$160,000–$210,000
Forward Deployed Engineer
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$118,100–$202,730USRemoteSenior
Leads and scales an AI-enabled SDLC practice for regulated-industry clients, combining enterprise architecture, platform engineering, practice leadership, and client delivery.
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At a glance
Posted base pay
$118K–$203KBelow the median
Median $225K
This job$118K–$203KTypical staff+ FDE payMiddle 50% of 429 postings$194K–$260KThe work
Integrates and configures it
Balance
- Mostly building
- Mixed
- Mostly pre-sales or support
Project stages
- Pre-sales
- Proof of concept
- Implementation
- Operations (not covered)
Travel Required, amount not stated
- Coding
- Writes production code
- Builds for
- Both
- Level
- Staff+
- Role
- Technical lead
What they ask for
Experience
Background
Tools
Less common in FDE jobs
- Who you build for: Both9%
- Responsibility level: Staff+16%
- Covers pre-sales24%
- Fully remote29%
Share of US FDE postings that state each fact.
What you’ll do
- Build and scale the AI SDLC offering and lead its technical practice.
- Design cloud-agnostic enterprise AI platforms, reference architectures, and governance frameworks.
- Translate regulatory requirements into engineering patterns and controls.
- Deliver platform MVPs and architectural proofs of concept with small teams.
What you’ll bring
- 10+ years in software development, engineering, or technology consulting.
- 5+ years of leadership experience.
- Hands-on experience designing and building agentic solutions and prompt engineering.
- Deep knowledge of SDLC, DevOps, AWS/Azure/GCP, and AI/ML technologies including LLMs and RAG.
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