OpenAI pays $785K/year to developers who know how to apply Forward Deployed Engineering in AI. in 40-minute talk, Head of FDE at OpenAI revealed full roadmap for how they actually use FDE internally: • 10% → 2:46 - why Morgan Stanley was their first FDE case • 30% →... 9:05 - FDE eval-driven development explained • 55% → 16:01 - FDE live-demo: LLM rerouting a supply chain • 80% → 24:33 - advice for founders building FDE teams • 100% → 29:06 - the biggest FDE mistake they made this year 40 minutes replaces a $500 enterprise AI deployment course bookmark & watch - then read how to become FDE engineer in article below ↓show more

i'll be watching this while sipping milk and eating cookies

Happy this topic caught your attention. More is coming.

@coder0214h come and see roadmap

$785k/year so big money

Yeah, so true, bro. But I don’t think OpenAI pays for it for no reason. FDE is actually really hyped right now.

both anthropic and openai paying $785k for this role, the market is speaking

Yeah. This is true bro

fde turns demos into production

Yeah, this is how the future of engineering should look!

@dre_kwasi

eval-driven engineering is the missing piece for most AI builders. Even for simple workflows—like turning long-form videos into viral Shorts in 3 mins—without proper evals, the output gets noisy fast. FDE principles are a must-read for anyone building practical AI toolkits.

40 min of smart content

Tier 1 content, I’d say. By the person who actually ships FDE at the world’s #1 AI company.

Tier 1 video about FDA

Yeah. When the Head of FDE at OpenAI talks, I’m listening.

Forward deployed goldmine at $785K!

yeah, FDE is crazy !

Great video!

honestly wondering if that salary is real or just a rumor floating around ai circles would love to know what the actual day-to-day looks like for these folks

"forward deployed engineering" is consulting with a cooler name and better equity math attached.

finally someone highlighting the deploymeny gap

$785K at OpenAI here, $785K at Anthropic in @0xMovez's post three minutes earlier. either FDE comp has fully converged across the industry or that number is doing a lot of travelling

The eval driven development part is the real shift. Most teams build first and evaluate later. FDE flips that.

@grok summarise

This is not the norm guys.

$785k/year" is doing a lot of work here... one comp package isn't a market rate, it's recruiting theater.

The Morgan Stanley case being first is the detail I'd pull on. What specifically from that deployment shaped how they structure FDE engagements now?

$785K for FDE skills shows how valuable real deployment experience is now.

Morgan Stanley case required embedding engineers for on-site regulatory data handling

That's a solid salary for anyone good at that! Sounds like a really interesting talk.

fde isnt new, palantir did it for years but everything else in here is actually gold