AI salaries · updated November 3, 2026

Forward Deployed Engineer salary

Forward deployed engineers work inside customer teams to get AI systems built, integrated and working. Across 128 open postings that publish pay, the median is $216K a year, and the middle half pay $216K to $250K.

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Median yearly pay

$216K

10th
$203K
25th
$216K
75th
$250K
90th
$285K

From 128 open postings at 16 companies that publish pay.

  • $216KMedian posted pay
  • $80K–$445KLowest to highest posted
  • 128Postings with pay
  • 275Open roles now

Pay breakdown

By experience level

Median of each posting's pay range, grouped by the level in the job title.

  • Mid level 37$243K
  • Senior 88$216K

Remote or in the office

Remote roles often pay by the location you live in; on-site roles here are mostly in high-cost cities.

  • Remote 33$243K
  • On-site or hybrid 95$216K

Top-paying companies

Companies with at least two open Forward Deployed Engineer postings that show pay, by median.

  • Harvey 3$302K
  • Anthropic 3$300K
  • Snowflake 2$261K
  • Snorkel AI 7$260K
  • Scale AI 6$248K
  • OpenAI 19$243K
  • Labelbox 3$220K
  • Databricks 72$216K

How we calculate this

We read the pay ranges employers publish on their own job postings (US pay-transparency laws require most of them), count each posting once at the middle of its range, and use only yearly US-dollar pay. Equity and bonuses are not included; for sales roles some employers publish on-target earnings (base plus commission) instead of base pay. The data refreshes twice a day from 3,640 AI job postings with pay.

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