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Where Generalists Get Priced: Inside the FDE Role
Daniel asked where an intellectually restless generalist actually gets priced — and refused the lazy answers. The answer has a name: Forward Deployed Engineer, a role born at Palantir in the mid-2010s and exported across Anthropic, OpenAI, Scale AI, Sierra, Harvey, Glean, Mistral, and Databricks. It pays a 30–50% premium over equivalent backend or ML engineers, with senior compensation at frontier labs hitting $485K median and principals crossing a million. But the real question is harder: what separates someone who accumulates knowledge from someone who ships? The two highest-ranked hiring…
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