A few months ago, a friend of mine, a backend engineer at a mid-size fintech company, sent me a job posting titled "Forward Deployed Engineer" and asked, half-joking, "is this just a sales job with extra steps?"
That question stuck with me. So I did what I usually do when a job title confuses me more than it clarifies: I talked to people who actually do it. Over the past several months I...
If you've been scrolling job boards lately, you've probably noticed a title popping up more and more: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE). Once a niche role mostly associated with Palantir, forward deployed engineer jobs have exploded across the AI and enterprise software industry as companies race to get their products actually working inside customer environments — not just sitting...
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