> 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. # Mid-level FDE salary Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/mid-level Median salary $150,000 a year across 105 jobs. See what mid-level FDE postings pay and what scope the level describes. **166** postings · **125** companies · **105** with pay · median **$150,000** · middle half $122,000–$162,000 · read Nov 6, 2026 ## These postings against the US The faint line is the $193K median across all US postings. $193K These postings Middle half $122,000 to $162,000, median $150,000. 105 postings [All US postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1) Middle half $160,000 to $225,000, median $193,000. - [2,430 postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?disclosed=1) [Enlighten AI Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/enlighten-ai-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5ed9e8e8098a61db) Chicago, IL New · 4d ago $135,000–$175,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering, US Government](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ed4fe82663ea1301) Denver, CO · Jessup, MD · +3 more New · 4d ago $143,700–$194,400 [NTT DATA, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ntt-data-inc) ### [Intermediate Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/481c04d87a784d1c) New York, NY Hybrid 10d ago $92,000–$170,000 [Praxent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/praxent) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/95345096208cf153) TX, CO, FL Remote 6w ago $156,000–$186,000 [Standard Template Labs (STLabs)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/standard-template-labs-stlabs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa3e9bae77b0a301) New York, NY On-site 1mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [Deloitte US](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deloitte-us) ### [Palantir Associate Forward Deployed Engineer - GPS](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b197a951fc3fee5) Multiple US offices 2mo ago $91,100–$175,100 [Deepgram](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deepgram) ### [Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/15bda554e4bf3180) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $155,000–$193,000 [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Public Sector, Nonprofit & Education](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ae7e224e776727e8) Mclean, VA · Chicago, IL · +8 more Remote 3mo ago $88,970–$316,750 [Defense Unicorns](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/defense-unicorns) ### [FDE Data Engineer- Space (FedD147)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e13eb4f161fbadf3) US Remote 4mo ago $123,250–$166,750 [Giga](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/giga) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer I/II](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a8c1bc68a76e5ecc) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $100,000–$190,000 [Titan Banking AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan-banking-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer – Applied AI Focus](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/45bfe7a4691c2221) US Remote 5mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [Caylent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/caylent) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b039dd6d9182b3aa) US Remote 6mo ago $136,000–$216,000 46 of these 105 jobs build what the customer runs. Mid-level here means the posting describes owning delivery within a defined scope without leading an unclear project end to end. A stated years-of-experience minimum is a separate measure, read separately. 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 - [Junior FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/junior) - [Senior FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Staff FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/staff)