Salary overview • 2026 data
FDE Salary Bands Overview
Compensation ranges pulled directly from public job postings across AI infrastructure and enterprise software companies. Updated live from the same data that powers /jobs.json and llms.txt.
Key salary signals (2026)
- Forward Deployed Engineer: $170K–$325K total comp (US, varies by company and location)
- Solutions Engineer: $160K–$290K (strong overlap with FDE skill sets)
- Applied AI / Implementation roles: $180K–$310K at frontier labs
Crosslinks to role & location clusters
Agent-readable surfaces
- /llms.txt — full job index + salary metadata
- /jobs.json — structured feed (235 roles)
- Dynamic job surfaces — filter by role, location, salary