Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs in India

The purest bet yet that 'FDE' is a business model, not just a role: Cars24 spun out Deployment Inc — India's first dedicated forward-deployed AI firm — with $5M, an OpenAI Select Partner badge, and a plan to hire ~50 engineers (mostly FDEs) in a single month. Led by a Cars24 exec and an ex-xAI backend engineer, embedding pods inside India's largest enterprises. Founding-team leverage, in Gurugram, not SF.

A rare India FDE seat that prints a number: ₹10–13 LPA for a YC W22 agentic-finance company, aimed at 0.5–2 years of experience. The interview asks you to submit a transcript of your coding-agent session, which tells you how they screen for AI-native builders.

Seven open seats at once at a voice-AI company building India's government-backed voice-to-voice foundation model. The bar is 3–5 years of Python backend plus LLM prompting, so this is the accessible, engineering-heavy end of FDE in India, with no pay band posted.

Cursor opened FDE, Field Engineer and Solutions Architect seats across Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai at once. A three-city India build-out signals enterprise coding-agent demand there is real. Band undisclosed, so benchmark against the India FDE range on the board.

Senior FDE on Databricks' deployment team in Bengaluru, India (comp not disclosed for this geo). Part of the largest forward-deployed engineering org outside Palantir — Databricks now runs FDE across dozens of geos and verticals 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.

Salesforce is standing up Agentforce FDE seats in Hyderabad and Bangalore — the FDE title going offshore at platform scale. With Bengaluru now ~45% of India's FDE job descriptions, the delivery-hub playbook has reached the CRM giant's flagship AI product.

A digital-adoption unicorn spinning up a Bengaluru-based FDE lead who flies to US & Europe accounts — Whatfix is betting its new GenAI features need embedded engineers, not just CSMs. One of the few senior FDE seats in India that isn't at a pure-play consultancy.

When the database layer starts hiring FDEs, the pattern is officially infrastructure-wide. MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB) just stood up a Forward Deployed Engineering org from scratch — Atlas plus AI app-modernization — spanning seven-plus geos on two continents. IC band $118K–$231K, Senior Staff reaching ~$297K.

An $11B, $781M-raised voice-AI leader running a fully remote-global FDE seat — rare for a function usually chained to on-site enterprise work. The paper bar is unusually low ('customers in student clubs count'); the real bar is high: you own end-to-end builds for their most strategic accounts.

Staff FDE on Databricks' deployment team in Remote - India (comp not disclosed for this geo). Part of the largest forward-deployed engineering org outside Palantir — Databricks now runs FDE across dozens of geos and verticals simultaneously.

HackerRank is standing up an FDE function from scratch — a Director search plus ICs on three continents at once. Early enough to shape the playbook, at a company every engineer already knows.