> 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 the San Francisco Bay Area

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Median salary $214,000 a year across 754 jobs. See what Bay Area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range.

**972** postings · **483** companies · 754 state pay: median **$214,000**, half $180,000–$245,000

Postings read on November 6, 2026

Published September 21, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026

[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 Today

$207,000–$300,000

[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 Today

$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 Today

$180,000–$250,000

[OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a5eb13cea3121c0)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid Today

$185,000–$300,000

[Databricks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/databricks)

### [Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/440870dea6def209)

Berkeley, CA · Kansas City, MO · +1 more Remote Today

$182,000–$250,208

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer III, Data Cloud, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82606f0a46009d9d)

San Francisco, CA · Austin, TX · +5 more Yesterday

$174,000–$252,000

[Generalist AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/generalist-ai)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f13c7e99d08d7c7e)

San Mateo, CA On-site Yesterday

$150,000–$200,000

[Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2f8984aea217c71f)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid Yesterday

$180,000–$220,000

[Syntiant](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/syntiant)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0bcf35f10ba6dd1)

Redwood City, CA 2d ago

$195,000–$225,000

[Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Higher Education, Google Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d79f8d9d3dca840c)

Sunnyvale, CA 2d ago

$207,000–$300,000

[Concurrence](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/concurrence)

### [Staff Applied AI Engineer (Forward Deployed) [NYC or SF]](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fc4932d5c7940bc)

New York, NY On-site 3d ago

$240,000–$300,000

[Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0ebf30b12510c57d)

East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 3d ago

$168,100–$261,500

570 of 972 build what the customer runs.

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See what Bay Area FDE postings pay and which employers state a range.

The Bay Area here is the whole metro, from San Francisco to San Jose and Santa Clara, so this is not a San Francisco city-only figure.

Employer postings · Calculated from posted salary amounts · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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