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FDE jobs in New York

New York is the other center of gravity for Forward Deployed Engineering. Palantir runs one of its largest FDE offices from NYC, Ramp is headquartered (and now hires exclusively) here, and OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, Salesforce, Cursor, and Perplexity all hire FDEs into New York hubs. Posted NYC bands run from $135k (Palantir new grad) to $405k (the top of Perplexity’s band).

12 of 18 ranked programs match · Last verified September 2, 2026 · See the full FDE List →

FDEs in OpenAI’s Model Deployment for Business org own frontier-model deployments end to end — discovery, scoping, full-stack builds on OpenAI APIs, and production rollout — for strategic enterprise and government customers. What they learn in the field feeds directly back into research and product.

Base salary
$153k–$325k
Locations
SF · NYC · 10+ cities
Work setup
Hybrid, 3 days in office · up to 50% travel
Experience
5+ years, customer-facing + production LLM work
Worth knowing: OpenAI spun up an entire company for this: the OpenAI Deployment Company (May 2026), backed by TPG, Bain Capital, and Goldman Sachs, embeds FDEs directly into Fortune 500s — and has grown FDE headcount into the hundreds via the Tomoro and Northslope acquisitions.
Aggressively hiring on two boards — ~23 FDE-titled roles incl. new Healthcare and Legal tracks, plus Deployment Company reqs in five regions

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full OpenAI FDE guide →

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.

Base salary
$135k–$200k
Locations
NYC · DC · 14+ cities
Work setup
Office-first · up to 25% travel, more when deployed
Experience
Intern → senior — the only true new-grad FDE pipeline
Worth knowing: The FDE-to-founder pipeline is real: Palantir alumni have founded 111+ companies that raised $11.6B+, including Anduril. Until ~2016, Palantir deployed more FDEs than it had core software engineers.
76 open FDE-family roles (49 in the US), including new-grad and intern tracks

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Palantir FDE guide →

Anthropic FDEs embed with strategic customers to ship production Claude applications — building agents and MCP servers, providing white-glove deployment support, and feeding repeatable patterns back to product. Roughly 40% full-stack build, 30% architecture, 30% discovery.

Base salary
$280k–$320k
Locations
SF · NYC · 6+ cities
Work setup
Hybrid, 25%+ in office · 25–50% travel
Experience
3–4+ years customer-facing engineering + production LLM work
Worth knowing: The highest posted floor of any FDE program ($280k–$320k US band). FDE windows historically fill within weeks — the current one opened August 13, 2026.
FDE window open since Aug 13 — IC reqs in NYC/SF/Seattle plus new Munich and Paris postings; FDE managers hiring in NYC and London

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Anthropic FDE guide →

Google Cloud FDEs are “embedded builders” who code, debug, and ship bespoke agentic solutions inside customer environments, with direct access to DeepMind engineering. A separate DeepMind FDE track embeds with strategic partners on evals and frontier deployments.

Base salary
$174k–$364k
Locations
NYC · global hubs
Work setup
Hybrid hubs · substantial time in customer environments
Experience
Leveled ladder — currently hiring levels II through Partner V
Worth knowing: Google Cloud’s CEO personally recruits FDEs on stage — and it’s the only company with public per-level FDE pay bands.
~40 FDE reqs live across levels II–V, plus DeepMind FDE

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Google FDE guide →

AWS’s Forward Deployed Engineering org embeds teams of five to six engineers inside enterprise customers for sprints of 45 minutes to 45 days (the “AI 45” model), co-building production agentic AI on Bedrock, Kiro, and Amazon Q — designed to leave customers self-sufficient, with runbooks, knowledge graphs, and trained staff.

Base salary
$144k–$298k
Locations
SF · NYC · AUS · SEA
Work setup
In-office default · embedded at customer sites
Experience
6+ years, including architecture leadership
Worth knowing: AWS pitches FDE engagements as outcome-based rather than billable hours — the anti-consulting consulting model, led by VP Francessca Vasquez.
Fresh posting wave (late Aug 2026) — ~10 FDE-org reqs from FDE II to Principal plus managers, incl. a new US Government (TS/SCI) team and a first Berlin req

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full AWS 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.

Base salary
$89k–$317k
Locations
SF · NYC · 6 continents
Work setup
Hub hybrid, some US-remote · 25–50% travel
Experience
Associate through principal — the Futureforce new-grad intake has lapsed
Worth knowing: Salesforce brands FDE “today’s hottest role” in its own marketing — Benioff made FDEs the answer to the AI adoption gap at Dreamforce 2025.
~65 FDE-titled reqs across six continents, with new reqs posting weekly; India reqs have closed

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Salesforce FDE guide →

Perplexity’s FDEs — hired as Members of Technical Staff, Applied AI — design, build, and deploy end-to-end integrations that embed Perplexity into enterprise systems, owning deployments from architecture through production rollout and optimization.

Base salary
$220k–$405k
Locations
NYC · SF · Palo Alto
Work setup
Office hubs · travel varies by account
Experience
5+ years, production LLM systems
Worth knowing: Highest posted base band of the rising cohort — and FDEs carry the same “Member of Technical Staff” title as the researchers.
Hiring Applied AI MTS roles plus a new Perplexity Computer FDE req (Aug 2026)

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Perplexity FDE guide →

Ramp’s forward-deployed team designs end-to-end AI solutions for its largest enterprise customers, working directly with customers alongside sales and core product engineering. It’s the Palantir playbook applied to fintech, now productized as Ramp’s Applied AI Solutions offering for enterprise finance teams.

Base salary
$189k–$330k
Locations
NYC
Work setup
Office-oriented · relocation support to NYC
Experience
2+ years preferred, heavy AI-agent building
Worth knowing: Launched Applied AI Solutions in June 2026 — an embedded-FDE offering for enterprise finance teams — days after raising $750M at a $44B valuation.
Actively hiring in NYC; the forward-deployed internship is no longer listed

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Ramp FDE guide →

Scale FDEs build customer-specific data infrastructure on the GenAI Data Engine — RLHF and evals pipelines — for frontier labs and enterprises, while Public Sector FDSEs deploy the platform inside secure federal environments.

Base salary
$179k–$293k
Locations
SF · NYC · DC
Work setup
Hybrid (commercial) · onsite with 50%+ travel (public sector)
Experience
2+ years (GenAI track) — the lightest bar among major programs
Worth knowing: Its FDEs’ customers include the frontier labs themselves — and the public-sector track puts engineers inside secure government facilities.
17 forward-deployed reqs open, incl. a Sr. Director of FDE and a new Frontier Agents track

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Scale AI FDE guide →

Cursor (Anysphere) FDEs embed with enterprise engineering teams to ship production workflows on Cursor itself — large-scale refactors, migration systems, automated PR-review loops, and spec-to-implementation pipelines. The org is hiring FDEs and FDE leadership across the US, Europe, and APAC.

Locations
SF · NYC · Remote
Work setup
Remote-friendly · customer embeds
Experience
5+ years, plus 2+ years customer-facing
Worth knowing: Building a full FDE org, not a support function — Regional Director and RVP openings, a “Forward Deployed Strategist” track, and APAC expansion.
Six FDE reqs live across US, EMEA, and APAC, incl. a Regional Director and an RVP of FDE

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Cursor FDE guide →

Mistral’s customer-facing Applied AI org deploys its frontier models into enterprise production — fine-tuning, agents, and LLM applications from pre-sales through implementation — with a distinctly European footprint spanning sovereign and critical-infrastructure customers.

Locations
Palo Alto · Paris · global
Work setup
Onsite Palo Alto · hybrid NY, Paris, Montreal
Experience
2+ years IC; 8+ years for technical leads
Worth knowing: Posts roles the others don’t — “Critical and Sovereign Institutions” FDEs, and one of the only FDE internships anywhere (Paris).
11 forward-deployed reqs live globally, incl. four tech-lead reqs and a Paris FDE internship

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full Mistral FDE guide →

C3 FDEs design integration architectures, write production code in customer environments, and act as the primary technical contact for enterprise accounts on the C3 Agentic AI Platform — industrials, energy, defense, and federal.

Base salary
$120k–$230k
Locations
Bay Area · NYC · DC
Work setup
On-site · regular customer-site work
Experience
3+ years — Python/TypeScript, cloud, Kubernetes
Worth knowing: Pioneered enterprise FDE alongside Palantir years before the 2025–26 wave — though it now pays well below the new entrants.
11 FDE reqs, incl. five new Director-level openings plus Federal and Defence tracks

Interview loop, score breakdown & sources — read the full C3.ai FDE guide →

Common questions

Twelve of the 18 programs on The FDE List hire in NYC: OpenAI, Palantir, Anthropic, Google, AWS, Salesforce, Ramp, Cursor, Perplexity, Scale AI, Mistral, and C3.ai. Ramp is headquartered in New York — and since mid-2026 hires its forward-deployed engineers only there.
Posted NYC-market bands as of September 2026: Palantir $135k–$200k base (levels.fyi total comp $155k–$295k), OpenAI $153k–$325k on its FDSE reqs, Salesforce up to $316.75k across levels, Ramp $189k–$330k, and Perplexity $220k–$405k.
They are close: the Bay Area has 15 hiring programs and New York 12. SF skews toward the frontier labs and AI-native startups; New York skews toward Palantir (its FDE center of gravity), fintech (Ramp), and enterprise/federal-adjacent work. Comp bands are broadly similar between the two.

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