$112,600–$212,700
FDE salary for building what the customer runs
1,849 postings · 852 companies · 1,337 with pay · median $200,000 · middle half $163,000–$226,000 · read
These postings against the US
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
By responsibility level
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
$193K
Junior
$120K$150K13 postingsMid
$121K$164K46 postingsSenior
$165K$223K1,077 postingsStaff+
$205K$262K166 postings
Senior Legal Engineer, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$102,200–$218,600
$225,000–$250,000
$140,000–$180,000
$185,000–$300,000
$140,000–$220,000
$130,000–$215,000
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$207,000–$300,000
$185,000–$300,000
$133,400–$226,800
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$180,000–$250,000
All 1,337 of these jobs build what the customer runs.
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These postings write the production code that runs in the customer's own system, rather than selling it, configuring it or leading the team. Employers often call the job Forward Deployed Engineer or Forward Deployed Software Engineer. It is a different question from the coding filter: a posting here can spend most of its coding on production code, on prototypes or on configuration.
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