> 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.

# FDE salary in Chicago

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/chicagoland

Median salary $175,000 a year across 177 jobs. See what Chicago-area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range.

**188** postings · **74** companies · 177 state pay: median **$175,000**, half $145,000–$198,000

Postings read on November 6, 2026

Published September 21, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [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

[Enlighten AI Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/enlighten-ai-labs)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4962de95ccbeec75)

Chicago, IL New · 2d ago

$175,000–$220,000

[Accordion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accordion)

### [Senior Consultant CPM (Forward Deployed Engineer)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b41f70d45f77df0a)

Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +1 more Hybrid New · 2d ago

$95,000–$140,000

[Endeavor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/endeavor)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d9b832dd64d37c26)

Chicago, IL On-site New · 3d ago

$150,000–$180,000

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82606f0a46009d9d)

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more New · Yesterday

$174,000–$252,000

[Enlighten AI Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/enlighten-ai-labs)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5ed9e8e8098a61db)

Chicago, IL New · 2d ago

$135,000–$175,000

[Intercom](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/intercom)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/43e74ff97f9abf5c)

Chicago, IL Hybrid 7d ago

$160,000–$213,300

[Zebra Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zebra-technologies)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Customer Facing](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4d7625b7fb387e81)

Holtsville, NY · Lincolnshire, IL Hybrid 9d ago

$96,800–$145,200

[CrossCountry Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crosscountry-consulting)

### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Recent Graduate) - Chicago](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/41a0b6e3ff27d353)

Chicago, IL Hybrid 10d ago

$95,000–$125,000

[Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/202e5a48c009cc01)

New York, NY · Charlotte, NC · +7 more Hybrid 13d ago

$130,600–$147,000

[PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us)

### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer-Palantir Foundry-Senior Associate](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8f2f106eae6e8759)

Chicago, IL · Raleigh, NC · +57 more Hybrid 2w ago

$77,000–$202,000

[Capgemini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capgemini)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/58064b0e4c8c6cc9)

Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +1 more 2w ago

$130,000–$180,000

126 of 188 build what the customer runs.

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See what Chicago-area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range.

Chicago here is the Chicagoland metro area, not the city alone.

Employer postings · Calculated from posted salary amounts · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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