Forward-deployed engineer salary — one-page snapshot
Every forward-deployed and deployment-adjacent role on this site that came with a published pay range — one page, printable, from the live snapshot of 2026-11-03.
Median published range
Across the 223 US roles posted with annual pay in US dollars, the median lower bound is $193,400 and the median upper bound is $260,000. Half of those ranges sit between $160,000 and $300,000; the median of range midpoints is $231,000 — the figure directly comparable to single-number medians published elsewhere.
By role family
| Role family | Roles | Median range |
|---|---|---|
| Applied AI / ML engineering | 64 | $219,000–$287,500 |
| Solutions engineering / architecture | 60 | $171,500–$225,000 |
| Forward deployed | 57 | $180,000–$280,000 |
| Customer / field engineering | 26 | $184,000–$222,500 |
| Other titles | 10 | $208,500–$294,500 |
| Deployment / delivery small sample | 6 | $146,000–$204,000 |
No group is withheld.
Employers publishing the most ranges
| Company | Ranges | Median midpoint |
|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 57 | $255,000 |
| Decagon | 13 | $225,000 |
| Datadog | 10 | $198,500 |
| Cohere | 9 | $295,000 |
| Fireworks | 9 | $230,000 |
| Rogo | 8 | $157,500 |
| Harvey | 7 | $302,300 |
| Ramp | 7 | $259,500 |
How these numbers are computed
- Open roles only. Closed postings are excluded.
- Employer-disclosed ranges only. Nothing is estimated or backfilled from comparable roles.
- Currency and period are not mixed. Aggregates use US-dollar annual pay — 223 of the 250 disclosed ranges. Equity, bonus and benefits are never included.
- Groups too small to quote are withheld. Fewer than 5 disclosed ranges means the whole group is held back; 5–9 is labelled a small sample.
Go deeper
Every disclosed range, itemised with its source posting, is on the full salary data page. Group splits, sample sizes and citation blocks are on the market data page.
Source: pay ranges as written in employer job postings collected by this site. Recomputed on every build from the live job set — 922 open roles at snapshot time. Snapshot date: 2026-11-03.