ModalProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer - Systems
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$180,000–$240,000
1,313 postings from 441 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.
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ModalProduction engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$180,000–$240,000
OpenAIProduction engineering
Washington, DC · Seattle, WA · +1 moreWashington, DC +2Hybrid
$145,800–$280,000
PicogridProduction engineering
El Segundo, CA · Fort Bragg, NCEl Segundo, CA +1
$120,000–$200,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
$182,000–$250,208
$175,000–$240,000 · OTE
$175,000–$250,000
$140,000–$200,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
$185,000–$275,000
$190,000–$280,000
$180,000–$400,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
$130,000–$275,000
$120,000–$200,000
$180,000–$300,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Chicago, ILRemote
$182,000–$250,208
$165,000–$330,000
$170,000–$280,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Dallas, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
Booz AllenProduction engineering
Wahiawa, HI
$99,000–$225,000
$156,000–$224,250
$166,500–$291,400
$150,000–$250,000
$70,500–$203,400
$166,000–$220,000
$149,800–$262,200
Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Jersey City, NJ · Austin, TX · +6 moreJersey City, NJ +7
$153,600–$239,000
$102,100–$202,200
$112,200–$196,400
$144,900–$302,100
$191,000–$253,000
$207,000–$300,000
$99,000–$225,000
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1,312 of 1,313 postings state a pay range. The median is $212,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $239,000, across 440 companies.
Of 1,313 postings, 588 state a minimum number of years, from 257 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 269 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (231), 10 or more years (48) or under 3 years (40).
These 1,313 postings come from 441 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (70), Deloitte US (67), OpenAI (40), Amazon (incl AWS) (39) and Anduril (35).
209 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 338 are hybrid and 266 are on-site. The remaining 500 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 550 of the 1,313 postings.
Counted over the 1,313 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.