$155,600–$306,800
FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales with significant travel
221 postings · 93 companies · 182 state pay: median $200,000, half $158,000–$231,000
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Cyber Identity - FDE Senior Consultant - Senior Engineering Management Specialist
Multiple US offices
$134,500–$265,100
$155,600–$306,800
$155,600–$306,800
$135,000–$220,000
$145,000–$160,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$230,000
$80,400–$266,300
Senior Machine Learning Engineer–Field Engagement
Washington, DC · Seattle, WAWashington, DC +1Hybrid
$160,000–$200,000
$150,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$220,000
Staff Applied AI Engineer - Enterprise AI Solutions
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
$230,000–$360,000
$197,300–$394,600
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$144,900–$302,100
Pay not posted
$130,000–$185,000
Pay not posted
$104,800–$218,500
Pay not posted
$138,000–$170,000
$54,400–$196,000
$225,000–$304,200
$180,000–$245,000
$150,000–$215,000
Google Agentic AI Delivery Senior Engineer
Albany, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +39 moreAlbany, NY +40
$80,400–$266,300
$152,000–$318,000
$130,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
OpenAIPlans what the customer deploys first
Deployment Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) - Platform
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$207,000–$294,000
CogniteProves it works before the sale
Senior Field Engineer (Pre-Sales/Forward Deployed)
Houston, TX · US remoteRemote
Pay not posted
$90,000–$160,000
Deloitte USLeads the deployment team
Lead Forward Deployed Engineer, Frontier GenAI
Multiple US offices
$189,200–$372,900
$115,000–$200,000
$215,000–$285,000
Cognition AIKeeps customers running after launch
Forward Deployed Engineer - US
San Francisco, CAOn-site
Pay not posted
112 of 221 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales with significant travel pay?
182 of 221 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $158,000 and $231,000, from 68 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales with significant travel require?
Of 221 postings, 134 state a minimum number of years, from 66 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 73 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (34), 10 or more years (14) or under 3 years (13).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales with significant travel?
These 221 postings come from 93 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (43), Palantir (28), OpenAI (10), Accenture (6) and Rivet Industries (6).
Are FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales with significant travel remote?
56 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 54 are hybrid and 43 are on-site. The remaining 68 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 221 of the 221 postings.
Counted over the 221 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. Travel is the share the posting states. Postings that never mention travel are left out. · How we read postings