OutSystems
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at OutSystems. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Aug 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why OutSystems
Principal-tier confirmation that the FDE title has fully crossed into established platform vendors — you scope what to build, not just how.
- FDE type
- Solutions engineering
- Travel
- High
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Late-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Senior FDEs who want executive relationships and use-case ownership
- Low-code / enterprise-platform engineers moving into agentic AI
- People comfortable with up-to-50% travel and principal-level scope
What they do
OutSystems is the enterprise low-code leader — ~1,700 staff, with Toyota, Heineken, Bosch and KeyBank as customers — now driving an agentic-AI transformation of its platform. The Principal FDE drives that transformation inside strategic accounts.
What “forward deployed” means here
Principal-tier and more solutions-architect than embedded builder: you own executive relationships, discover and prioritize AI use cases, prototype fast, and prove business value on the OutSystems platform. Requires proven FDE experience in complex enterprises, hands-on agentic/LLM/RAG delivery, and AI-governance fluency. Up to 50% travel, UK-based.
Comp & leveling
The UK band is undisclosed; the US sibling req posts a $153K–$186.3K base, a fair proxy for the principal tier. Competitive for an established vendor — the value here is seniority and the mandate to shape what gets built, not a startup equity lottery.
Growth signals
When a 1,700-person platform vendor opens a Principal-tier FDE seat to own its agentic pivot, it confirms the role has matured well past startups. The risk is the flip side of maturity: more process, more matrix, less green field than a frontier-lab founding seat.
Analysis updated 2026-09-08
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