Forward Deployed Engineer jobs in Pune

Who is hiring FDEs in Pune

Pune does have Forward Deployed Engineer jobs, but it is a smaller and different market from Bengaluru or Hyderabad. Most Pune FDE roles we found in late 2026 sit with consulting and IT services firms (Accenture, KPMG India, Persistent Systems, DynPro) and enterprise software vendors (IFS, Zenskar), and they lean towards integration, ERP and data work rather than model research. Experience asked runs from 2–5 years up to 15+, and pay is rarely posted.

For scale: Glassdoor India showed 522 FDE listings across India in October 2026, and foundit’s 2025 data, cited by Masai School, gave Pune 8% of all AI job postings, behind Bengaluru (26%), Delhi NCR (18%) and Hyderabad (12%). No job board published a Pune-only FDE count that we could verify, so treat the employer list below as a current snapshot rather than a full census.

Why Pune’s FDE market is services- and integration-led

Second Talent describes Pune as a good market when deployment work is “integration-heavy rather than model-heavy”, and the listings bear that out.

Consulting and IT services make up the biggest group:

• Accenture lists Forward Deployed Engineer roles in Pune built around .NET full stack development, microservices, REST APIs and LLM-based modernisation. One is a principal role asking 15 years; another, posted on apna, asks for 3+ years. Our Accenture FDE guide explains how the role works there.
• Persistent Systems is hiring an FDE Lead with 15+ years to design and scale agentic AI and GenAI solutions on AWS, Azure and GCP, and to mentor a team.
• KPMG India lists Manager and Assistant Manager “Forward Deployed Engineer / AI Engineer” roles in Pune: Python backends (FastAPI, Django or Flask), Azure, and agent frameworks such as LangChain and LangGraph, with 3+ years asked.
• DynPro wants an AI/FDE Engineer with full-stack depth and recent production delivery on agentic platforms; ERP consolidation and data migration are listed as pluses.

Enterprise software vendors form the second group:

• IFS lists a Forward Deployment Engineer in Pune asking for 2–5 years in software, solutions or ML deployment, with Python and JavaScript. The work is integrating AI agents into customers’ enterprise systems and tuning their behaviour.
• Zenskar is hiring a Senior FDE for implementation and data migration: configuring billing rules, contracts and pricing models, reconciling billing data and building Python tooling.
• BitMaple lists a remote FDE (Generative AI) role based in Pune covering RAG, embeddings, vector databases and LLM APIs.

Pune also hosts remote India roles. Resilinc, which lists a Pune office, advertised a Senior FDE (5+ years, Python and Databricks) that closed in June 2026, so watch for it to reopen.

FDE pay in Pune

Two cautions. The Salary.com figure is from 2025 and covers few data points, so it likely understates current senior pay. And Second Talent says GCCs and US product companies sit at the top of each band while domestic services firms sit at the bottom — which matters in Pune, where services firms dominate. To estimate your own range, try the FDE Salary Estimator.

How to land an FDE job in Pune

1. Target the services-firm FDE track. Accenture, KPMG India, Persistent and DynPro are where most Pune openings are. Their roles reward client-facing delivery, so frame past projects around the customer problem and the outcome, not just the stack.
2. Get strong at enterprise integration. ERP systems, billing data, data migration and REST APIs come up again and again. One end-to-end project that pulls data from a real enterprise system into an AI workflow is worth more than a model demo.
3. Add one agent framework and one cloud. Python plus LangChain or LangGraph, deployed on Azure or AWS, covers the KPMG, Persistent and IFS listings. Azure is especially common in Pune consulting roles.
4. Match your experience to the right band. With 2–5 years, aim for IFS-style and KPMG Assistant Manager roles; the FDE Lead and principal roles want 15+ years. Read how much experience FDE roles ask for before applying.
5. Search every title variant and include remote. Pune employers use “Forward Deployed Engineer”, “Forward Deployment Engineer”, “FDE Lead” and “AI/FDE Engineer”. Many India-remote roles list Pune as a hiring location, so set alerts that include remote.

If you’re weighing a move, compare Pune with the Bengaluru and Hyderabad markets, and check the skills Indian FDE employers want.