Internship: Forward Deployed Engineer, Test
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CALos Angeles, CA +1On-site
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FDE and deployment jobs in Los Angeles serving external customers
108 postings · 47 companies · 89 state pay: median $192,000, half $165,000–$222,000
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Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$138,800–$434,000
Pay not posted
$77,000–$202,000
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$170,000–$200,000
Enterprise AI Transformation Consultant
Los Angeles, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreLos Angeles, CA +41
$54,400–$196,000
Senior Software / Data Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CALos Angeles, CA +1Hybrid
$170,000–$210,000
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
Senior Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)
Costa Mesa, CA · Reston, VA · +2 moreCosta Mesa, CA +3
$191,000–$254,000
$150,000–$300,000
$179,500–$203,500
Technical Commerce & AI Consultant | Agentic Commerce
Irvine, CA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreIrvine, CA +41
Pay not posted
Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)
Costa Mesa, CA · Reston, VA · +2 moreCosta Mesa, CA +3
$167,000–$222,000
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$99,000–$225,000
Snowflake Advanced AI Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · San Francisco, CA · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$54,400–$205,800
Pay not posted
$125,000–$175,000
Senior Software Engineer, Discovery
Costa Mesa, CA · Huntsville, AL · +4 moreCosta Mesa, CA +5
$191,000–$292,000
Google Agentic AI Delivery Specialist
Los Angeles, CA · Albany, NY · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$54,400–$196,000
Pay not posted
$100,000–$135,000
$191,000–$253,000
Google Agentic AI Delivery Senior Engineer
Los Angeles, CA · Albany, NY · +39 moreLos Angeles, CA +40
$80,400–$266,300
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$170,000–$270,000
$191,000–$253,000
$87,400–$293,800
$125,000–$175,000
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$166,000–$220,000
$200,000–$400,000
Principal AI Software Engineer, TechEx (US)
Los Angeles, CA · Boston, MA · +7 moreLos Angeles, CA +8
$152,200–$205,900
$130,000–$230,000
$220,000–$292,000
$191,000–$254,000
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
79 of 108 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs in Los Angeles serving external customers pay?
89 of 108 postings state a pay range. The median is $192,000, and half of them sit between $165,000 and $222,000, from 38 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs in Los Angeles serving external customers require?
Of 108 postings, 58 state a minimum number of years, from 30 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 26 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (20), under 3 years (8) or 10 or more years (4).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs in Los Angeles serving external customers?
These 108 postings come from 47 companies. The employers with the most postings are Accenture (19), Anduril (11), Field AI (4), First Resonance (4) and Nominal (4).
Are FDE and deployment jobs in Los Angeles serving external customers remote?
6 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 20 are hybrid and 33 are on-site. The remaining 49 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 72 of the 108 postings.
Counted over the 108 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