Remote Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs

A $330K top-of-band leadership seat is the loudest signal yet that FDE has graduated from IC hustle to org-building. BetterUp — a coaching unicorn, not an AI-native lab — is standing up a net-new forward-deployed function, which tells you the motion has spread well past Palantir's orbit. If you can run a manager-of-managers FDE org, this is one of the best-paid such jobs on the board.

The company selling an autonomous software engineer (Devin) runs a human 'Deployed Engineer' fleet a dozen postings deep — SF/NYC/Austin plus ANZ, Tokyo, Singapore, London, Brazil, South Korea, and a Federal DC seat. They dropped the 'Forward,' but it's the same role, and the tell is unmissable: when the autonomous-coding leader needs this many people to land the product, the last mile is still very much human.

Anthropic's FDE org is brand new and scaling fast — early FDEs here will define the playbook.

Doppel is one of the first a16z/Bessemer-backed cybersecurity names to stand up a real product-building FDE org — proof the model has jumped past AI labs and data platforms into security. The Series C 'social engineering defense' company scans 150B+ entities a day and wants FDEs fluent in OAuth/SAML/SCIM and SIEM/SOAR wiring, not just LLM glue — a reminder that the highest-leverage FDE seats increasingly sit where enterprise identity plumbing meets agentic AI. Two reqs live (SF + remote US), plus an NYC lead track.

FDE has officially escaped the AI-native bubble: Tailscale — a WireGuard-based networking company, not an LLM shop — just opened its first FDE seat inside Customer Success. Note the comp tell: $150K–$250K OTE (base + variable tied to sales targets), roughly half the frontier-lab TC and structured like a quota role, a reminder that 'FDE' spans everything from $550K agent-builders to networking CSEs with a fancier title.

While the frontier labs staff FDEs to babysit LLMs, Kognitos is betting the real deployment bottleneck is the boring back office — AP, finance, and IT workflows nobody documented. Its "English as Code" neurosymbolic engine claims to kill hallucinations with deterministic logic, but every customer's tribal knowledge still has to be encoded by hand — that's the FDE's job. PepsiCo and Wipro logos, remote US, mid-level bar (3+ yrs), ~25% travel.

Blitzy deploys thousands of parallel AI agents to compress months of engineering into days; a $160K–$185K FDE is the mid-band seat that embeds with enterprises actually adopting autonomous code generation — the delivery arm of the agentic-dev thesis.

Fintech-for-credit-unions hires a remote, high-ownership FDE — explicitly 'not a support or implementation role' — to build the technical foundation for new AI lending products. Equity-heavy, ship-fast, shape-the-product framing on a full-remote seat.

An FDE function at the blockchain layer: the Avalanche team ships bespoke node/validator/custody solutions for a handful of regulated financial institutions — weeks of heads-down build between syncs, not a meeting-heavy CS cadence. $143K–$179K + token + equity, fully remote, and the JD openly scopes the hire as a future 'FDE #2,' signalling a small, still-forming field org.

The Kafka-alternative streaming vendor stood up a full FDE org — 'the delivery arm,' reporting to a Head of FDE — to embed builders inside customer codebases on its new Agentic Data Plane. $194K–$229K base, 30–50% travel, and a JD that explicitly benchmarks itself against Palantir FDSE, OpenAI Deployed Engineer and Sierra: infra vendors now copy the labs' field model wholesale.

The public grocery-tech company now runs an FDE pod — 'part startup, part consultancy' — embedding inside retailer and CPG environments to ship agentic AI on top of their stacks. $137K–$144K base is modest for the title, but it's proof the model has jumped from the labs to consumer-internet incumbents chasing enterprise revenue.

The CX-software incumbent is paying $200K–$300K OTE for FDEs to embed with strategic customers and ship its AI Agents and RAG workflows into production. 'Part software engineer, part strategic consultant,' 25–50% travel — about the clearest sign yet that the title is table stakes for public SaaS, not just frontier labs.

Machinify's AI payment-integrity platform touches 270M+ lives across 85+ health plans, including many of the top 20 — and it's hiring FDEs to embed with payers and build on top of it. A rare FDE seat where the deployment surface is the US healthcare claims system itself.

Sixfold's AI agents underwrite billions in premium for the world's largest carriers — and its Senior FDE JD is unusually blunt about wanting Claude Code / Codex-native engineers who orchestrate parallel agents and live in evals and context engineering. A field role that assumes agentic tooling is your default workflow, not a nice-to-have.

A 25-year-old analytics vendor posting a $300K FDE ceiling — that band tops most frontier-lab IC floors. Alteryx One rebrands the desktop-workflow company as an AI-data-architecture shop, and the senior, remote-US FDE is the wedge into Snowflake/Databricks/BigQuery accounts.

Jira and Confluence's owner — 300K+ customers — now runs a Principal-tier FDE org for its AI push, with SF, a Seattle Senior Principal req, and a fully-remote AI variant all live at once. $206K–$269K to embed enterprise-scale agent deployments: proof the title has landed at the collaboration-software incumbent, not just the labs.

LangChain calls it 'Deployed Engineer,' not FDE — but it's the same seat: embedding with customers to get agents into production on LangGraph and LangSmith. The framework half the industry prototypes on is now selling the last mile itself. $170K–$190K, Austin with remote flex.

Wealth management is quietly one of the stickiest FDE verticals — the data is messy, the clients are demanding, and nobody re-platforms twice. Addepar, sitting under trillions in tracked assets, is now hiring a remote-US FDE to push its platform deeper into RIA and family-office workflows. $107K–$168K base before equity.

When the database layer starts hiring FDEs, the pattern is officially infrastructure-wide. MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) just stood up a Forward Deployed Engineering org from scratch — Atlas plus AI app-modernization — spanning seven-plus geos on two continents. IC band $118K–$231K, Senior Staff reaching ~$297K.

One of the only FDE roles that openly hires new grads — 1+ years, $120K–$180K, and visa sponsorship — where the labs all gate at 5+. If you want the title on your résumé, this is the cheapest ticket in.

The company that sold you IntelliJ now wants an FDE to push 'JetBrains Central' into enterprises — $204K–$306K, fully remote, explicitly targeting ex-Staff/Principal engineers, Heads of Eng, and CTOs. When a 20-year IDE vendor stands up forward deployment for AI governance, the land grab has gone mainstream.

300+ banks and fintechs across 70 countries, $145M from a16z, Visa, and Experian — Sardine wants an FDE to train custom fraud-fighting agents inside client environments and prove causal impact with its own eval pipelines. Fincrime is quietly one of the densest FDE verticals nobody puts on a slide.

The FDE title just reached the Fortune 5. UnitedHealth is paying up to $348K for an engineer to embed with payers and providers and ship AI into claims and care workflows — the clearest sign yet the role has escaped tech and landed inside the largest healthcare company on earth.

Warp's first dedicated implementation hire — a founding FDE to drag its 'ambient agents' out of pilots and into customers' own Docker/Kubernetes clusters, wiring up GitHub Actions, Jira and Slack. When a back-office-automation startup makes its first FDE a founding seat, the deployment is the product.

Fully remote defense FDE work at $149K–$201K — roughly half what SF AI labs pay for the same job title — and the JD goes out of its way to say "this is not an ML research position." The differentiator isn't model skill, it's shipping RAG into air-gapped Kubernetes, which is a genuinely scarcer competence than the comp band implies.

Twilio's FDE writes production Python/TypeScript/Node directly inside customer codebases and runs 'builder hackathons' at flagship accounts — a public infra company treating forward deployment as a growth motion, not a support function. Fully remote, still rare for the role. The JD is refreshingly blunt: a 'hands-on contributor alongside customer engineers, not just an advisor.'

An AI-security startup (from CMU's Zico Kolter and Andy Zou) at ~25 people is already standing up forward deployment — building real-time threat detection and adaptive defenses inside customer environments. FDE-as-security is a niche the big deployment shops don't touch.

Monte Carlo built the data-observability category and is now pointing its FDE team at agent reliability — the pitch is that you own the account from close to fully-live. The $120K–$150K senior band is modest by frontier-lab standards, but this is a rare fully-remote FDE seat at an established unicorn where the work is real integration engineering (Snowflake, Databricks, Salesforce) rather than demo theater.

Neha Narkhede's (Confluent co-founder) AI Risk Decisioning company calls the FDE 'the most technically complete role at Oscilar' — embedding engineers to design agentic fraud, credit, and compliance systems inside banks and fintechs. Founder pedigree plus a fully-remote seat.

Firecrawl turns any website into LLM-ready data and is one of the most-used primitives in the agent stack; $160K–$220K for an FDE shipping customer integrations, with a second broader FDE seat ($150K–$250K) open too — a small YC team standing up deployed engineering as demand outruns headcount.

Figma is standing up an FDE motion around Make Local, its new design-to-code developer workflow — embedding engineers with strategic customers to unblock adoption and feed the product. When a design giant with millions of users spins up forward-deployed engineering, the title has fully crossed into mainstream software. $152.8K–$296K is a wide leveling band for a function it's building from scratch.

OpenHands (the open-source AI coding agent, formerly OpenDevin) hires an FDE to own hands-on installs of OpenHands Enterprise on customer-managed infra — Kubernetes, Helm, OAuth delegation, MCP connectors, agentic SDLC use cases like CVE remediation and issue-to-PR. $175K–$240K base plus equity; a rare deployed-engineering seat where the product is open source and the hard part is the on-prem last mile.

P-1 AI is building 'Archie,' an AI engineer agent for the physical world (mechanical/electrical/aerospace design), and its FDE is the technical lead who wires Archie into real engineering workflows and fine-tunes it on customer data. It explicitly wants a physical-engineering background — one of the only FDE seats that asks for aerospace/mechanical chops, not just backend. Rarest vertical on the board after silicon and drug discovery.

GC AI builds the AI platform for in-house legal teams (97.5% of customers see value inside month one, per the company), and its FDE band runs $165K–$350K — a 2x spread that says they'll level you anywhere from senior IC to near-staff. Legal AI's deployment race is on (Harvey, CoCounsel, Legora), and GC AI is staffing the last mile remote-first across the US and Canada.

An $83B Fortune Global 500 hardware giant is running a company-wide AI transformation and calling the builders 'Forward Deployed Engineers' — embedded inside its own business functions, not customer sites, on a Microsoft Copilot/Azure OpenAI/ServiceNow stack. $220K–$310K, and the clearest sign yet the title now means 'high-autonomy engineer who ships adopted AI,' whether the deployment is inward or outward.

A next-gen industrial company (1,100+ employees) puts an FDE inside its Digital Innovation Group — embedded on actual factory floors up to 75% of the time, prototyping full-stack and agentic solutions for manufacturing, quality, and supply-chain ops. This is 'forward deployed' in the literal, hard-hat sense: the customers are Re:Build's own plants, and the domain barrier is industrial, not just technical.

Alguna (YC S23) is rebuilding B2B quote-to-cash — CPQ, usage metering, billing — and its FDE ships customer integrations end-to-end across CRMs and ERPs. At $80K–$125K it's the low end of the FDE band, but it's a genuine early-stage, remote-across-four-countries seat where you own implementations from 'what do you need?' to 2am hotfix. The comp is modest; the ownership and equity are the pitch.

Six FDE seats across four regions at the observability layer every agent deployment eventually hits — evals is the most durable skill in the FDE toolkit, and Arize does it all day. $125K–$175K in the US, $155K–$225K in EMEA; the geographic spread is the tell that this is a real GTM motion, not a support function.

A $145M-funded edge-sync database trusted by Delta, Chick-fil-A, and the US military, now hiring FDEs five postings deep including a DC/defense seat. The work is genuinely hard — peer-to-peer CRDT sync across offline and intermittently-connected devices — which is exactly why it's FDE-shaped rather than a solutions-engineering rebrand.

CoCounsel — legal AI used by a million professionals across 20,000+ firms and most of the Am Law 100 — is standing up a Forward Deployed Engineering team from SWE through Staff/Architect. When a 150-year-old information giant runs a full FDE ladder, the title has fully crossed into legacy enterprise.

An $11B, $781M-raised voice-AI leader running a fully remote-global FDE seat — rare for a function usually chained to on-site enterprise work. The paper bar is unusually low ('customers in student clubs count'); the real bar is high: you own end-to-end builds for their most strategic accounts.

Groq literally frames the job as 'a hands-on AI startup CTO' — deploy and optimize inference on their LPU stack inside customer orgs, up to 50% travel. $143,600–$289,100, and one of the few FDE seats on the chip side of the inference war rather than the model side.

A Series-F company hiring 'Founding' FDEs — proof the function is brand new even where the company isn't. Three seats open, one fully remote.

A top-5 pharma is standing up a three-level FDE org — Exec Director, Director, and IC postings live simultaneously. The clearest signal yet that the title has escaped tech.

Cap-table and fund-admin SaaS for private-fund managers is standing up a brand-new FDE function that sits at the intersection of deployment, applied AI, and quant modeling. $180K–$270K, fully remote — a rare remote bet from an otherwise in-office NYC company — for a builder who can take vague fund-ops requirements to working systems.

Nvidia pays like a lab for the architect flavor — and every serious enterprise GPU deployment eventually routes through this team.

A ~60-year-old payments and banking-core giant is standing up an AI-native FDE practice — a Principal seat plus a second, standard FDE req live at the same time. When FIS embeds engineers to ship LLM agents into bank back offices, the title has officially reached the Fortune 500.

Rare fully-remote FDE role at scale — Databricks runs one of the most mature FDE functions outside Palantir.

8 open FDE roles at a company small enough that FDEs talk directly to founders — maximal ownership per deployment.

Eval and data-quality work is the most durable skill in the FDE toolkit — Labelbox FDEs do it all day.

Contact-center AI is one of the few categories with proven ROI — Cresta FDEs ship deployments that visibly move customer P&L.

One of the only globally-remote FDE roles — deploy AI at the edge for customers on Cloudflare's developer platform.

Snowflake's answer to Databricks' FDE motion — remote-friendly and sits on top of half the enterprise data in America.

All-remote company with a mature async culture — the most sustainable-lifestyle FDE role on this list.

Stripe engineering brand plus customer-facing autonomy — FDEs here work with the largest platforms integrating payments and AI.