DeployedForward Deployed & AI Engineer Salaries
What customer-facing and applied AI engineering roles actually pay, computed from the salary ranges employers publish on their own careers pages — not self-reported surveys.
- Median pay spans $47K across the 6 roles tracked here — from $183K for Implementation / Delivery Engineer to $230K for Forward Deployed Engineer.
- Implementation / Delivery Engineer pay is the least predictable: the middle half of postings runs $141K to $213K, a $72K spread.
- Computed from 244 postings whose employers published a salary range, one posting per employer per role.
| Role | 25th | Median | 75th | Change | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $214K | $230K | $280K | +$15K | 27 |
| Solutions Architect | $175K | $214K | $225K | +$18K | 49 |
| Inference Engineer | $165K | $212K | $235K | −$4K | 23 |
| Solutions / Sales Engineer | $151K | $202K | $219K | +$19K | 50 |
| Applied AI Engineer | $173K | $201K | $230K | −$2K | 47 |
| Implementation / Delivery Engineer | $141K | $183K | $213K | −$10K | 48 |
Change is measured against the benchmark of . Roles with no figure that far back show no change rather than a zero.
Use this data
The table above is published as a file, updated nightly. Both formats carry every role’s percentiles, its salary sample size, and the number of live postings behind it.
- data.csv — one row per role, opens in a spreadsheet
- data.json — the same rows plus the methodology and licence, versioned
Licensed CC BY 4.0. You may republish these figures, including commercially, as long as you credit DeployedJobs and link back.
DeployedJobs. (2026). Forward Deployed & AI Engineering Salary Benchmarks [Data set]. Updated 2026-10-24. Retrieved 2026-10-24 from https://deployedjobs.com/salary
Breakdowns by seniority and region sit on each role’s own page, linked from the table above.
How these figures are calculated
- Every figure comes from a salary range an employer published on its own careers page. Ranges are annualized, converted to USD, and reduced to their midpoint.
- One posting per employer counts toward each cut within a 90-day window, so a company that re-posts the same role weekly cannot move the median.
- Figures more than 3 standard deviations from their group median are excluded as data-entry outliers.
- A cut is only published once it has at least 5 postings behind it. Roles, regions and seniority levels below that show nothing rather than a number one employer sets.
Estimated from public job posting data, not verified employer-reported compensation. Figures are annualized and converted to USD from the salary ranges employers published.