$225,000–$250,000
FDE salary for individual contributors
1,704 postings · 919 companies · 1,180 with pay · median $180,000 · middle half $152,000–$215,000 · read
These postings against the US
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
By responsibility level
The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings.
$193K
Junior
$117K$157K26 postingsMid
$121K$161K95 postingsSenior
$158K$218K982 postingsStaff+
$205K$256K31 postings
$140,000–$180,000
$140,000–$220,000
$130,000–$215,000
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$207,000–$300,000
Senior Software Engineer - AI, CoCounsel FDE
Frisco, TX · New York, NY · +7 moreFrisco, TX +8Hybrid
$118,400–$253,000
Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering
East Palo Alto, CA · San Francisco, CA · +3 moreEast Palo Alto, CA +4On-site
$143,700–$223,600
$210,000–$270,000
$158,000–$210,000
$192,000–$455,000
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud
San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 moreSan Francisco, CA +6
$174,000–$252,000
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government
Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +4 moreDenver, CO +5
$143,700–$213,800
684 of these 1,180 jobs build what the customer runs.
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Individual contributor means people management is not part of the stated responsibility. The role can still own technical decisions, customer conversations and production code.
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