Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
Microsoft
Redmond, WA · $120k–$235k a year · Posted October 22, 2026
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Pay compared with the market
This listing pays about $177,250 a year. Across 39 open senior forward deployed engineer listings that state pay, the middle half runs $177,500 to $224,000 and the median is $209,000. That is 15% below the median, below the middle half of those listings.
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About the job
...toolchains and AI-native workflows are all arriving at once and the engineering organizations adopting them fastest are the ones whose... ...Platform and Developers (WPD) organization is standing up a Forward Deployed Engineering team to close that loop directly. Forward...