000
Pay not posted
$128,400–$192,500
$110,700–$372,900
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
744 of 1,159 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers pay?
899 of 1,159 postings state a pay range. The median is $205,000, and half of them sit between $170,000 and $229,000, from 370 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers require?
Of 1,159 postings, 761 state a minimum number of years, from 373 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 388 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (267), 10 or more years (58) or under 3 years (48).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers?
These 1,159 postings come from 537 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (70), Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (35), Accenture (25) and OpenAI (25).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers remote?
251 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 290 are hybrid and 234 are on-site. The remaining 384 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 616 of the 1,159 postings.
Counted over the 1,159 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings