$133,400–$226,800
FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in Los Angeles serving external customers
49 postings · 26 companies · 38 state pay: median $193,000, half $171,000–$216,000
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Santa Monica, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreSanta Monica, CA +5
$168,100–$261,500
Forward Deployed Software Engineer-Palantir Foundry-Senior Associate
Irvine, CA · Chicago, IL · +57 moreIrvine, CA +58Hybrid
$77,000–$202,000
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CA · +2 moreLos Angeles, CA +3On-site
$150,000–$220,000
Pay not posted
$133,400–$226,800
$150,000–$190,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Manager | Sales ReInvention
Irvine, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreIrvine, CA +42On-site
$80,400–$316,300
Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI, CoCounsel FDE
Los Angeles, CA · New York, NY · +7 moreLos Angeles, CA +8Hybrid
$158,900–$340,000
$182,000–$250,208
$150,000–$190,000
AI Forward Deployed Engineering Senior Manager | Sales ReInvention
Irvine, CA · Chicago, IL · +41 moreIrvine, CA +42
$112,900–$366,300
$145,000–$175,000
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
Los Angeles, CA · New York, NY · +40 moreLos Angeles, CA +41
$112,900–$302,400
Full Stack Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Arlington, VA · +35 moreLos Angeles, CA +36
$80,400–$316,300
Forward Deployed AI Engineer Sr Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreLos Angeles, CA +39
$112,900–$366,300
Forward Deployed Engineer Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +38 moreLos Angeles, CA +39
$80,400–$316,300
Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$138,800–$434,000
$77,000–$202,000
Pay not posted
Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services
Irvine, CA · Herndon, VA · +1 moreIrvine, CA +2On-site
$168,100–$227,400
Enterprise AI Transformation Manager
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreLos Angeles, CA +41
$80,400–$266,300
Pay not posted
$99,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
Technical Commerce & AI Consultant | Agentic Commerce
Irvine, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreIrvine, CA +41
Pay not posted
$191,000–$253,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Google Agentic AI Delivery Specialist
Los Angeles, CA · Albany, NY · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$54,400–$196,000
$170,000–$270,000
Principal AI Software Engineer, TechEx (US)
Los Angeles, CA · Boston, MA · +7 moreLos Angeles, CA +8
$152,200–$205,900
$87,400–$293,800
GoogleIntegrates and configures it
AI Outcome Customer Engineer III, Forward Deployed Engineering
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +6 moreLos Angeles, CA +7
$183,000–$265,000
Pay not posted
GoogleIntegrates and configures it
AI Outcome Customer Engineer II, Forward Deployed Engineering
Los Angeles, CA · New York, NY · +6 moreLos Angeles, CA +7
$152,000–$221,000
Pay not posted
$166,000–$220,000
35 of 49 build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in Los Angeles serving external customers pay?
38 of 49 postings state a pay range. The median is $193,000, and half of them sit between $171,000 and $216,000, from 19 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in Los Angeles serving external customers require?
Of 49 postings, 31 state a minimum number of years, from 17 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 13 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (12), under 3 years (3) or 10 or more years (3).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in Los Angeles serving external customers?
These 49 postings come from 26 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (13), Field AI (3), First Resonance (3), Amazon (incl AWS) (2) and Anduril (2).
Are FDE and deployment jobs for technical leads in Los Angeles serving external customers remote?
4 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 7 are hybrid and 11 are on-site. The remaining 27 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 32 of the 49 postings.
Counted over the 49 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Coding scope, project stages and who the work serves are our reading of each job description. · How we read postings