> 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 Los Angeles Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/greater-la Median salary $191,000 a year across 145 jobs. See what Los Angeles-area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range. **167** postings · **73** companies · 145 state pay: median **$191,000**, half $160,000–$222,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 Published September 21, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Ingram Micro](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ingram-micro) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2fdc34e1d9832ea5) Irvine, CA New · Today $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 New · Today $118,400–$253,000 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9b4e3e1ddbd6438d) Los Angeles, CA Hybrid 8d ago $200,000–$250,000 [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 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/780f6825731d9f9e) Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +4 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 [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 [SalesPatriot](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salespatriot) ### [Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e269756eb6cb8219) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +2 more On-site 3w ago $150,000–$220,000 [Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/119cfd8fc34ca0bd) Charlotte, NC · New York, NY · +6 more Hybrid 13d ago $117,000–$132,000 [Ingram Micro](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ingram-micro) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Microsoft AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3539eaceeef29b37) Irvine, CA 4w ago $133,400–$226,800 [Swarm Aero](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/swarm-aero) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Embedded](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a31dd0c0c1d39ad1) Oxnard, CA On-site 4w ago $180,000–$240,000 [First Resonance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/first-resonance) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1dda61a93727c155) Los Angeles, CA On-site 5w ago $150,000–$190,000 [Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/461faf331f494ee8) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +6 more Hybrid 13d ago $136,000–$155,000 90 of 167 build what the customer runs. [Browse all matching jobs with salary information →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1®ion=greater-la) See what Los Angeles-area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range. Los Angeles here is the metro area, including El Segundo, Torrance and other nearby cities where several aerospace and defense postings sit. 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) ## Related salary guides - [FDE salary in Seattle](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/seattle) - [FDE salary in Austin](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/austin) - [FDE salary in the San Francisco Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/san-francisco-bay-area) - [FDE salary in the New York metro](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/new-york) - [FDE salary in Boston](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/greater-boston) - [FDE salary in Washington, DC](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/dmv) - [FDE salary in Chicago](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/chicagoland)