> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # From consulting to FDE Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/consulting Decide which client delivery work counts as engineering evidence, and what to build before you apply. **310** of **2,512** postings ask for consulting · **201** companies · 223 state pay: median **$181,000**, half $160,000–$212,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 Published September 22, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 Stated in the posting ## 265 of these 310 postings state a minimum number of years, most often 3–5 years. Share of those 265. How many years do postings asking for consulting want? 0–2 years 12.8%, 3–5 years 54.3%, 6–9 years 23.8%, 10+ years 9.1%. - 0–2 years 34 postings · 12.8% - 3–5 years 144 postings · 54.3% - 6–9 years 63 postings · 23.8% - 10+ years 24 postings · 9.1% 45 postings state no number. The minimum number of years each posting states. A posting that gives no number is not a posting that wants none. Our reading of the posting ## 103 of these 310 postings plan what the customer deploys first. What work do postings asking for consulting describe? Plans what the customer deploys first 33.2%, Builds what the customer runs 28.7%, Integrates and configures it 24.8%, Builds for teams inside the company 4.5%, Leads the deployment team 3.5%, Proves it works before the sale 3.2%, Keeps customers running after launch 1.9%. - Plans what the customer deploys first 103 postings · 33.2% - Builds what the customer runs 89 postings · 28.7% - Integrates and configures it 77 postings · 24.8% - Builds for teams inside the company 14 postings · 4.5% - Leads the deployment team 11 postings · 3.5% - Proves it works before the sale 10 postings · 3.2% - Keeps customers running after launch 6 postings · 1.9% What an employer asks you to arrive with and what the job turns out to be are two readings of one posting, and they disagree constantly. The guide below is about the first. This bar is the second. [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7460c510f62762db) San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more New · Today $207,000–$300,000 [Ingram Micro](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ingram-micro) Builds what the customer runs ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2fdc34e1d9832ea5) Irvine, CA New · Today $133,400–$226,800 [SAS Institute Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sas-institute-inc) Builds what the customer runs ### [Senior Forward Deployed Solutions Architect, Large Pharma](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4c789e2f61e7b01f) NJ · US remote Remote New · Today $136,948–$167,380 [monday.com](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/monday-com) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/864fb4ccff3c2067) Denver, CO Hybrid New · 2d ago $140,000–$170,000 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82606f0a46009d9d) San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more New · Today $174,000–$252,000 [Clarasight](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clarasight) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2111cdfde3fc14b6) US Remote New · 2d ago Pay not posted [Capgemini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capgemini) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a35ecfbfba75460a) Hartford, CT Hybrid New · 6d ago $85,000–$95,000 [Sayari](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sayari) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer II (Remote, US) ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9f4bb795c063c4e6) US Remote 10d ago $160,000–$180,000 [RevStar](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/revstar) Builds what the customer runs ### [Data & AI Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c926f78a721d5698) AZ, DC, FL Remote 13d ago Pay not posted [Ocrolus](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ocrolus) Builds what the customer runs ### [Mortgage Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ccfc8a6901548790) US Remote 3w ago $150,000–$170,000 [Ingram Micro](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ingram-micro) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Microsoft AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3539eaceeef29b37) Irvine, CA 4w ago $133,400–$226,800 [Dryft](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dryft) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/731b4e96e4cfa35f) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted [RevStar](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/revstar) Builds what the customer runs ### [Data & AI Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/083f74d4fc6d4d72) AZ, DC, FL Remote 13d ago Pay not posted [alliant](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alliant) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d481950a10f5d32a) Houston, TX 4w ago Pay not posted [First Resonance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/first-resonance) Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1dda61a93727c155) Los Angeles, CA On-site 5w ago $150,000–$190,000 Showing 15 of 310 matching postings. [Open the full search and adjust filters →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?background=consulting) - Your strongest evidence is a client system that went live and stayed live, not the deck that won the engagement. - Employers reading a consulting resume look for what you built yourself, so name the code, the data model and the release you owned. - Say which parts of the delivery your team owned and which the client owned, because a reader cannot tell from a project name. - Ask whether the FDE role ends at a recommendation or carries a production system, because both exist under the same title. - Bring one example where the standard approach failed and you changed it with the client in the room. ## What a consulting record already proves Consulting work gives you things FDE teams struggle to hire for: - entering an organisation you did not design and working out how it really runs - agreeing a scope with people whose incentives differ - working to a date with a client watching - explaining a technical trade-off to someone who will sign for it - handing something over so another team can run it Those parts of forward deployed work have nothing to do with a language or a framework, and they are the parts that take longest to learn on the job. ## The gap a hiring team reads for A consulting title tells a reader nothing about who wrote the code. Two people with the same engagement on their record can be the person who designed the data model and the person who ran the steering meeting, and the posting is hiring one of them. So make the boundary explicit for one project: the systems you touched, the code you wrote, the tests you ran, the release you were on the call for, and what you fixed afterwards. Where an offshore or client team built it, say so and say what you decided instead. ## How to write the delivery story > Led a digital transformation for a global insurer. That sentence survives a partner review and fails an engineering screen. [Replace it with the work](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-resume-guide): > Mapped the claims workflow with the operations team, wrote the Python service that moved claims into the new system, ran the acceptance tests with the client's engineers, and supported the first month in production. Keep the client's problem, the decision, the thing you built, and what happened after it shipped. Drop the engagement name and the methodology. ## Five questions for the team - Does this role write the production code, or specify it for someone else? - Who owns the system after the client goes live? - How much of the year is spent on one account against many? - Is the output meant to become part of the product, or to stay with the client? - What does the team expect a consultant to be slowest at, and how do they support it? ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE and deployment jobs asking for consulting experience pay? 223 of 310 postings state a pay range. The median is $181,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $212,000, from 141 companies. ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs asking for consulting experience? These 310 postings come from 201 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) (12), [Aircall](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aircall) (7), [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) (7), [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) (7) and [Appian](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/appian) (6). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs asking for consulting experience remote? 68 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 88 are hybrid and 68 are on-site. The remaining 86 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 148 of the 310 postings. Counted over the 310 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Counted over the postings that state what experience they want. A posting that states none, or that asks for experience outside the five we list, is in none of them. · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related reading - [How to describe FDE experience on your resume](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-resume-guide) - [Portfolio projects that show FDE work](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-portfolio-projects) ## Guides for other backgrounds - [From software engineering to FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/backend-engineer) - [From solutions and customer engineering to FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/solutions-engineer) - [From implementation and data engineering to FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/implementation-data-engineer) - [Choosing your next FDE role](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/forward-deployed-engineer)