Diligent

1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Diligent. Curated with comp bands.

On the board since Aug 2026 · still hiring

Our take

Why Diligent

A founding-team FDE seat at an established GRC vendor — explicitly not support or consultancy; you own agents from failing trace to Board-trusted production.

FDE type: True forward-deployed
Travel: Medium
Comp: Competitive
Stage: Late-stage

A good fit if you're…

Engineers who want to define an FDE function from zero
People who like regulated-enterprise (audit, risk, compliance) problems
Those who want agent-reliability work: evals, guardrails, observability

What they do

Diligent is the GRC (governance, risk, compliance) SaaS leader — 1M+ users and 700K board members — now embedding agentic AI into audit, risk and compliance workflows inside global banks and regulated enterprises. It's building its FDE function from zero to a planned 20–25 people, so early hires set the template.

What “forward deployed” means here

The posting is emphatic that this is not a support or consultancy role: you embed with regulated enterprises across the EU and US, run agent-focused discovery workshops with audit and compliance teams, and take agentic solutions from prototype to production-grade reliability — evaluation infra, golden datasets, guardrails, observability. TypeScript/Python and multi-agent orchestration required. Hybrid, London, ~50% onsite.

Comp & leveling

The London band is undisclosed; the NYC sibling req lists $130K–$170K, a reasonable proxy for the tier. Competitive rather than top-of-market — the draw is founding-team scope inside an established, cash-generative vendor, not a frontier ceiling.

Growth signals

An established platform standing up an FDE org from scratch, with a stated 20–25-person target, is a clear signal the FDE title has crossed into mature enterprise software. First hires shape how agents embed in high-stakes compliance workflows — durable, defensible territory.

Analysis updated 2026-09-08

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Diligent

Forward Deployed Engineer

Not disclosed (US sibling role $130K–$170K)

The GRC SaaS leader — 1M+ users, 700K board members — is building its FDE function from zero to 20–25 people, and the first hires define how agents embed inside global banks' audit, risk and compliance workflows. Explicitly 'not a support or consultancy role': you own agents from failing trace to Board-trusted production. The NYC sibling posting lists $130K–$170K.

London (hybrid, 50% onsite)GRCagentic AIfounding team

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