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 August 14, 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 1,909 open forward deployed and adjacent on-site technical roles across 85 companies, refreshed from public ATS feeds.

1,909 open roles
85 companies hiring
76% on-site
4% hybrid
20% remote

Compensation (where listed)

From 465 roles with a parseable salary floor: $80k–$296k (median $168k).

Top employers by open roles

  1. Databricks 385
  2. OpenAI 143
  3. Palantir 113
  4. Stripe 86
  5. Zscaler 81
  6. Datadog 80
  7. Cloudflare 71
  8. MongoDB 65
  9. ElevenLabs 55
  10. Snowflake 51
  11. Samsara 46
  12. GitLab 45

Top location hubs

  1. San Francisco 68
  2. London, United Kingdom 53
  3. Singapore 52
  4. Tokyo, Japan 44
  5. London 32
  6. New York, NY / New York, United States of America 32
  7. Washington, D.C. 32
  8. Paris, France 30
  9. Sydney, Australia 26
  10. London, UK 23
  11. Dublin / Dublin, Ireland / Ireland 22
  12. New York City 22

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.