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Forward Deployed EngineerToday
Manager, Forward Deployed EngineeringToday
In the news
- Caylent has 125 FDEs and plans to move 200 more engineers into the role
AWS partner Caylent told CRN its forward deployed engineers built an agentic development framework for Smarsh that freed up to $10 million in capacity, and its CEO expects a third of the company to fit the FDE model within a year.
- FDE is now the biggest AI engineering job category, with 451 open roles in one analysis
Agent Native analyzed 1,376 AI engineering job ads at 159 companies and found forward deployed roles make up a third of them, led by OpenAI, Wonderful, LangChain, Anthropic and Sierra.
- The forward deployed PM: Scale AI and Intercom add a product role next to their FDEs
A Second Talent analysis of five AI companies' job boards finds Scale AI and Intercom now hiring forward deployed product managers, while Palantir alone listed 81 "Forward Deployed" roles and no PM titles on October 5.
- Anthropic commits $100M to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers
Anthropic launched Claude Frontier Academy, a $100 million program that aims to train 10,000 Frontier Deployed Engineers at customers and partners by the end of 2027, starting with cohorts from Accenture, Bain, Capgemini, Deloitte, McKinsey and others.
- Essay: The $9 billion bet on forward deployed engineers
VC Eze Vidra argues that deployment, not model access, is now the bottleneck in enterprise AI, and that FDE teams build a moat only when their fieldwork turns into reusable product.