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FDE jobs across the US

38 postings from 30 employers, read for the kind of work, pay and travel each one describes.

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LocationSF Bay Area

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Pay$210,000+

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38 jobs

Scale AIInternal deployment & tooling

Software Engineer, ARC Team

San Francisco, CA · Saint Louis, MO · +2 moreSan Francisco, CA +3Hybrid

$138,000–$259,440

Periodic LabsInternal deployment & tooling

Product Engineer

Menlo Park, CA · San Francisco, CAMenlo Park, CA +1On-site

$250,000–$350,000

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Frequently asked questions

What do FDE jobs pay?

38 of 38 postings state a pay range. The median is $240,000, and half of them sit between $206,000 and $274,000, across 30 companies.

How much experience do FDE jobs require?

Of 38 postings, 14 state a minimum number of years, from 13 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 7 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (6) or 10 or more years (1).

Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?

These 38 postings come from 30 companies. The employers with the most postings are NVIDIA (4), OpenAI (3), Afresh (2), Anthropic (2) and Scale AI (2).

Are FDE jobs remote?

6 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 12 are hybrid and 8 are on-site. The remaining 12 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 10 of the 38 postings.

Counted over the 38 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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