$167,400–$310,900
FDE salary for building what the customer runs in the San Francisco Bay Area
326 postings · 166 companies · 257 state pay: median $224,000, half $196,000–$255,000
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GenAI Forward Deployed Engineer IV, GenMedia, Google Cloud
San Diego, CA · Seattle, WA · +4 moreSan Diego, CA +5
$207,000–$300,000
$220,000–$300,000
$221,200–$387,100
$150,000–$250,000
Partner Forward Deployed Engineer III, GenAI, Google Cloud
New York, NY · Sunnyvale, CANew York, NY +1
$174,000–$252,000
$206,600–$229,000
$182,000–$250,208
$150,000–$250,000
Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud, Applied AI
San Francisco, CA · Atlanta, GA · +10 moreSan Francisco, CA +11
$174,000–$252,000
$160,000–$200,000
$182,000–$250,208
All 326 build what the customer runs.
See what FDE postings in the Bay Area that build what the customer runs pay.
These postings write the production code that runs in the customer's own system, rather than selling it, configuring it or leading the team. Employers often call the job Forward Deployed Engineer or Forward Deployed Software Engineer. The region is the whole Bay Area, not San Francisco alone.
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