Forward Deployed Engineer salary

Typical advertised pay for Forward Deployed Engineer roles, from real job postings on FindRole.

Median advertised base salary

$219,575

Most postings fall between $200,750 and $238,250.

Based on 46 postings across 19 companies. Updated October 27, 2026.

As of October 2026, the median advertised base salary for Forward Deployed Engineer roles is $219,575, based on 46 live job postings from 19 employers tracked by FindRole.

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Skills employers ask for

Share of Forward Deployed Engineer postings that name each skill.

Python 70% · 32 of 46
MCP servers 46% · 21 of 46
RAG 43% · 20 of 46
LangGraph 39% · 18 of 46
SQL 39% · 18 of 46
Prompt Engineering 37% · 17 of 46
LangChain 35% · 16 of 46
REST APIs 35% · 16 of 46
GraphQL 33% · 15 of 46
Webhooks 33% · 15 of 46
Anthropic 30% · 14 of 46
Gemini 30% · 14 of 46

Counted once per posting across 46 Forward Deployed Engineer postings with an extracted skill list, as of October 2026. Spellings are folded to one name (K8s → Kubernetes) — see methodology.

Related roles

Titles whose postings ask for many of the same skills.

AI Engineer shares Python, RAG, LangChain median $211,200
Software Engineer shares Python, SQL, REST APIs median $197,400
Backend Engineer shares Python, REST APIs, Agentic AI median $206,000
Engineering Manager shares Python, RAG, Vector Stores median $261,250
Engineer shares Python, SQL, REST APIs median $178,175
Full Stack Engineer shares Python, SQL, Kubernetes median $211,200

Top companies hiring Forward Deployed Engineers

Intuit 17 postings · median $238,250
Broadcom 4 postings · median $171,850
Adobe 3 postings · median $230,400
Reddit 2 postings · median $224,875
Booz Allen Hamilton 2 postings · median $114,150
JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) 2 postings · median $216,575
Accenture 2 postings · median $179,038
Salesforce 2 postings · median $196,675

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These figures are the midpoint of the advertised salary range on real Forward Deployed Engineer job postings indexed by FindRole — employer-stated base pay, not total compensation (they exclude equity and bonuses), and they reflect the roles we index rather than the whole market. A guide, not a guarantee.