As of April 30, 2026, FDE Pulse tracks 259 active Forward Deployed Engineer job postings across 99 companies. Below are the top 30 by open role count. All data is sourced from active job postings and reflects base compensation only where disclosed.
Top 30 Companies by Active FDE Role Count
| # | Company | Open Roles | Salary Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Deloitte | 46 | $100K – $373K |
| 2 | 32 | $104K – $300K | |
| 3 | Skyline Eco Adventures | 11 | $112K – $300K |
| 4 | ZipLine | 11 | $112K – $300K |
| 5 | JDA TSG | 8 | $95K – $120K |
| 6 | Databricks | 6 | $181K – $360K |
| 7 | Applied Materials | 5 | $72K – $220K |
| 8 | Okta | 5 | $200K – $388K |
| 9 | Tenex.Ai | 5 | Not disclosed |
| 10 | Handshake | 4 | $157K – $325K |
| 11 | Capgemini | 3 | $68K – $249K |
| 12 | Cognizant | 3 | $100K – $180K |
| 13 | Lockheed Martin | 3 | $109K – $265K |
| 14 | EY | 3 | $107K – $374K |
| 15 | C3 AI | 3 | $120K – $197K |
| 16 | David Joseph & Company | 3 | $115K – $240K |
| 17 | Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) | 2 | $115K – $167K |
| 18 | Novartis | 2 | $195K – $419K |
| 19 | Teradyne | 2 | $126K – $272K |
| 20 | micro1 | 2 | $150K – $500K |
| 21 | W-Neweb | 2 | $70K – $100K |
| 22 | accrete | 2 | $160K – $280K |
| 23 | Rackspace Technology | 2 | $78K – $275K |
| 24 | Innovaccer | 2 | Not disclosed |
| 25 | Amazon Web Services | 2 | $144K – $208K |
| 26 | Adobe | 2 | $126K – $302K |
| 27 | CLERA | 2 | $140K – $185K |
| 28 | R1 RCM | 2 | $114K – $289K |
| 29 | Salesforce | 2 | $117K – $286K |
| 30 | Quanta Services | 2 | Not disclosed |
What the Company Distribution Tells Us
The top 30 companies account for all 259 active FDE postings because the dataset includes only companies with at least one active posting. However, the distribution is highly concentrated: Google (34 roles) and Deloitte (19 roles) together account for 20% of all active postings. The bottom 20 companies in this list each have one or two open roles.
This concentration has implications for FDE job seekers. At Google and Deloitte, you're joining an established FDE organization with structured onboarding, peer mentorship, and defined career ladders. At smaller companies with one to two openings, you're more likely to be defining the FDE function as you build it. Both paths are valid, but they require different skills and offer different growth trajectories.
Consulting Firms as FDE Employers
Deloitte (19 roles), Accenture (3 roles), KPMG (1 role), and Boston Consulting Group (1 role) collectively have more active FDE postings than any single product company except Google. This reflects a meaningful shift in the FDE market: the role is no longer the exclusive domain of product companies deploying their own technology.
Consulting FDE roles deploy specific vendor platforms at client sites. Deloitte's FDE postings reference AWS, Snowflake, and Databricks. These are not roles where you build the product being deployed. Instead, you configure, integrate, and operationalize third-party platforms for enterprise clients. The compensation is similar to product-company FDE roles (the $195K market median applies across both categories), but the day-to-day work differs.
AI and Data Platform Companies
Several AI and data platform companies appear in the top 30: LangChain, crewAI, Hex Technologies, and ServiceNow. These roles typically involve deploying AI/ML systems at enterprise customers, which requires a different skill set than traditional SaaS FDE work. RAG architecture, LLM evaluation, and prompt engineering are mentioned in these postings at rates well above the overall market average.
The presence of LangChain and crewAI as FDE employers reflects the maturation of the AI developer tools market. Companies building infrastructure for AI agents are now large enough to have customer deployment teams rather than relying on founder-led customer success. FDE roles at these companies sit at the edge of what's technically possible with AI, which can be both exciting and demanding.
How to Evaluate These Companies as Employers
Four factors to evaluate when comparing FDE opportunities across this list:
Salary disclosure rate. Roughly 77% of active postings disclose salary. Companies that don't disclose should be asked for ranges early in the process. The $195K market median is your baseline for negotiation.
Remote vs. on-site. Check each company's posting for location requirements. Companies like Logic Inc. and JDA TSG post roles with specific city requirements. Companies like crewAI and LangChain are more remote-flexible. Your personal location situation may narrow the realistic list significantly.
Industry domain. The technology you deploy shapes your career trajectory. Financial services FDE work (BNY, Bilt Rewards) builds fintech expertise. Data platform FDE work (Deloitte + Databricks/Snowflake stacks) builds data engineering expertise. AI tool FDE work (LangChain, crewAI) builds LLM deployment expertise. All are valuable, but they lead to different subsequent opportunities.
Company stage. Public companies (Google, Accenture, Qualcomm, BNY) offer predictable compensation and structured roles. Private companies (crewAI, LangChain, Hyperscience) offer equity upside and broader scope but more ambiguity. Match your risk tolerance to the company stage.
Methodology
Role counts reflect active FDE job postings as of April 30, 2026. A company appears in this list if it has at least one active posting matching "Forward Deployed Engineer" in the job title. Salary ranges represent the disclosed range across all postings for that company; companies with no disclosed salary are listed as "Not disclosed." Data is updated weekly.