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SpaceXProduction engineering
Mission Integration Engineer, AI (Starshield) - Top Secret Clearance
Hawthorne, CA
$100,000–$135,000
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$120,000–$200,000
$112,800–$257,000
Pay not posted
$124,900–$228,900
Pay not posted
$135,000–$230,000
PendoProduction engineering
Sr. Professional Services Engineer Consultant
Raleigh, NC · San Francisco, CARaleigh, NC +1Remote
$132,200–$175,000
Pay not posted
$100,000–$225,000
$125,000–$220,000
Handshake (AI training)Production engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise AI
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$155,000–$300,000
SalesforceProduction engineering
Sr. Enterprise Architect, Agentforce Supply Chain
San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WASan Francisco, CA +1
$150,100–$247,900
BCGProduction engineering
BCG Platinion | Lead AI Tech Architect - AI Platforms
Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +16 moreAtlanta, GA +17
$190,000
$220,000–$350,000
$140,000–$190,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Staff Frontier Agents Engineer
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$288,000–$360,000
BCGProduction engineering
BCG Platinion | Senior AI Tech Architect - AI Platforms
Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +16 moreAtlanta, GA +17
$150,000
$220,000–$350,000
$215,000–$300,000
$99,000–$225,000
$175,000–$230,000
$140,000–$200,000
$215,000–$300,000
AccentureProduction engineering
Advanced AI Architect
Morristown, NJ · Milwaukee, WI · +39 moreMorristown, NJ +40
$87,400–$293,800
$166,000–$220,000
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What do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers pay?
1,316 of 1,689 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $230,000, across 385 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers require?
Of 1,689 postings, 671 state a minimum number of years, from 290 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 319 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (226), under 3 years (76) or 10 or more years (50).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs serving external customers?
These 1,689 postings come from 531 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?
300 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 420 are hybrid and 406 are on-site. The remaining 563 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 796 of the 1,689 postings.
Counted over the 1,689 postings in this search. Postings read on September 20, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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