Built In maps who's hiring FDEs: Palantir, MongoDB, Cloudflare and more, with base pay of $160K-$220K
A new Built In roundup (Oct 26) profiles ten companies actively hiring forward deployed engineers, from defense and healthcare data to security and voice AI, and puts typical U.S. base pay at $160,000-$220,000, with total compensation above $460,000 at top payers like Palantir.
Built In published a roundup on October 26 of ten companies that are actively hiring forward deployed engineers. The list spans very different industries, including defense data, healthcare, identity security, edge networking, payroll and voice AI, with Palantir, MongoDB and Cloudflare highlighted among the leaders.
The piece describes FDEs as hybrid developers who build production features directly inside a customer's existing environment: custom data pipelines, integrations and security configurations. It gives examples such as SailPoint FDEs working with CISOs on connectors and access governance, Cloudflare FDEs moving customers off hardware appliances onto its Workers and zero-trust stack, and Optum FDEs putting patient data to work across UnitedHealth Group's systems.
On pay, Built In puts U.S. base salaries for the role at roughly $160,000 to $220,000, with total compensation reaching more than $460,000 at elite employers like Palantir, because FDEs directly drive software adoption and account expansion.
For job seekers, the takeaway is that FDE hiring is no longer limited to AI labs: established infrastructure, security and healthcare companies are building the same customer-embedded engineering teams. Open roles at several of the companies mentioned are listed below.
Source: builtin.com