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FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers
1,157 postings · 539 companies · 897 state pay: median $205,000, half $170,000–$230,000
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$232,900–$291,100
$198,000–$319,000/mo
$216,750–$263,925
$110,000–$170,000
Pay not posted
$220,000–$240,000 · OTE
$150,000–$190,000
$180,000–$220,000
$117,600–$206,000
Senior Product Manager, Forward Deployed Platform
San Francisco, CA · Denver, CO · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$190,000–$300,000
$150,000–$190,000
Forward Deployed Engineer - Cybersecurity - US
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$400,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$165,000–$200,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreChicago, IL +42On-site
$80,400–$316,300
$155,000–$186,000
$180,000–$300,000
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$215,000–$275,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention
Chicago, IL · Milwaukee, WI · +41 moreChicago, IL +42
$112,900–$366,300
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Technical Architect - Forward Deployed Engineering
Pleasanton, CA · Austin, TXPleasanton, CA +1On-site
$170,000–$220,000
$155,600–$306,800
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Applied AI
Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +3 moreChicago, IL +4Hybrid
$82,082–$193,440
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
New York, NY · Frisco, TX · +7 moreNew York, NY +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer V, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$262,000–$364,000
ConvergeProsperity - Product Forward Deployed Engineer, BankingSuite (Manager) - Products & Platforms
Multiple US offices
$134,500–$266,100
$137,160–$228,480
Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · Ann Arbor, MI · +1 moreFrisco, TX +2Hybrid
$137,100–$254,700
$124,646–$168,272
$200,000–$250,000
$158,520–$294,360
$143,640–$273,000
$97,860–$316,750
$175,000–$200,000
$220,000–$245,000
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreNew York, NY +41
$112,900–$302,400
$200,000–$250,000
$175,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
743 of 1,157 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers pay?
897 of 1,157 postings state a pay range. The median is $205,000, and half of them sit between $170,000 and $230,000, from 372 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers require?
Of 1,157 postings, 757 state a minimum number of years, from 373 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 385 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (267), 10 or more years (57) or under 3 years (48).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers?
These 1,157 postings come from 539 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (70), Databricks (63), Amazon (incl AWS) (34), OpenAI (25) and Accenture (24).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads serving external customers remote?
251 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 289 are hybrid and 236 are on-site. The remaining 381 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 615 of the 1,157 postings.
Counted over the 1,157 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