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FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers
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Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership
Director, Forward Deployed Researcher - Data as a Service
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · US remoteNew York, NY +1 · US remoteRemote
$228,000–$403,200
$170,000–$280,000 · OTE
$200,000–$300,000
PalantirImplementation & delivery
Forward Deployed Security Engineer - US Government
Washington, DCOn-site
$90,000–$150,000
Snorkel AIDeployment team leadership
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$268,800–$403,000
DatabricksDeployment strategy
Lead Engagement Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Healthcare & Life Sciences
US · city not listed
$143,000–$245,850
$320,000–$405,000
$160,000–$180,000
$185,000–$235,000
IntercomDeployment team leadership
Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CAHybrid
$252,000–$280,000
Pay not posted
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$90,000–$225,000
$153,000–$200,000
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$180,000–$320,000
$180,000–$230,000
ModalImplementation & delivery
Forward Deployed Engineer - ML
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1On-site
$180,000–$250,000
Pay not posted
$175,000–$205,000
Pay not posted
$140,000–$250,000
$135,000–$175,000
GroundswellImplementation & delivery
Applied Data Scientist, AI Data Platforms
Mclean, VA · Washington, DCMclean, VA +1Remote
$103,307–$178,090
$171,200–$256,800 · OTE
Pay not posted
$150,000–$300,000
$210,000–$220,000
$137,000–$182,000
$180,000–$220,000
$153,600–$207,800
$200,000–$250,000
$184,000–$287,500
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers pay?
464 of 579 postings state a pay range. The median is $210,000, and half of them sit between $170,000 and $237,000, across 192 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers require?
Of 579 postings, 244 state a minimum number of years, from 131 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 125 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (77), 10 or more years (24) or under 3 years (18).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers?
These 579 postings come from 259 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (44), LangChain (16), Databricks (15), OpenAI (15) and Amazon (incl AWS) (12).
Are FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers remote?
124 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 165 are hybrid and 133 are on-site. The remaining 157 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 289 of the 579 postings.
Counted over the 579 postings in this search. Postings read on September 19, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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