$100,000–$180,000
FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams
300 postings · 200 companies · 235 state pay: median $186,000, half $154,000–$225,000
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Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$250,000–$300,000
Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical Sciences (Level Flexible)
Cambridge, MA · San Francisco, CACambridge, MA +1
$192,000–$256,000
Senior Data Scientist (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$193,000–$250,000
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA · +1 moreArlington, VA +2
$200,100–$270,600
$50–$55
Pay not posted
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Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Denver, CO · New York, NY · +2 moreDenver, CO +3
$200,100–$297,700
$120,000–$250,000
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$184,000–$356,500
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Up to $220,000
Pay not posted
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143 of 300 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams pay?
235 of 300 postings state a pay range. The median is $186,000, and half of them sit between $154,000 and $225,000, from 147 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams require?
Of 300 postings, 186 state a minimum number of years, from 138 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 84 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (52), under 3 years (29) or 10 or more years (21).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams?
These 300 postings come from 200 companies. The employers with the most postings are Palantir (16), Amazon (incl AWS) (13), Aircall (10), NVIDIA (7) and Sia (5).
Are FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers and internal teams remote?
77 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 78 are hybrid and 56 are on-site. The remaining 89 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 114 of the 300 postings.
Counted over the 300 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