Microsoft Frontier Company is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer at IC5 pay bands up to $304K
A Principal FDE – Software Engineering role on Microsoft's Frontier Company team embeds with strategic enterprise accounts to ship production solutions, with US base pay of $142,800–$274,800 and $188,000–$304,200 in the Bay Area and New York.
Microsoft's Frontier Company engineering team, which the company describes as having run a forward deployed model for more than a decade, is hiring a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer – Software Engineering. The posting frames the job as a senior individual contributor aligned to a strategic account: translate business needs into technical approaches, build and ship production-grade solutions in the customer environment, and prepare work for FDE crews that continue the engagement.
Required qualifications start at a bachelor's degree plus 6+ years of coding experience (or equivalent). Preferred paths ask for a master's plus 8+ years or a bachelor's plus 12+ years, plus hands-on delivery of LLM-based systems on cloud AI platforms. Travel is up to 25%, and Microsoft says it cannot sponsor a work visa for the role.
US base pay is listed as $142,800–$274,800 for Software Engineering IC5, with $188,000–$304,200 in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City metro. For senior FDEs, it is a clear staff-plus opening inside the hyperscaler's $2.5B forward-deployed push.
Source: nextmove.md