Senior Legal Engineer, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · Frisco, TX · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$102,200–$218,600
FDE salary for building what the customer runs in the San Francisco Bay Area
565 postings · 328 companies · 430 with pay · median $215,000 · middle half $184,000–$245,000 · 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
Mid
$109K$156K12 postingsSenior
$180K$243K337 postingsStaff+
$219K$266K64 postings
$225,000–$250,000
$140,000–$180,000
$185,000–$300,000
$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
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
San Francisco, CA · Frisco, TX · +7 moreSan Francisco, CA +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
$180,000–$250,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
San Francisco, CA · East Palo Alto, CA · +3 moreSan Francisco, CA +4On-site
$143,700–$223,600
$185,000–$300,000
Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 moreBerkeley, CA +2Remote
$182,000–$250,208
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$174,000–$252,000
All 430 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. The region is the whole Bay Area, not San Francisco alone.
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