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389 postings · 226 companies · median $225,000 · middle half $197,000–$262,000 · read
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$168,100–$261,500
$124,646–$168,272
Staff Software Engineer / Architect - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · Ann Arbor, MI · +1 moreFrisco, TX +2Hybrid
$137,100–$254,700
$143,640–$273,000
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4
$168,100–$261,500
$97,860–$316,750
$175,000–$200,000
AI Engineer - FDE Software Engineering Sr. Manager
New York, NY · Milwaukee, WI · +40 moreNew York, NY +41
$112,900–$302,400
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$200,000–$250,000
$185,000–$300,000
$172,500–$260,100
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Boston, MA · Bellevue, WA · +4 moreBoston, MA +5On-site
$168,100–$261,500
$194,000–$266,000
$215,100–$384,400
Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$180,000–$320,000
$142,800–$304,200
$153,000–$376,000
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer, Team Lead
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$190,000–$270,000
$250,000–$315,000
$177,375–$209,625
$180,000–$240,000
$168,912–$253,368
$300,000–$350,000
$240,000–$300,000
Sr Software Development Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Seattle, WA · Arlington, VA · +1 moreSeattle, WA +2
$168,100–$250,200
$180,000–$250,000
$200,000–$270,000
$310,000–$350,000
Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering)
San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$252,000–$315,000
$220,000–$239,000
$240,000–$290,000
$200,000–$225,000
Principal Backend Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$250,000–$300,000
$220,000–$239,000
Staff Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)
New York, NY · San Francisco, CANew York, NY +1Hybrid
$210,000–$300,000
Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA · +1 moreArlington, VA +2
$200,100–$270,600
$189,200–$372,900
167 of these 389 jobs build what the customer runs.
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What do FDE jobs pay?
389 of 389 postings state a pay range. The median is $225,000, and half of them sit between $197,000 and $262,000, from 226 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs require?
Of 389 postings, 286 state a minimum number of years, from 173 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 147 of them. The rest ask for 10 or more years (72), 3 to 5 years (64) or under 3 years (3).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?
These 389 postings come from 226 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (22), Deloitte US (9), OpenAI (8), ServiceNow (8) and Snowflake (6).
Are FDE jobs remote?
80 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 117 are hybrid and 56 are on-site. The remaining 136 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 159 of the 389 postings.
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