$130,000–$195,000
Forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs in the US
1,210 postings · 500 companies · median $200,000, half $170,000–$230,000
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$140,000–$300,000
$184,000–$356,500
$122,000–$240,500
$160,000–$180,000
$108,600–$280,000
$152,000–$287,500
$128,000–$252,500
$167,700–$245,200
$88,300–$227,600
$184,000–$356,500
$128,000–$252,500
$110,000–$150,000
$88,300–$227,600
Sr. Managing Consultant/Managing Consultant AI Architect - Financial Services Operations & Technology
New York, NY · Chicago, IL · +3 moreNew York, NY +4
$158,000–$210,000
$180,000–$220,000
$207,000–$300,000
$107,300–$150,180
$130,420–$215,300
$150,400–$277,600
$200,000–$350,000
$160,000–$230,000
AI Customer and Partner Solutions Engineer, Cloud Applied AI
Kirkland, WA · Sunnyvale, CAKirkland, WA +1
$183,000–$265,000
$141,200–$278,300
$171,900–$300,800
$180,000–$230,000
Lead Software Engineer, AI Labs (Product and Customer Facing)
San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +1 moreSan Francisco, CA +2
$148,500–$344,700
$119,800–$261,000
$125,000–$140,000
$180,000–$230,000
$113,200–$237,800
$160,000–$190,000
$239,900–$359,900
$188,000–$242,000
$112,800–$257,000
$166,500–$291,400
$174,000–$252,000
Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery
San Francisco, CA · New York, NYSan Francisco, CA +1Hybrid
$200,000–$250,000
$195,000–$250,000
Avathon (formerly SparkCognition)
Engineering Lead, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM)
Pleasanton, CAOn-site
$160,000–$220,000
672 of 1,210 build what the customer runs.
Frequently asked questions
What do FDE jobs pay?
1,210 of 1,210 postings state a pay range. The median is $200,000, and half of them sit between $170,000 and $230,000, from 500 companies.
How much experience do FDE jobs require?
Of 1,210 postings, 796 state a minimum number of years, from 367 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 366 of them. The rest ask for 6 to 9 years (318), 10 or more years (71) or under 3 years (41).
Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs?
These 1,210 postings come from 500 companies. The employers with the most postings are Deloitte US (114), Databricks (67), Amazon (incl AWS) (39), Accenture (22) and OpenAI (22).
Are FDE jobs remote?
210 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 314 are hybrid and 211 are on-site. The remaining 475 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 584 of the 1,210 postings.
Counted over the 1,210 postings in this search. Postings read on October 25, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey.
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