> 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 by company size Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/company-size Median salary $193,000 a year across 2,434 jobs. Compare FDE salary by the employer's estimated headcount. **3,315** postings · **1,376** companies · **2,434** with pay · median **$193,000** · middle half $160,000–$225,000 · read Nov 8, 2026 ## Compare salary by company size ### About 1–50 people Median $180,000 Middle half $160,000–$220,000 [214 jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&size=1-50) · 149 companies ### About 51–200 people Median $202,000 Middle half $174,000–$235,000 [329 jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&size=51-200) · 162 companies ### About 201–1,000 people Median $200,000 Middle half $168,000–$243,000 [361 jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&size=201-1000) · 168 companies ### About 1,001–5,000 people Median $181,000 Middle half $150,000–$215,000 [355 jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&size=1001-5000) · 114 companies ### About 5,000+ people Median $200,000 Middle half $162,000–$229,000 [801 jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1&size=5001%2B) · 125 companies ### Not stated Median $176,000 Middle half $153,000–$210,000 374 jobs · 211 companies [Capgemini](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/capgemini) ### [Capgemini Invent, Senior Consultant, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/68750ea540ba8ddd) Houston, TX · New York, NY Yesterday $112,600–$212,700 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Legal Engineer, CoCounsel FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ef7a2e5d13b23d62) Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid Yesterday $102,200–$218,600 [Suki AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/suki-ai) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/12d765d673cd368d) Redwood City, CA Yesterday $225,000–$250,000 [Monte Carlo](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/monte-carlo) ### [Applied Forward Deployed Engineer (Post-Sales)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4593abbbddffbf3a) US Remote Yesterday $140,000–$180,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/20d2f37618650476) San Francisco, CA Hybrid Yesterday $185,000–$300,000 [Kraken](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kraken) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Client Solutions)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8948b7dff5b3ef4d) New York, NY Hybrid 2d ago $140,000–$220,000 [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/17886955cf8079ec) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2d ago $130,000–$215,000 [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 2d ago $207,000–$300,000 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f19e00cc711f7d8d) New York, NY Hybrid Yesterday $185,000–$300,000 [Ingram Micro](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ingram-micro) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2fdc34e1d9832ea5) Irvine, CA 2d ago $133,400–$226,800 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4062210d6364bfec) Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 more Hybrid 2d ago $118,400–$253,000 [jeffreym-consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jeffreym-consulting) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/160095c9c45ee8af) San Francisco, CA On-site 2d ago $180,000–$250,000 1,341 of these 2,434 jobs build what the customer runs. Company size is the employer's estimated headcount, not the size of the FDE team or the local office. It is also separate from company stage: a small company can be established, and a large one can be building a new function. Employer postings · Calculated from posted salary amounts · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) ## Related reading - [How to compare FDE job offers](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/compare-fde-offers)