Hebbia vs Glean

Both sell AI that reads an enterprise's documents, and both are hiring forward deployed engineers in New York. Hebbia pays $180K–$300K for a five-days-in-office seat; Glean posts $160K–$270K for a 'Founding' FDE with a remote option.

	Hebbia	Glean
Open roles	1	1
Comp on board	$180K–$300K	$160K–$270K
FDE type	True forward-deployed	True forward-deployed
Travel	Low	Medium
Comp	Top of market	Competitive
Stage	Growth-stage	Late-stage
Our take	One of the highest published non-founding FDE bands on the board — you're really being hired as the buy-side customer's embedded quant.	A Series-F company still hiring ‘Founding’ FDEs — the function is new even where the company isn't.

Bottom line

Pick Hebbia if you want the higher ceiling and a buy-side or law-firm customer you'll sit beside daily; the price is a strict office mandate and a narrow vertical. Pick Glean if you want a broader horizontal product, a remote-eligible seat, and the chance to define a function the company is still inventing; the price is a lower top of band and less certainty about what the job looks like. Hebbia is the sharper bet on one customer type, Glean the more flexible one.