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  • Connect directly with founders & VCs building FDE teams
  • The latest and highest paying FDE roles, before they are public
  • Live AMAs with Co-founder Anjor Kanekar & Founder guests
  • Invitation-only events with FDEs, Founders, Hiring leaders, and VCs

FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER.THE MOST EXCITING &CHALLENGING ROLE IN TECH

What started with a handful of Palantir engineers is now one of the fastest-growing roles in tech.

AI startups are hiring FDEs. Investors ask founders about their "FDE motion." Job ads have outrun any shared understanding of what the job actually is. More companies hiring. More founders building around it. More career paths opening. And it’s still early.

+0%FDE job-posting growth, YoY
$170K – $200KTypical FDE base salary
0+Companies actively hiring FDEs
0+Open FDE roles

FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER.THE MOST EXCITING &CHALLENGING ROLE IN TECH

What started with a handful of Palantir engineers is now one of the fastest-growing roles in tech.

AI startups are hiring FDEs. Investors ask founders about their "FDE motion." Job ads have outrun any shared understanding of what the job actually is. More companies hiring. More founders building around it. More career paths opening. And it’s still early.

+0%FDE job-posting growth, YoY
$170K – $200KTypical FDE base salary
0+Companies actively hiring FDEs
0+Open FDE roles
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NAZARE'S FDE EVENTS

Invite-only events

Private dinners, focused roundtables, and community events for forward deployed engineers, AI strategists, founders, hiring leaders, and VCs.

Roundtable
London

The Changing Shape of the FDE Function

An evening bringing together FDEs, founders, and VCs from across the UK AI ecosystem. Our panellists have collectively raised over £100M with FDE teams at the centre of how they scaled.

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NAZARE'S FDE EVENTS

Invite-only events

Private dinners, focused roundtables, and community events for forward deployed engineers, AI strategists, founders, hiring leaders, and VCs.

Roundtable
London

The Changing Shape of the FDE Function

An evening bringing together FDEs, founders, and VCs from across the UK AI ecosystem. Our panellists have collectively raised over £100M with FDE teams at the centre of how they scaled.

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Upcoming Events

NAZARES FDE EVENTS

Private events for the people shaping AI deployment: FDEs, AI strategists, founders, hiring leaders, and VCs.

Oct 14

Closed Door FDE Event
in London

Nov 18

Closed Door FDE Event
in Paris

Industry Landscape

THE BEST TIME
TO BE AN FDE

FDE used to mean one thing to most people: Palantir. That’s no longer true. The role now shows up across AI labs, enterprise software companies, high-growth startups, AI-native companies, consulting firms, and transformation teams.

AI Labs

Labs like Mistral or OpenAI need engineers who can sit with early customers and turn frontier models into working products.

The Knowledge Hub

INSIGHTS FROM THE FRONTIER OF AI DEPLOYMENT

Perspectives on the people, roles, and ideas shaping how AI gets deployed in the real world.

Author: Anjor Kanekar, NAZARE Co-Founder

Is FDE a Bubble?

When I wrote If LEGO Had Forward Deployed Engineers, I opened by saying the role was having a moment. That was an understatement. Since then the title has spread everywhere — every AI startup seems to be hiring FDEs, investors ask founders about their “FDE motion,” and the job ads have outrun any shared understanding of what the job is.

Author: Anjor Kanekar, NAZARE Co-Founder

If LEGO Had Forward Deployed Engineers

Forward Deployed Engineer is having a moment. Anthropic and OpenAI are pouring billions into the model. Founders are spinning up “FDE” titles before they’ve really worked out what the role does. What actually makes an FDE different from a really good consultant?

Author: Anjor Kanekar, NAZARE Co-Founder

Interviewing in the age of AI

Interviews have always been a bad proxy. You get maybe an hour with someone and you’re supposed to figure out whether they’ll be effective in a role that plays out over months and years. AI has made the gaps in our proxies impossible to ignore.

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