Forward deployed engineer jobs.

A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who works inside a customer’s environment to take a product, today usually an AI system, from demo to production: scoping the real problem, building and integrating the system, and handing it over to the customer’s team. More on the role.

On this board, the median posted pay for senior US roles is $208k, mid-level $175k and entry level $140k. That is the median of the midpoints of the 462 US listings that publish a USD range; 46% of all listings show pay. Pay by level, explained.

Google (68 listings), Databricks (46) and Salesforce (26) have posted the most since May, out of 799 companies on the board. Most companies have posted one or two roles.

56% of the roles are in the US, 18% in Europe, 7% in India and 19% elsewhere or open globally. Filter by region at the top of the board.

Python appears in 33% of the roles, then AWS (28%) and Azure (19%). The interviews test more than the stack: scoping, AI system design and working with a customer. Practice the interview.

Every week. Roles come from FWDDeploy, DeployAI Jobs and employer career pages; we drop closed listings, duplicates and links that don’t open a listing. Each card opens the original listing, where you apply. Confirm the role is still open first.

Email us at hassan@traversaal.ai with the role, its location and a link to the listing. We check each role for real customer-embedded work, as we do for every listing on the board.