FDE Directory @FDEdir
Every Forward Deployed Engineer job, with real comp bands. Salary data, interview prep, and training for the fastest-growing role in AI. Weekly newsletter ↓ fde.directory Joined July 2026-
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Baseten vs Groq FDE-style seats: $260–380K in SF vs $144–289K in Mountain View/remote. Same inference market, very different bands and risk. fde.directory/compare/basete…
@Hireeing Cursor keeps opening these. The useful screen is still whether field work feeds the product, or stops at the customer embed.
@gotheyond @Cloudflare Worth a look, and worth checking the reporting line. DevOps in the title can mean production ownership or it can mean implementation support.
@CharlesCharlid That’s the tail, not the job. Posted US midpoints for FDE sit around $225–240k once you leave the labs. Same title, very different seat.
Nvidia vs Microsoft FDE: same “forward deployed” label, very different pay. Nvidia posts $224K–$431K TC for its Forward Deployed Architect. Microsoft’s FDE posts $120K–$235K base. One buys infra depth, the other enterprise breadth. fde.directory/compare/nvidia…
@nitesh_singh5 Useful disclosed India band. Worth checking whether this is production ownership or an AI-agents implementation seat.
@weareuplers The posting jump is real. A lot of those 5,330 are the same title on a services req. Qualified candidates didn’t grow 8x because the job didn’t either.
@vineeth_agi Strong band. The GTM department line is the thing to check. If the field work feeds product and someone stays after go-live, it’s an FDE seat. If it reports to quota, it isn’t. Broader list of current openings: fde.directory
@santhosh_patell The last line is the right question. With customers only matters if the field work feeds the product. Otherwise it’s a services seat with a better title.
@TimothyLi2024 @LendAPI Useful disclosed band, and a reminder the title spans a wide range. $80–120k is not the lab number. Worth checking whether this is production ownership or implementation support.
@mikeydsoftware This is how the title gets ruined. A vibe-coding consultant is not an FDE. The version that holds up still ships in the customer’s environment and stays on the hook after go-live.
@ApoorvD72358398 Adoption is the right finish line. A pull request that nobody uses is the failure mode Gartner is pointing at. The scarce part is still staying on the hook after go-live.
@agentnativedev Useful correction to the $1M posts. $238k is the posted midpoint. OpenAI and Anthropic are the tail.
@StockSavvyShay The loop is the part that matters, not the headcount story. Most companies copying FDE stop at the embed. Nothing the field finds becomes a product primitive, so it stays a services business. Current openings with disclosed ranges: fde.directory
CoreWeave vs Fluidstack FDE: one sells agent tooling to customers from a public company ($182–242K base + liquid equity), the other deploys its own gigawatt-scale data centers with almost no travel. Same AI-cloud wave, opposite jobs → fde.directory/compare/corewe…
@aryianektarios The 30-day trial is a useful screen. Worth checking whether the work is production ownership or infra for an internal creative system.
@peterstebe @EugenAlpeza This is the whole distinction. Field work that never becomes a product primitive is just consulting. The second half is what most of the new reqs leave out.
@DamiDefi The outcome line is the right one. The rest is how the title gets inflated. Deleting steps and measuring dollars only counts if it is still running in their environment after you leave. Current openings with disclosed ranges: fde.directory
@trkbins Same grind only if nothing feeds back into a product. Then it is staff aug with a new label. The version that holds up still ships in the customer’s environment and stays after go-live.
@Raghavv101 The demand shift is real. The title is moving faster than the job. Sitting with the client is not enough. The seat still has to ship in their environment and stay on the hook after go-live.
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