Salaries

Company hubs for Forward Deployed Engineer total compensation, leveling, and interview links. Figures are directional public aggregates.

Deep hubs

• Palantir FDSEOrigin role · L3–L7 · Decomp interviews
• OpenAI FDE$350K–$550K+ discussions · Applied AI
• Anthropic FDE~$425K median cluster · Claude · MCP

All companies

• Anduril$180K–$380K · priority
• Anthropic$350K–$520K · priority
• Databricks$200K–$380K · priority
• OpenAI$350K–$550K+ · priority
• Palantir$171K–$415K+ · priority
• Salesforce$160K–$320K · priority
• Scale AI$200K–$450K · priority
• AWS$175K–$350K
• C3 AI$150K–$280K
• Cohere$200K–$400K
• Google Cloud$220K–$420K
• Microsoft$180K–$360K
• Mistral AI€120K–€250K
• Snowflake$180K–$350K
• Tesla Energy$140K–$260K
• Accenture$130K–$250K
• Glean$180K–$330K
• Harvey AI$190K–$380K
• Sierra AI$200K–$420K
• Vannevar Labs$180K–$320K