SDE to FDE: Inside the Fastest Growing Role in AI
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About the Event
FDE is the hottest role in AI right now. Postings grew 729% in a year, supply grew only 50%, and senior FDE roles in India already cross 1.5 to 1.7 crore annually, a 2 to 3x premium over a comparable senior software engineer.
Learn directly from someone doing it: Anu Sharma, Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir, who left Google to join the company that invented the role.
What you'll learn
- What a Forward Deployed Engineer actually does inside a live customer deployment
- Why Palantir invented the model and why Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, and AWS are now betting billions on it
- What actually gets you screened into a role like this, and why it has nothing to do with a PhD
- How Masters' Union's PGP in Applied AI & Agentic Systems is built around this exact skill stack
Who is this for?
Software engineers, developers, tech consultants, data scientists, and early-career professionals exploring a move into AI.
About Anu Sharma
Anu Sharma is a Forward Deployed Engineer at Palantir, the company that invented the role. Before Palantir, she built her career across Google, Twitter, and Intuit.
About the Host
Divyashish Jindal is a graduate of IIT Delhi, building the School of AI at Masters' Union. For 17 years, he has worked at the intersection of education, technology, and startups. Built 3 startups with 2 exits. Invests in and advises startups.