$310,000–$500,000
FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers
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Ode with AnthropicProduction engineering
Staff Software Engineer (SF/NY)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$275,000–$400,000
AnthropicProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise Tech
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2Hybrid
$200,000–$320,000
Snorkel AIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Federal - Top Secret Clearance
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · US remoteNew York, NY +1 · US remoteRemote
$170,000–$300,000 · OTE
OpenAIProduction engineering
Applied AI Engineer, Startups
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$211,000–$278,000
LangChainProduction engineering
Deployed Architect, Professional Services (San Francisco)
San Francisco, CAOn-site
$170,000–$215,000
Scale AIProduction engineering
Infrastructure Software Engineer, Enterprise GenAI
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1
$179,400–$224,250
$180,000–$210,000
$100,000–$300,000
$152,000–$241,500
Scale AIProduction engineering
Senior Software Engineer, Public Sector
San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3On-site
$162,400–$311,000
LiberateProduction engineering
Staff AI Agent Engineer
Boston, MA · San Francisco, CABoston, MA +1Hybrid
Pay not posted
$160,000–$500,000
Pay not posted
$200,000–$325,000
LiberateProduction engineering
Staff AI Agent Engineer
Boston, MA · San Francisco, CABoston, MA +1Hybrid
Pay not posted
$200,000–$400,000
Liquid AIProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied (Audio)
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
SiftProduction engineering
Application Software Engineer
Marina Del Rey, CA · San Francisco, CAMarina Del Rey, CA +1Hybrid
$125,000–$175,000
Pay not posted
$180,000–$390,000
$150,000–$250,000
Pay not posted
FriendliAIProduction engineering
Solutions Architect - AI Inference Specialist
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
Liquid AIProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
Brain Co.Production engineering
Early Career Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
$175,000–$230,000
$180,000–$250,000
$215,000–$300,000
$200,000–$320,000
$180,000–$225,000
OpenAIProduction engineering
Full Stack Software Engineer, Gov
Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA · +1 moreWashington, DC +2Hybrid
$207,000–$385,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
UncountableProduction engineering
Software Engineer, Implementations
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Remote
$90,000–$110,000
$180,000–$390,000
$175,000–$225,000
Pay not posted
Ode with AnthropicProduction engineering
Bring Your Own Engineering Team
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
Pay not posted
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers pay?
425 of 530 postings state a pay range. The median is $216,000, and half of them sit between $183,000 and $250,000, across 176 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers require?
Of 530 postings, 192 state a minimum number of years, from 110 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 96 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (51), under 3 years (29) or 10 or more years (16).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers?
These 530 postings come from 225 companies. The employers with the most postings are Sierra (20), Accenture (19), OpenAI (19), NVIDIA (15) and Scale AI (13).
Are FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area serving external customers remote?
54 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 175 are hybrid and 178 are on-site. The remaining 123 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 208 of the 530 postings.
Counted over the 530 postings in this search. Postings read on September 18, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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