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ElizaProduction engineering
Forward Deployed Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
Pay not posted
$180,000–$300,000
$165,000–$330,000
$170,000–$280,000
$140,000–$180,000
Booz AllenProduction engineering
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Engineer, Senior
Wahiawa, HI
$99,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
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$140,000–$165,000
$156,000–$224,250
$166,500–$291,400
$150,000–$250,000
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$70,500–$203,400
$166,000–$220,000
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Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Sr. Delivery Consultant - AI/ML, WWPS ProServe
Jersey City, NJ · Austin, TX · +6 moreJersey City, NJ +7
$153,600–$239,000
$112,200–$196,400
$144,900–$302,100
$191,000–$253,000
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$99,000–$225,000
$104,800–$218,500
$191,000–$253,000
$120,000–$136,000
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$170,000–$210,000
Booz AllenProduction engineering
Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer
Arlington, VA · Mclean, VA · +1 moreArlington, VA +2
$77,600–$176,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Public Sector
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
$150,000–$250,000
$190,000–$230,000
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay?
1,306 of 1,673 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $230,000, across 381 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require?
Of 1,673 postings, 656 state a minimum number of years, from 281 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 311 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (224), under 3 years (74) or 10 or more years (47).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers?
These 1,673 postings come from 525 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (77), Databricks (67), Amazon (incl AWS) (58), Palantir (51) and Accenture (43).
Are FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers remote?
297 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 415 are hybrid and 402 are on-site. The remaining 559 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 792 of the 1,673 postings.
Counted over the 1,673 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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