Forward Deployed Jobs
Forward Deployed Jobs
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State of FDE Hiring

A live snapshot from our scraped ATS feed — not a survey. Updated September 28, 2026. Below: workplace mix, who is hiring, where roles cluster, and salary bands when employers publish them.

How many forward deployed jobs are open right now?

We currently track 2,147 open forward deployed and adjacent on-site technical roles across 90 companies, refreshed from public ATS feeds.

2,147 open roles
90 companies hiring
78% on-site
4% hybrid
19% remote

Compensation (where listed)

From 466 roles with a parseable salary floor: $80k–$296k (median $168k).

Top employers by open roles

  1. Databricks 481
  2. OpenAI 157
  3. Palantir 120
  4. Stripe 87
  5. Cloudflare 84
  6. Datadog 81
  7. Zscaler 81
  8. MongoDB 73
  9. ElevenLabs 73
  10. Snowflake 55
  11. GitLab 46
  12. Samsara 46

Top location hubs

  1. San Francisco 70
  2. London, United Kingdom 66
  3. Singapore 57
  4. Tokyo, Japan 52
  5. London 36
  6. New York, NY / New York, United States of America 35
  7. Washington, D.C. 35
  8. Paris, France 32
  9. San Francisco, California / San Francisco, United States / San Francisco, USA 31
  10. Sydney, Australia 28
  11. New York City 27
  12. London, UK 26

How to read this

Forward deployed engineering stays a customer-facing craft: most listings are still on-site or hybrid. Remote shows up, but the core of the market is embedding with the customer. For role definitions, see FDE vs solutions architect. For the live list, start at FDE jobs.