$150,000–$250,000 · OTE
FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers
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578 jobs
$180,000–$245,000
Pay not posted
NominalProduction engineering
Software Engineer, Mission Dev - U.S. Government
New York, NY · Washington, DCNew York, NY +1
$150,000–$215,000
Pay not posted
Liquid AIProduction engineering
Member of Technical Staff - Post Training, Applied
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
FriendliAIProduction engineering
Solutions Architect - AI Inference Specialist
San Francisco, CAHybrid
Pay not posted
$265,000–$265,000
$240,000–$280,000
$145,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
NominalProduction engineering
Software Engineer - Mission Dev
New York, NY · Los Angeles, CA · +1 moreNew York, NY +2
$130,000–$230,000
GoogleImplementation & delivery
AI Outcome Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering
New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +4 moreNew York, NY +5
$152,000–$221,000
AccentureDeployment team leadership
Forward Deployed Engineer - Lead
San Francisco, CA · Walnut Creek, CA · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$163,000–$434,000
Pay not posted
Thomson ReutersDeployment team leadership
Director, Forward Deployed Solutions (AI)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +4 moreNew York, NY +5Hybrid
$137,200–$293,500
$115,520–$198,360
$125,000–$200,000
GoogleDeployment team leadership
Forward Deployed Engineer Manager, Applied AI, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Chicago, IL · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3
$262,000–$364,000
Amazon (incl AWS)Deployment team leadership
Director, Product Management — Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE)
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +1 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +2
$237,500–$350,000
DatabricksDeployment strategy
Sr. Engagement Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering - Financial Services
US · city not listed
$115,800–$199,100
$126,200–$212,754
CloudflareDeployment team leadership
Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering
Austin, TX · New York, NY · +1 moreAustin, TX +2Hybrid
$234,000–$310,000
$199,800–$222,000
DatabricksDeployment team leadership
Sr. Manager, AI Forward Deployed Engineering (AI FDE)
US · city not listed
$232,900–$320,200
$180,000–$250,000
C3.aiDeployment team leadership
Senior Director, Forward Deployed Engineering, Americas
Redwood City, CAOn-site
$250,000–$350,000
Pay not posted
Deloitte USTechnical pre-sales
ConvergeHEALTH Life Sciences - Product Forward Deployed Engineer - Innovation_Delivery_Transformation
Multiple US offices
$105,400–$207,800
$180,000–$250,000
$210,000–$300,000
Pay not posted
$110,800–$177,300
ChalkDeployment team leadership
Director, Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1On-site
$300,000–$350,000
$190,000–$230,000 · OTE
$90,000–$160,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
GoogleImplementation & delivery
AI Outcome Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering
Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +2 moreChicago, IL +3
$183,000–$265,000
CapgeminiDeployment team leadership
Capgemini Invent -Forward Deployed Engineer Managing Consultant
Chicago, IL
$127,500–$249,350
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers pay?
463 of 578 postings state a pay range. The median is $210,000, and half of them sit between $170,000 and $237,000, across 192 companies.
How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers require?
Of 578 postings, 243 state a minimum number of years, from 131 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 125 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (76), 10 or more years (24) or under 3 years (18).
Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers?
These 578 postings come from 259 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (43), LangChain (16), Databricks (15), OpenAI (15) and Amazon (incl AWS) (12).
Are FDE and deployment jobs involving pre-sales serving external customers remote?
124 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 165 are hybrid and 133 are on-site. The remaining 156 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 288 of the 578 postings.
Counted over the 578 postings in this search. Postings read on September 19, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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