Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in Delhi NCR (Gurugram & Noida)

Who is hiring FDEs in Delhi NCR (Gurugram & Noida)

Yes, Delhi NCR has a solid Forward Deployed Engineer market. Glassdoor India showed about 40 FDE listings in Gurgaon and 41 in Noida in October 2026. The mix is different from Bengaluru’s: global platforms and AI startups in Gurugram, and IT services plus early-stage AI firms in Noida, with more entry-level roles than most Indian cities.

Two notes on the numbers. Glassdoor’s search pulls in some adjacent titles, and the Gurgaon and Noida counts can overlap with roles that list several cities. Masai School, citing foundit’s 2025 data, says Delhi NCR held 18% of all AI job postings in India, behind Bengaluru’s 26%. That figure covers all AI roles, not FDE roles alone.

Why Delhi NCR’s FDE market looks the way it does

Second Talent describes Delhi NCR as strongest for engineering close to enterprise sales, with consulting firms and SaaS vendors staffing pre-sales and implementation teams there. The listings fit that pattern.

Gurugram: global platforms and AI startups

• Google Cloud lists a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Generative AI role for Gurugram and Bengaluru, asking for 5+ years and work from office. The job covers moving prototypes to production agentic systems, building MCP servers and integrations, and writing evaluation pipelines. A separate FDE Engineering Manager role for public sector and education in Gurugram asks for 8+ years, including 2+ managing a technical team. See our Google FDE guide.
• UnleashX (1–3 years) deploys voice and chat AI agents for enterprises, wired into CRMs, ticketing and telephony.
• QuickReply.ai (0–2 years) builds WhatsApp automation journeys for e-commerce brands, with Shopify, CRM, ERP and payment integrations. The listing says plainly that it is “not a pure backend role”.
• UnifyApps advertised a 1–3 year Forward Deployed Software Engineer role in Gurugram. That posting has closed, but the company is worth watching.

Delhi and multi-city roles

• Cursor’s India FDE role is described as based across Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai. The work is helping customers’ engineering teams run large refactors, migrations and code-review workflows, then owning production quality.
• DevRev listed an FDE role for Delhi NCR asking for 5+ years, and a Forward Deployed Architect role that names Noida, according to Masai School’s 30 October check.

Noida: IT services and early-stage AI

• GlobalLogic (Hitachi) lists a Forward Deployed Engineer role asking for 5+ years on Google Cloud: Vertex AI, the Gemini API, RAG, GKE and Cloud Run. It also involves leading client engagements.
• SquadStack.ai and eSuccess AI both list fresher-friendly FDE roles built around prompts, RAG and customer AI builds.
• Adobe had a Sr Forward Deployed Engineer role in Noida. Its careers page now says the role has been filled.

FDE pay in Delhi NCR

Read the table carefully. The pay posted in NCR comes almost entirely from smaller Noida employers at the entry end. The GlobalLogic figure, as shown on JobFound, looks low for a 5+ year role, so confirm it with the recruiter. Levels.fyi’s India median rests on only 12 salaries, and no source publishes an NCR-only FDE benchmark. Second Talent says GCCs and US product companies sit at the top of each band, which suggests Google and Cursor would sit at the top in NCR too. That is our reading, not a published figure. To estimate your own range, use the FDE Salary Estimator.

How to land an FDE job in Delhi NCR

1. Pick your side of the city. For Google, Cursor or DevRev, you need 5+ years of production engineering and a story about shipping LLM or agent systems. With 0–3 years, target Gurugram and Noida startups such as QuickReply.ai, UnleashX and SquadStack.ai.
2. Build one integration-heavy project. NCR listings keep asking for CRM, ERP, Shopify, payments, telephony and webhook work. Build an agent that reads from one real system and writes to another, and document what broke.
3. Learn Google Cloud’s AI stack. Google’s Gurugram roles and GlobalLogic’s Noida role both run on Google Cloud. Vertex AI, the Gemini API, Cloud Run and a basic eval pipeline cover a lot of NCR openings.
4. Show you can sell what you build. NCR’s FDE work sits close to pre-sales. Practise a 10-minute demo and a scoping call, and use the client scenarios in our FDE interview questions guide.
5. Search Gurgaon, Noida and New Delhi separately. Job boards split NCR by city, and multi-city roles such as Cursor’s may list only one. If you’re early in your career, read can freshers become FDEs first.

For comparison, see the Bengaluru and Hyderabad markets.