$190,000–$230,000
Forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs in the US
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3,311 postings · 1,373 companies · 2,431 with pay · median $193,000 · middle half $162,000–$225,000 · read
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True AnomalyBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Platform Engineer, AI
Denver, CO · Long Beach, CADenver, CO +1Hybrid
$225,000–$325,000
Retell AIBuilds for teams inside the company
Founders Initiatives, Technical Ex-Founders
Redwood City, CAOn-site
$180,000–$300,000
$130,000–$190,000
$127,400–$182,000
Texas InstrumentsBuilds for teams inside the company
Workflow Automation Engineer | GenAI Focused
Dallas, TX
Pay not posted
$157,000–$183,000
EquinixBuilds for teams inside the company
GTM Engineer: Customer Experience & Lifecycle
Dallas, TX · Redwood City, CA · +3 moreDallas, TX +4
$136,000–$245,000
$146,370–$221,400
Bot AutoBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Software Engineer, Fleet Mission Control
Houston, TX
Pay not posted
$148,700–$298,800
EquinixBuilds for teams inside the company
GTM Engineer: Pipeline and Revenue Generation
Dallas, TX · Redwood City, CA · +3 moreDallas, TX +4
$131,000–$245,000
DatabricksBuilds for teams inside the company
Staff Fullstack Engineer, Agentic Applications
Mountain View, CA
$192,000–$260,000
$143,000–$210,000
$136,000–$264,500
$120,000–$150,000
SalesforceBuilds for teams inside the company
Partner Technical Architect - Agentforce
Chicago, IL · New York, NY · +2 moreChicago, IL +3
$172,500–$285,800
$164,000–$193,000
$195,000–$229,000
$200,000–$230,000
Pay not posted
$250,000–$400,000
$347,000–$445,000
$220,000–$290,000
T-MobileBuilds for teams inside the company
Sr Engineer, Enterprise AI
Bellevue, WA · Frisco, TXBellevue, WA +1
$133,100–$240,100
$150,000–$190,000
Pay not posted
$194,600–$293,900
$150,000–$210,000
$180,000–$200,000
$150,000–$220,000
Pay not posted
Carnegie Mellon UniversityBuilds for teams inside the company
AI Solutions Architect - Computing Services
Pittsburgh, PA
Pay not posted
$220,000–$350,000
$160,000–$200,000
Faraday FutureBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior AI & Business Operations Engineer
El Segundo, CA
$130,000–$150,000
$185,000–$315,000 · OTE
$280,000–$410,000
CommureBuilds for teams inside the company
Senior Operations Manager, Infrastructure
Mountain View, CAOn-site
$120,000–$160,000
1,855 of these 3,311 jobs build what the customer runs.
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Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs pay?
2,431 of 3,311 postings state a pay range. The median is $193,000, and half of them sit between $162,000 and $225,000, from 922 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs require?
Of 3,311 postings, 1,946 state a minimum number of years, from 944 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 1,031 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (542), under 3 years (231) or 10 or more years (142).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?
These 3,311 postings come from 1,373 companies. The employers with the most postings are Amazon (incl AWS) (85), Deloitte US (79), Databricks (72), Palantir (70) and OpenAI (53).
Are FDE jobs remote?
699 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 805 are hybrid and 839 are on-site. The remaining 968 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 1,398 of the 3,311 postings.
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