Forward Deployed Engineering Leadership jobs

The clearest sign yet that OpenAI is building the same FDE org-chart Anthropic revealed two weeks ago: a dedicated people-manager seat over the FDE bench, paying $302K–$385K — more than the $185K–$300K vertical IC seats (Legal, Healthcare) posted the same month. Management layers arriving this fast means the FDE function has outgrown "a few founding hires" at both labs simultaneously.

The management-track seat at India's first pure-play FDE firm — lead pods across concurrent enterprise deployments while staying hands-on. A founding-manager role at a $5M Cars24-backed, OpenAI-partnered venture that's stampeding to ~50 hires this month: you build the org that defines what an Indian FDE team even looks like.

Baseten is hiring the FDE manager and the ICs simultaneously — join the org on day zero, or run it.

A top-5 pharma is standing up a three-level FDE org — Exec Director, Director, and IC postings live simultaneously. The clearest signal yet that the title has escaped tech.

Replit is hiring someone to build its FDE org from zero at $300–400K — proof the role now has a management track, not just an IC ceiling.