Embeds with an enterprise customer for weeks or months to deploy the vendor's AI in the customer's environment, writing custom integration code and feeding requirements back to the product team.
skills
[full-stack / systems integration][customer-facing technical discovery][data pipeline and enterprise API integration][prototyping under real constraints (compliance, on-prem)][Python / TypeScript][influencing product roadmap from field feedback]
pay
low:171000
high:295000
currency:USD
basis:total-comp
seniority
senior-ic
distinctFrom
Unlike a solutions architect or sales engineer, the FDE actually writes and ships production code inside the customer's stack rather than advising or demoing; frontier labs (OpenAI, Anthropic) pay 2-3.5x Palantir's classic FDSE at senior levels, almost entirely in equity.
