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Microsoft Forward Deployed Engineer jobs
8 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at Microsoft, with the base pay its US posts publish, where it hires, and what FDE Times has written about it.
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Updated: 10 Nov 2026. Roles and pay are read from Microsoft's job posts and updated daily.
8open FDE roles
$209kmedian posted base pay (US)
$143k–$275kmedian posted range
0open to remote
Pay and benefits
Median posted base pay at Microsoft is $209k, with a median posted range of $143k–$275k.
Base salary only, from 5 US posts that state a range; equity and bonus are not included. FDE salary across all companies →
Where it hires
Open roles (8)
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Technical Program ManagementUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · posted 5 Nov 2026
- Principal Data Scientist - FDEUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · posted 20 Oct 2026
- Senior Data Scientist - FDEUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · posted 20 Oct 2026
- Principal Software Engineer - FDEUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · posted 20 Oct 2026
- Senior Software Engineer - FDEUnited States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations · posted 20 Oct 2026
- Senior Software Engineer - FDEUnited Kingdom, London, London · posted 17 Oct 2026
- Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Software EngineerJapan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo · posted 29 Jul 2026
- Sr Data Scientist - FDE - Security Check (SC) ClearanceUnited Kingdom, London, London · posted 10 Jul 2026
Seniority
Questions about FDE roles at Microsoft
- Does Microsoft hire remote FDEs?
- None of the 8 open FDE roles FDE Times tracks there is listed as remote.
- What does an FDE at Microsoft earn?
- The US job posts that state a range put base pay for FDE roles at Microsoft at $143k–$275k (median range across 5 posts). Equity and bonus are not included.
- Where does Microsoft hire FDEs?
- Open FDE roles at Microsoft are listed in United States, Multiple Locations, Multiple Locations; United Kingdom, London, London; Japan, Tokyo-to, Tokyo.
FDE Times on Microsoft
- Accenture is building 1,000 Google-trained FDEs. Is it still FDE work?
- Microsoft Presidio: masking PII before you call an LLM, and why its own documentation won't promise to catch it all
- AgentCore: what AWS handles, and what an FDE still has to check
- Explaining the LLM bill to a CFO: price each outcome, not each call
- Hands-on: syncing SharePoint and Confluence into RAG with a separate permissions job
- Reading a customer's Outlook mailbox with Microsoft Graph without opening the whole tenant
- The FDE system design round: design around the customer's legacy system, don't rebuild it
- When the client's architect says your design will fall over, turn the argument into a joint load test