$81,720–$161,760
FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area serving external customers
167 postings · 62 companies · 152 state pay: median $198,000, half $179,000–$215,000
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$80,400–$316,300
Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer -Assoc Director
Seattle, WA · Chicago, IL · +39 moreSeattle, WA +40
$138,800–$434,000
$146,000–$204,000
$77,000–$202,000
Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Federal
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VASeattle, WA +1Remote
$180,000–$240,000
Senior/Staff Full Stack Software Engineer, Federal
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VASeattle, WA +1Remote
$180,000–$240,000
$146,000–$204,000
ML Ops DSX Senior Engineer
Seattle, WA · Santa Clara, CA · US remoteSeattle, WA +1 · US remoteRemote
$184,000–$356,500
Pay not posted
$54,400–$196,000
$132,000–$184,000
From $92,250
Senior Machine Learning Engineer–Field Engagement
Seattle, WA · Washington, DCSeattle, WA +1Hybrid
$160,000–$200,000
$80,400–$266,300
$140,000–$300,000
Sr. Enterprise Architect - Agentforce for Operations
Seattle, WA · Chicago, IL · +4 moreSeattle, WA +5
$148,500–$285,800
$207,000–$300,000
Technical Commerce & AI Consultant | Agentic Commerce
Seattle, WA · Chicago, IL · +40 moreSeattle, WA +41
Pay not posted
$126,000–$248,000
Senior Software Engineer, Security Services and Observability, Amazon Web Services
Seattle, WA · Irvine, CA · +1 moreSeattle, WA +2On-site
$168,100–$227,400
AI Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloud Applied AI
Kirkland, WA · Sunnyvale, CAKirkland, WA +1
$183,000–$265,000
$117,200–$246,000
Senior Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)
Seattle, WA · Costa Mesa, CA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$191,000–$254,000
Sr. Delivery Consultant - AI/ML, WWPS ProServe
Seattle, WA · Jersey City, NJ · +6 moreSeattle, WA +7
$153,600–$239,000
Pay not posted
$172,500–$285,800
Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)
Seattle, WA · Costa Mesa, CA · +2 moreSeattle, WA +3
$167,000–$222,000
$118,000–$176,000
$179,500–$203,500
Software Engineering, AI Systems (SMTS)
Bellevue, WA · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreBellevue, WA +2
$148,500–$246,000
$54,400–$205,800
$130,000–$185,000
Pay not posted
$90,000–$125,000
$105,910–$160,200
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)
Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreSeattle, WA +2
$265,000–$331,000
Integration Engineer, Professional Services
Seattle, WA · New York, NY · US remoteSeattle, WA +1 · US remoteRemote
$190,400–$285,600
$185,000–$230,000
$191,000–$292,000
137 of 167 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area serving external customers pay?
152 of 167 postings state a pay range. The median is $198,000, and half of them sit between $179,000 and $215,000, from 49 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area serving external customers require?
Of 167 postings, 118 state a minimum number of years, from 45 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 74 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (31), 10 or more years (9) or under 3 years (4).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area serving external customers?
These 167 postings come from 62 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (37), Accenture (20), Google (8), Salesforce (8) and Scale AI (8).
Are FDE and deployment jobs in Seattle area serving external customers remote?
17 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 29 are hybrid and 13 are on-site. The remaining 108 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 110 of the 167 postings.
Counted over the 167 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