News Summary

• Job postings for forward-deployed engineers in April were up over 5,000% compared to last year.
• The role, popularized by Palantir, sits somewhere between software engineering, consulting, and product.
• Salaries for the role at OpenAI can be as high as $345,000 plus equity.
• It's not just engineers who are bridging the gap between technology and customers.
• Consultants are also hiring and retraining workers to help clients figure out where AI fits within their businesses and how to deploy it.