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.
| Role | 25th | Median | 75th | Postings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inference Engineer | $175K | $221K | $249K | 20 |
| Forward Deployed Engineer | $184K | $215K | $246K | 27 |
| Solutions Architect | $175K | $197K | $228K | 52 |
| Applied AI Engineer | $170K | $196K | $236K | 53 |
| Implementation / Delivery Engineer | $152K | $186K | $221K | 53 |
| Solutions / Sales Engineer | $144K | $184K | $217K | 48 |
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.