New-grad FDE jobs
Most FDE programs want 3–7 years of experience plus production LLM work — but three real onramps exist for students and new grads right now. Palantir is the deepest: intern → “Year at Palantir” → new-grad FDSE at $135k–$145k base. Sierra added a Software Engineer, Agent (New Grad 2027) req in August 2026 at $150k–$180k, and Salesforce hires at the associate level into its FDE pods. Google’s FDE I level and IBM’s co-op — real onramps earlier in 2026 — are currently between windows.
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Palantir invented the FDE model. FDSEs embed at customer sites building on Foundry, Gotham, and AIP for defense, intelligence, hospitals, manufacturers, and banks — with the paired Deployment Strategist track handling the operational side of the same deployments.
Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Palantir FDE guide →
Sierra’s forward-deployed function is its Agent Engineering org — reqs post as “Software Engineer, Agent”: engineers own the Agent Development Life Cycle end to end, building and tuning production customer-facing AI agents for brands in finance, healthcare, telecom, and commerce. Deployed Infrastructure Engineers install the platform into customer VPCs.
Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Sierra FDE guide →
Salesforce FDE pods embed full-time with a single enterprise customer for roughly three-month engagements, personally writing the code that designs, builds, and ships custom Agentforce agents into production. The program spans associate level through principal.
Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Salesforce FDE guide →
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