Databricks

Databricks already runs a broad commercial FDE org; now it's carving out a clearance-gated U.S. Federal AI-FDE track ($200K–$300K, employer-provided) requiring US citizenship and eligibility for a Secret clearance. The federal FDE land-grab — AWS, Cognition, Scale, and now Databricks — is where the least salary-transparent but highest-margin deployment work is quietly concentrating.

Rare fully-remote FDE role at scale — Databricks runs one of the most mature FDE functions outside Palantir.