DatabricksProduction engineering
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
Chicago, IL
$182,000–$250,208
707 postings from 237 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.
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DatabricksProduction engineering
Chicago, IL
$182,000–$250,208
$175,000–$240,000 · OTE
$175,000–$250,000
$185,000–$275,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
$190,000–$280,000
$180,000–$400,000
$165,000–$330,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
$170,000–$280,000
DatabricksProduction engineering
Washington, DC
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Denver, CO
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Mountain View, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Raleigh, NC
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
New York, NY
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Boston, MA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Chicago, ILRemote
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Dallas, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Austin, TX
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Atlanta, GA
$182,000–$250,208
DatabricksProduction engineering
Philadelphia, PA
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$182,000–$250,208
$166,500–$291,400
$150,000–$250,000
$144,900–$302,100
$191,000–$253,000
$149,800–$262,200
$207,000–$300,000
$120,000–$240,000
$191,000–$253,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Honolulu, HI · +1 moreDenver, CO +2
$235,200–$294,000
$150,000–$250,000
$200,000–$240,000
$215,000–$260,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Denver, CO · Washington, DCDenver, CO +1
$274,400–$343,000
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707 of 707 postings state a pay range. The median is $230,000, and half of them sit between $216,000 and $258,000, across 237 companies.
Of 707 postings, 303 state a minimum number of years, from 128 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 130 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (128), 10 or more years (32) or under 3 years (13).
These 707 postings come from 237 companies. The employers with the most postings are Databricks (65), OpenAI (39), Anduril (26), NVIDIA (26) and Google (23).
105 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 193 are hybrid and 149 are on-site. The remaining 260 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 300 of the 707 postings.
Counted over the 707 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.