Salary guide
| Measure | Annual pay (USD) |
|---|---|
| 25th percentile | $204,000 |
| Median | $234,000 |
| 75th percentile | $277,000 |
| Lowest listing | $100,000 |
| Highest listing | $1,300,000 |
| Listings counted | 2,322 |
| Level | Listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Mid-level | 44 | $250,000 |
| Senior | 843 | $212,000 |
| Lead | 24 | $206,000 |
| Company | Open listings | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA | 144 | $204,000 |
| OpenAI | 127 | $356,000 |
| Roblox | 99 | $269,000 |
| Anthropic | 76 | $403,000 |
| Anduril Industries | 73 | $223,000 |
| Snowflake | 60 | $255,000 |
| Databricks | 59 | $216,000 |
| Nuro | 46 | $291,000 |
| Country | Currency | Listings | Median pay | Middle half |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | USD | 2,138 | $236,000 | $204,000 to $280,000 |
| Canada | USD | 56 | $233,000 | $207,000 to $255,000 |
| United Kingdom | USD | 7 | $228,000 | $193,000 to $245,000 |
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks Platform.
Databricks · 2mo ago
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work with federal government customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
Databricks · 2mo ago
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work with federal government customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you will work with federal government customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
Databricks · 4mo ago
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
Databricks · 8mo ago
Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) you will work with customers to build and productionize solutions to their data & AI challenges using the Databricks platform.
SYSTOLICNew · 15h ago
Candidates must already possess an active Top Secret/SCI w/ Full Scope Polygraph to be considered.
Every fund CFO’s office runs on spreadsheets, email threads, and a pile of portals that don’t talk to each other. We’re replacing all of it. Nearly 7,000 funds and SPVs and $150B in assets already run through it today. Here’s the fun part: we’re not building another portal.
The KYC (Know Your Customer) team is building the compliance infrastructure that powers every transaction in private markets, from Limited Partner (LP) onboarding to tender offers to transaction-level screening for Private Equity (PE).
Design, develop, maintain, and enhance complex software systems based on documented requirements. Develop software solutions supporting advanced analytics, algorithm development, large-scale data processing, and real-time applications.
Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI.
Customers trust Saviynt to safeguard their digital assets, drive operational efficiency, and reduce compliance costs. Built for the AI age, Saviynt is today helping organizations safely accelerate their deployment and usage of AI.
You'll turn complex financial problems into software used across accounting, reporting, compliance and investor operations. This is a hands-on Staff role.
Integrating AI into healthcare systems is hard. APIs behave differently in production, clinical workflows vary from site to site, and small edge cases decide whether clinicians keep using the product. You will own our most complex customer integrations from scoping to production.
Labs use it to decide what to train next, and enterprises use it to decide which models and agents to trust. It runs evals at scale, grades every result and explains why a model fails.
We are looking for an Software Engineer, AI Systems to help build the backend architecture behind our emerging agent systems. This role sits at the intersection of software engineering, data infrastructure, and applied AI.
Our partner is looking for a Staff Software Engineer (SRE) based in the United States. The Staff Software Engineer (SRE) will play a key role in building and scaling the infrastructure behind a global financial technology platform serving millions of users.
Join an early-stage enterprise identity and access management company as its first dedicated security engineer. You will build and own security across the product and organization, partnering closely with engineering while helping establish the security function.
Join an early-stage enterprise AI team building systems to help large organizations manage supplier agreements and control purchasing spend. As a founding engineer, you will shape the product and technical direction while delivering practical, measurable customer impact.
We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (MTS) to develop, evaluate, and improve AI agents and LLM-powered systems operating in real-world enterprise workflows.
Join an applied AI team in a venture-backed vertical SaaS business, building and deploying solutions for enterprise customers. This founding role will help shape the team's technical approach and its growing forward deployed engineering function.
As a Staff/Senior Cloud Engineer at Harness, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining our cloud infrastructure.
ZipRecruiter · 11d ago
The Tech Enablement team is central to the velocity and quality of our entire engineering organization. The Tech Enablement team ensures engineering efficiency and provides the foundational building blocks for the entire technology stack:
Anduril Industries · 11d ago
Our Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP platform is the backbone of those operations, but standard ERP functionality doesn't cover everything the business needs. That gap is where this role lives.
Apex Technology, Inc. · 4d ago
As a Senior Embedded Software Engineer on Apex's Flight Software team, you will design, develop, and own the software that brings our spacecraft to life.
Apex Technology, Inc. · 4d ago
As a member of the Flight Software team, you will design, develop, and own the software that brings our spacecraft to life.
micro1New · 1d ago
As a Member of Technical Staff, you will function as a forward-deployed research partner embedded directly within enterprise AI systems. You will work on live workflows, uncover real-world failure modes, and drive rapid experimental cycles to improve system performance.
Spend the first weeks of each engagement in the operator’s seat, learning the constraints from the inside, then rebuild the function from first principles alongside the client and a Forward Deployed Executive. You are the one who builds it.
Own customer deployments for an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from initial data access through a trusted system that delivers measurable business outcomes.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 11d ago
Join an early-stage B2B SaaS team building an AI-powered revenue platform for enterprise customers.
We’re hiring a Senior Software Engineer to help build the core product experience of our AI-first tax platform. As an early hire, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the core architecture and features of our innovative AI-powered tax platform from its inception.
micro1 · 12d ago
micro1 is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer, full-time and remote with travel required, to work directly with leading AI labs and enterprises as a technical research and implementation partner.
We are looking for an AI Research Engineer to join our document understanding team. This role is ideal for someone who sits between applied research and strong engineering.
We build software that gives employees real control over how they use their benefits. Every product team depends on the infrastructure you design and operate. Our platform runs in a HIPAA-compliant environment and handles sensitive healthcare data.
We’re looking for Forward Deployed ML Engineers who want to work at the intersection of deep technical work and direct customer impact.
As a Software Engineer on the Core Data team, you will help build the foundational systems that capture, persist, move and retrieve the critical data generated by our fleet of robots.
Design APIs and AI workflows for clients that scale and can be reused. Evolve the architecture as usage grows. Own the frontend with the engineering team. Own big product areas from zero to one, including the interface, the API, the data and the AI behind them.
Mbodi builds the software layer that lets industrial robots learn new skills from instruction in minutes instead of weeks of hand-tuning.
CrowdStrikeNew · 2d ago
We are seeking a Senior Engineer II to join the CDE Platform team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, building, and scaling the foundational services that orchestrate data, content, and execution logic across CrowdStrike’s products (e.g., NGSIEM, FCS, Endpoint).
Join the platform team at an early-stage AI company working in manufacturing supply chains. You will build the backend services, data systems, and AI capabilities that support reliable procurement and movement of materials through complex workflows.
True Talent Solutions Partners · 10d ago
Join the platform team at a cybersecurity company building identity governance software for enterprise customers.
Shield AI is seeking an engineer to help design, develop, and integrate a safety critical Run-Time Assurance (RTA) product.
Design, build, and optimize massive GPU clusters for extreme-scale training and inference workloads. Develop and tune low-level CUDA kernels (GeMM, Attention, etc.), using CUTLASS, Tensor Cores, and Nsight for maximum performance.
Architect and implement scalable distributed infrastructure for model serving (load balancing, auto-scaling, batch scheduling, global KV cache). Optimize latency and throughput of model inference under real production workloads.
Design, build, and ship full stack features for an agentic sourcing platform, from React and TypeScript interfaces to backend services, data models, and APIs.
Good design is a core feature of our platform. When people are looking to buy and sell assets that are valued as much as an actual house, it’s important the product experience is clean, smooth, and intuitive.
The median Software Engineer salary in our $200k+ listings is $234,000 a year, based on 2,322 live USD listings. The middle half of listings pays $204,000 to $277,000. These figures cover only listings that publish a salary of $200k+ or more, so they sit above pay for Software Engineer roles overall.
Individual $200k+ Software Engineer listings range from $100,000 to $1,300,000 a year. The 25th percentile of listing midpoints is $204,000 and the 75th percentile is $277,000.
Median pay by level in our $200k+ listings: mid-level $250,000 (44 listings), senior $212,000 (843 listings), lead $206,000 (24 listings). Levels with fewer than 5 listings are left out.
The companies with the most open $200k+ Software Engineer listings are NVIDIA (144 listings, median $204,000), OpenAI (127 listings, median $356,000), Roblox (99 listings, median $269,000), Anthropic (76 listings, median $403,000) and Anduril Industries (73 listings, median $223,000).
The figures come from the salary ranges employers publish in their own job listings, collected from company career pages and applicant-tracking systems. Each listing counts once, at the midpoint of its range. Only USD listings go into the headline figures, and listings that are closed or stale are removed. The data was last refreshed on November 14, 2026.
Yes. Each listing is tagged remote, hybrid or on-site, and remote roles carry a region (US only, EMEA, APAC or global), so you can filter the live job list to the arrangement you want.
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