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Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs in Singapore

5 open roles. FDE roles in Singapore and the wider APJ region.

Our take

Why Singapore

The APJ foothold for FDE work — niche and mostly GTM-flavored, but the region's most reliable hub.

Market depth
Niche
Remote
Medium
Comp
Competitive

A good fit if you're…

  • Engineers who want an APJ-based FDE seat
  • People comfortable covering a multi-country region
  • Candidates who like enterprise and public-sector deployment

The scene

Singapore is the most dependable FDE hub in the APJ region, though the market is niche — a handful of seats rather than a deep bench. It functions as the regional base from which engineers cover Southeast Asia and the wider APJ enterprise market.

Who hires here

Hiring skews toward enterprise-AI vendors and platform companies staffing regional deployment, often with a GTM-hybrid flavor. Roles here tend to carry multi-country coverage rather than a single-market focus.

Comp context

Singapore bands are competitive for the region and reflect its role as an APJ hub, but sit below US frontier-lab numbers. The draw is regional scope and location more than headline comp.

Analysis updated 2026-09-10

Open roles in Singapore

Axiomatic AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

Not disclosed

An FDE seat at a formal-reasoning / physics-AI research shop is a genuine rarity — most deep-tech labs never build a customer-facing deployment role at all. Three-continent footprint (Boston, Toronto, Singapore) and a research-adjacent mandate make this the closest thing on the board to 'FDE, but you also have to understand the science.'

Boston / Toronto / Singaporedeep techformal reasoningresearch-adjacentglobal
Adaption

Founding Forward Deployed Machine Learning Engineer

Not disclosed

A 'Founding' Forward Deployed ML Engineer at a young lab hiring across SF, Singapore, and India at once — founding scope on the customer-facing edge, where you 'operate at the bleeding edge of our technology and our customers' most consequential problems simultaneously.'

San Francisco / Singapore / India (on-site)founding titlethree geosapplied ML
Arize AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

$125K–$225K (by region)

Six FDE seats across four regions at the observability layer every agent deployment eventually hits — evals is the most durable skill in the FDE toolkit, and Arize does it all day. $125K–$175K in the US, $155K–$225K in EMEA; the geographic spread is the tell that this is a real GTM motion, not a support function.

Remote — US (West/East), EMEA, APJ (Singapore)evals + observabilitysix global seatsSeries C
Databricks

Sr. Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

Not disclosed

Sr. Staff FDE on Databricks' deployment team in Singapore (comp not disclosed for this geo). Part of the largest forward-deployed engineering org outside Palantir — Databricks now runs FDE across dozens of geos and verticals simultaneously.

SingaporeDatabricksdata platformGenAI
Databricks

Sr. Forward Deployed Engineer

Not disclosed

Senior FDE on Databricks' deployment team in Singapore (comp not disclosed for this geo). Part of the largest forward-deployed engineering org outside Palantir — Databricks now runs FDE across dozens of geos and verticals simultaneously.

SingaporeDatabricksdata platformGenAI

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