Become a Forward
Deployed Engineer
The role-focused program for senior engineers moving into customer-embedded builder roles, scoping ambiguous enterprise problems, shipping into locked-down environments, and demoing to skeptical executives.
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- US total comp range
- $0k–0k+
- Production modules
- 0
- Lessons with capstones
- 0
- Live-fire demo simulation
- 0
FDE roles are opening across AI vendors and enterprise platforms
Not another AI course. A role-specific field program.
Generic courses teach syntax and prompting. This teaches the entire client-embedded engagement lifecycle, the part that actually gets you hired and keeps the account.
Architectural scoping
Turn a vague executive ask into measurable objectives, a data schema, and a technical requirements document you can actually build against.
Enterprise data pipelines
Resilient ETL, domain ontology, schema drift, and dead-letter handling on dirty client data.
Applied AI & agents
Hybrid retrieval, evals, human approval gates, and deterministic fallbacks.
Air-gapped infrastructure
Containerisation, RBAC, telemetry, and deployment into locked-down environments.
Customer execution
Executive demos, scope negotiation, and holding the room when the system fails live.
Built from the questions that actually get asked in FDE loops
The scoping module is the thing I wish I had before my first onsite. Turning "we want AI for X" into a spec is the whole interview.
Curriculum design note
Every capstone ships to a GitHub repo an instructor actually reads. The certificate means an engineer reviewed your code.
On the review process
Module 5 injects a failure mid-demo on purpose. Recovering from that in front of a VP is a trainable skill.
On live-fire simulation
The founding cohort is the first to run; these are notes on the program design, not graduate testimonials.
Do you qualify for an FDE role?
Twelve questions, scored server-side across four axes, mapped against real FDE interview standards. You get a gap report, not a sales pitch.