FFDE AtlasForward Deployed Engineer
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Forward Deployed Engineer Salary (2026)

What companies disclose for forward deployed engineer base pay, from 249 current job postings.

Median base midpoint
$211K
middle 50%: $166K–$241K
Typical range
$162K–$246K
median low to median high
Pay bands analyzed
106
from 249 postings at 47 companies

Pay ranges by company

Disclosed base salary range per company (USD)
Anthropic$270K–$405K
Cohere$240K–$415K
Harvey$255K–$350K
Pragmatike (recruiter)$200K–$400K
OpenAI$146K–$445K
Baseten$165K–$400K
Abridge$260K–$290K
Taktile$175K–$360K
Handshake$220K–$300K
Tribe AI$200K–$300K
Scale AI$138K–$345K
Replit$180K–$300K
Shield AI$152K–$320K
Exa$150K–$315K
Cognition$180K–$280K
Ramp$168K–$285K
Cresta$170K–$280K
Transformworks$150K–$300K
Glean$160K–$270K
Pear VC$180K–$250K
AHEAD$200K–$230K
Modal$180K–$250K
Databricks$125K–$302K
Deepgram$180K–$246K
Poetic$160K–$250K
Eudia$180K–$220K
Lunon$180K–$210K
Aircall$90K–$299K
CrossCountry Consulting$95K–$285K
AI Fund$180K–$200K
Notion$165K–$205K
Anduril$113K–$254K
Appen$150K–$200K
Titan$150K–$200K
Translucent$150K–$200K
Redpanda Data$158K–$185K
HappyRobot$120K–$220K
Pallet$100K–$240K
Applied Intuition$130K–$200K
Hive$120K–$200K
Palantir$110K–$200K
Rogo$100K–$200K
FieldAI$100K–$200K
Cohere Health$123K–$148K
AssemblyAI$115K–$135K
Sardine$95K–$140K
Tennr$40K–$190K
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How this is calculated: base salary ranges are parsed from 249 open postings that disclose pay in USD. Identical ranges within a company are counted once (106 unique bands), so a company with dozens of identical postings does not dominate. Ranges exclude equity and bonus.

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