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San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · US remoteSan Francisco, CA +1 · US remoteRemote
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FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams
21 postings · 20 companies · 17 state pay: median $224,000, half $185,000–$296,000
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Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, Life Sciences
San Francisco, CA · Cambridge, MASan Francisco, CA +1
$192,000–$256,000
Pay not posted
Senior Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Mountain View, CA · Boston, MA · +4 moreMountain View, CA +5
$175,100–$247,600
$140,000–$160,000
$125,000–$175,000
$140,000–$200,000
Pay not posted
Pay not posted
$207,000–$385,000
$250,000–$400,000
$180,000–$300,000
$194,600–$293,900
$120,000–$160,000
$266,000–$445,000
Software Engineer, ARC Team
San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3Hybrid
$138,000–$259,440
$160,000–$500,000
Support Engineer, AI Infrastructure & Tooling
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Remote
$169,000–$245,000
$200,000–$350,000
$250,000–$350,000
$150,000–$220,000
All 21 build for teams inside the company.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams pay?
17 of 21 postings state a pay range. The median is $224,000, and half of them sit between $185,000 and $296,000, from 16 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams require?
Of 21 postings, 12 state a minimum number of years, from 11 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 6 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (4), 6 to 9 years (1) or 10 or more years (1).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams?
These 21 postings come from 20 companies. The employers with the most postings are OpenAI (2), Amazon (incl AWS) (1), Apple (1), Bertram Capital (1) and Ciridae (1).
Are FDE jobs that build for teams inside the company in SF Bay Area serving external customers and internal teams remote?
2 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 2 are hybrid and 9 are on-site. The remaining 8 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 3 of the 21 postings.
Counted over the 21 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