How Forward Deployed Engineering works at OpenAI — Colin Jarvis, Head of FDE

Colin Jarvis, unnamed host

Talks worth your time · OpenAI · 2026-10-09 · 40 min · 10 pages

OpenAI pays FDE engineers up to $785K a year. in this 40-minute talk their Head of FDE shows what those engineers actually do inside customer companies. 2:50 - why Morgan Stanley became the first FDE case 9:17 - eval-driven development, explained 16:22 - an LLM rerouting a https://t.co/yKSsADQBJV

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