Glean
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Glean. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $160K–$270K.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Glean
A Series-F company still hiring ‘Founding’ FDEs — the function is new even where the company isn't.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Late-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Engineers who want enterprise-search deployment at scale
- People who want a remote-friendly FDE seat that actually exists
- Those who value defining a function inside an established company
What they do
Glean builds enterprise search and an AI work assistant that indexes a company's internal knowledge. It is a Series-F company selling into large enterprises, competing with Microsoft and a wave of enterprise-AI startups.
What “forward deployed” means here
These are true FDE seats: embedded with enterprise customers, wiring Glean into messy internal data and permissions models. The ‘Founding’ label on a Series-F company is the tell — the deployment function is brand new even though the company is mature.
Comp & leveling
The band is $160K–$270K plus equity. Solid for the tier without being frontier-lab money; the equity of a late-stage, well-funded company is the real lever. Three seats are open, one fully remote (US) — a rare thing in FDE, where the job usually pulls you on-site.
Growth signals
Glean has raised large late-stage rounds at a strong valuation and is expanding its go-to-market. Opening three founding FDE seats at once signals it is scaling deployment capacity fast to keep up with enterprise demand.
Analysis updated 2026-09-11
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