Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise Context Layer, Agentic Data Cloud
Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WASunnyvale, CA +1
$174,000–$252,000
View job →Builds global consumer, ads, cloud, developer and AI platforms spanning Search, YouTube, Android, Workspace and Gemini.
Public · About 5,000+ people · Tech / AI / Cloud
34 postings, 21 new in the last 30 days21 metrosmedian of posted base ranges $219,000
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Google · US average
Travel
How often postings mention travel
18% · avg 40%
Well below average
Production code
Postings that involve writing production code
88% · avg 80%
Above average
Customer contact
Work done for people outside the company
91% · avg 86%
Above average
Pre-sales
Evaluation or proposal work before a deal
21% · avg 24%
About average
Seniority
Senior-level responsibility or above
97% · avg 94%
About average
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Google’s postings mention travel less often than the US average (18% vs 40%) and describe production code more often (88% vs 80%).
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Across 34 posted ranges, Google’s median sits above $188,000 for senior FDE postings in the US.
Posted base ranges in annual US dollars, from postings that state both ends, each counted at the middle of its range. Bonus, commission and equity are not counted. Compare pay across all Google postings →
Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WASunnyvale, CA +1
$174,000–$252,000
View job →Mountain View, CA · New York, NYMountain View, CA +1
$174,000–$232,000
View job →Mountain View, CA · Seattle, WAMountain View, CA +1
$152,000–$221,000
View job →Mountain View, CA · New York, NY · +2 moreMountain View, CA +3
$152,000–$221,000
View job →New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$262,000–$364,000
View job →San Diego, CA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreSan Diego, CA +5
$207,000–$300,000
View job →New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$207,000–$300,000
View job →San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +8 moreSan Francisco, CA +9
$207,000–$300,000
View job →$207,000–$300,000
View job →$207,000–$300,000
View job →$207,000–$300,000
View job →$207,000–$300,000
View job →$207,000–$300,000
View job →New York, NY · Austin, TX · +8 moreNew York, NY +9
$174,000–$252,000
View job →Seattle, WA · San Francisco, CA · +9 moreSeattle, WA +10
$207,000–$300,000
View job →Sunnyvale, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSunnyvale, CA +2
$98,000–$131,000
View job →Sunnyvale, CA · Kirkland, WASunnyvale, CA +1
$207,000–$300,000
View job →Kirkland, WA · Sunnyvale, CAKirkland, WA +1
$183,000–$265,000
View job →Mountain View, CA
$174,000–$252,000
View job →Chicago, IL · Austin, TX · +3 moreChicago, IL +4
$152,000–$221,000
View job →$138,000–$200,000
View job →Austin, TX
$127,000–$183,000
View job →$127,000–$182,000
View job →Austin, TX · Boulder, CO · +2 moreAustin, TX +3
$152,000–$221,000
View job →Mountain View, CA
$207,000–$300,000
View job →Integrates and configures it
New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +6 moreNew York, NY +7
$152,000–$221,000
View job →Builds for teams inside the company
San Bruno, CA · New York, NY · +1 moreSan Bruno, CA +2
$186,000–$269,000
View job →Integrates and configures it
Chicago, IL · Atlanta, GA · +6 moreChicago, IL +7
$183,000–$265,000
View job →Integrates and configures it
New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +6 moreNew York, NY +7
$233,000–$324,000
View job →Proves it works before the sale
New York, NY · Mountain View, CANew York, NY +1
$183,000–$265,000
View job →Integrates and configures it
Austin, TX · Atlanta, GA · +3 moreAustin, TX +4
$130,000–$187,000
View job →Integrates and configures it
Austin, TX · Atlanta, GA · +3 moreAustin, TX +4
$156,000–$226,000
View job →Builds for teams inside the company
Sunnyvale, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSunnyvale, CA +6
$152,000–$221,000
View job →Builds for teams inside the company
Boulder, CO · Austin, TX · +3 moreBoulder, CO +4
$152,000–$221,000
View job →25 of 34 build what the customer runs.
Compare these roles with pay ranges at other US FDE employers.
Google's FDE postings focus on taking AI products into customer production environments through Applied AI, partner, and GenMedia work.
Google Cloud and Applied AI postings describe production software in an external customer's environment. Applied AI work integrates Google AI products with enterprise infrastructure, builds evaluation and observability pipelines, and turns repeated deployment problems into reusable modules or product requests.
The partner role co-builds agentic workflows, debugs them, and develops delivery practices with a strategic partner. It names Python, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Gemini, MCP servers, LangGraph, CrewAI, ADK, vector databases, and RAG. The GenMedia posting covers multimodal video, image, and audio models, production AI applications, customer data and API integrations, security boundaries, creative tools, SDKs, and middleware.
Confirm whether the role owns customer delivery, partner engineering, product feedback, or internal platform work. Check the specific location, office policy, travel, production operations, and complete compensation terms in the employer posting. See US FDE research.
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