Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in Hyderabad

Who is hiring FDEs in Hyderabad

Hyderabad is India’s second big hub for Forward Deployed Engineer jobs, and its character is different from Bengaluru’s. Glassdoor India showed 74 FDE listings in Hyderabad in October 2026, and Indeed India’s “forward deployed” search for the city returned about 100 vacancies. Many of the strongest roles sit in global capability centres (GCCs) building AI for regulated industries, with enterprise software platforms filling in the mid-level openings.

Why Hyderabad is a GCC-led FDE market

The defining feature of Hyderabad FDE hiring is the pharma and healthcare GCC. Johnson & Johnson’s India capability centre is hiring a Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer who turns clinical and business needs into GenAI, RAG and agentic systems on AWS and GCP, with security and compliance built in. The listing asks for 10+ years and names “forward-deployed or embedded engineering models” as a required skill. Amgen’s AI Studio wants a Senior FDE with 8–13 years who owns production AI apps end to end: discovery, architecture, evaluation thresholds, CI/CD, monitoring and handover.

In both cases the “customer” is an internal business team rather than an outside client. The skills are the same as a startup FDE role, but you also need regulated-domain discipline such as GxP, audit trails and human-in-the-loop controls.

The second group is enterprise platforms with Hyderabad teams:

• Workato lists a remote-friendly FDE role that builds agentic AI and RAG workflows on its integration platform. It asks for 4+ years, including at least a year on Workato itself.
• Kore.ai has posted an FDE Technical Lead role (7+ years) covering multi-agent orchestration, LLM evaluation and voice AI. An earlier FDE Developer role (2–6 years) is now closed.
• HighRadius frames its FDE (Net New) role around pre-sales. You run discovery and demos for finance teams, so it asks for quota-bearing sales or consulting experience more than coding depth.
• Bonterra wants a hands-on FDE with 2–3+ years of Python, APIs, SQL and LLM app patterns.

Indeed India also lists Hyderabad forward-deployed roles at Arcesium, Darwinbox, Crowe’s India capability centre, Redwood Software and Inspiredge.

The third group is consulting. Accenture lists a senior FDE in Hyderabad asking for 5+ years of Python. See our Accenture FDE guide for how the role works there.

FDE pay in Hyderabad

Most Hyderabad FDE listings, including the J&J, Amgen, Workato and Kore.ai roles, do not publish pay. Senior GCC roles are likely to sit well above the city average, but no figure for them is publicly reported. To estimate your own range, use the FDE Salary Estimator with Hyderabad selected.

How to land an FDE job in Hyderabad

1. Pick GCC or platform. GCC roles at J&J and Amgen want 8–13+ years and regulated-domain experience. Platform roles at Bonterra, Workato and Kore.ai start at 2–4 years. Apply where your experience actually fits.
2. Learn one regulated or business domain. Healthcare and life sciences (GxP, clinical data) for the pharma GCCs, and finance operations (ERP, Order-to-Cash) for HighRadius. Domain fluency is what separates Hyderabad candidates.
3. Ship one production-grade AI system with evals. Every listing here mentions RAG, agents or LLM evaluation. A deployed agent with a test set, guardrails and monitoring shows the end-to-end ownership Amgen and J&J describe.
4. Get hands-on with the employer’s platform. Workato asks for experience on its own product, and Kore.ai names its Agent Platform. Free tiers and certifications are a cheap way to stand out.
5. Search every title variant. Hyderabad employers use “Forward Deployed Engineer”, “Forward Deployment Engineer”, “Forward Deployed Software Engineer” and “Senior Software Engineer (Forward Deployed)”. Set alerts for all four on Glassdoor, Indeed and LinkedIn.

New to the role? Read what a Forward Deployed Engineer is and how much experience you need, then compare with the Bengaluru FDE market.