> 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.

# Senior FDE salary

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior

Median salary $190,000 a year across 1,849 jobs. See what senior FDE postings pay and what scope the level describes.

**2,529** postings · **1,184** companies · **1,849** with pay · median **$190,000** · middle half $160,000–$220,000 · 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 $160,000 to $220,000, median $190,000. 1,849 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)

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/20d2f37618650476)

San Francisco, CA Hybrid Yesterday

$185,000–$300,000

[Kraken](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/kraken)

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Client Solutions)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8948b7dff5b3ef4d)

New York, NY Hybrid Yesterday

$140,000–$220,000

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

### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/17886955cf8079ec)

San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid Yesterday

$130,000–$215,000

[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 2d ago

$207,000–$300,000

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

### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Life Sciences - NYC](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f19e00cc711f7d8d)

New York, NY Hybrid Yesterday

$185,000–$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 2d ago

$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 2d ago

$180,000–$250,000

[Ajax](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ajax)

### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0d4e6543d37b1522)

New York, NY On-site 2d ago

$210,000–$270,000

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

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

San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2d ago

$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 2d ago

$182,000–$250,208

[SAS Institute Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sas-institute-inc)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Solutions Architect, Large Pharma](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4c789e2f61e7b01f)

NJ · US remote Remote 2d ago

$136,948–$167,380

[Clutch](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clutch)

### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9a66d5225152e662)

US Remote 2d ago

$158,000–$210,000

1,077 of these 1,849 jobs build what the customer runs.

Senior here means the posting describes leading an unclear project through production: customer outcomes, technical decisions and mentoring. The employer's title can differ, so a “Senior” title with narrow scope is not in this group.

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

## Related reading

- [Senior FDE and deployment jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs-for/senior)
- [How to compare FDE job offers](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/compare-fde-offers)

## Related salary guides

- [Mid-level FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/mid-level)
- [Junior FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/junior)
- [Staff FDE salary](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/staff)