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Who hires FDEs in India — and what they expect
Employer-posted pay, experience and what the FDE actually owns at each company. Updated as new listings appear in FDE Pulse.
| Company | Segment | City | Experience | Posted pay | What the FDE owns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Citi | GCC / banking | Pune | Senior (5+ yrs); Python, TypeScript, Java, LLMs, RAG | Not publicly reported | Lead Agentic AI Engineer (FDE) |
| TCS | IT services | Bengaluru | Mid level (2–5 yrs) | Not publicly reported | FDE role on LLM / Gen AI projects |
| Keyrus | Consulting | Bengaluru | Not stated in the listing excerpt | ₹22–34 LPA (employer provided) | AI-native business analyst / FDE hybrid role |
| Antino Labs | Indian product/services firm | India (city not stated in snippet) | Not stated in the listing excerpt | ₹30–40 LPA (employer provided) | Client-facing business-process and technology build |
| Cartesia | AI startup | Bengaluru | Prior forward-deployed, solutions, implementation or customer-facing engineering experience | ₹70–90 LPA (employer provided) | Real-time multimodal and voice AI deployments with customers |
| Blitzy | Global AI startup | India | — | ₹40–75L | Customer deployments of an AI dev platform |
| BROADMIND | Global startup (US) | Chennai | — | ₹25–30L | Client-side engineering delivery |
| Databricks | Global platform (India GCC) | India | — | ₹22–55L (segment range) | Data and AI platform rollouts |
| Google Cloud | Global product company | Bengaluru | Staff FDE (5+ yrs) and Generative AI FDE (2–5 yrs) | Not publicly reported | Developer AI and generative AI customer deployments |
| McKinsey QuantumBlack | Consulting | Bengaluru | 10–12 yrs (Principal) | — | AI solutions inside client organisations |
| BCG X | Consulting | Mumbai, Gurgaon | — | — | Building and deploying AI products for clients |
| Meesho | Indian consumer tech | India | — | — | Voicebot deployments |
Compiled from employer listings and reports cited in FDE Pulse. Pay is as posted where public; check the live listing before applying. Source. Updated 2026-10-25.
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