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Forward Deployed Engineering

The job board for Forward Deployed Engineers

Curated FDE and FDE-adjacent roles at AI-native companies — the engineers who embed with customers, ship production code on-site, and turn one deployment into a repeatable platform.

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What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a software engineer who embeds directly with a company’s customers to design, build, and ship the integrations that get a product into production. Instead of building generic features from a roadmap, an FDE works the last mile: scoping a customer’s specific environment, writing real code against their systems, and staying attached to the account through go-live and beyond.

The role sits between engineering and customer success but is a genuine build job — FDEs ship production code, not slide decks. It’s the model Palantir made famous and that a new generation of AI-native companies (Ramp, Sierra, Decagon, Cognition, and others) have adopted to get complex, customer-specific software live fast.

  • Customer-embedded

    Works directly with a customer’s engineering team, not just internal stakeholders.

  • Production code

    Ships real integrations and workflows, then hardens what works into reusable platform primitives.

  • Full-loop ownership

    Owns discovery through rollout — scoping, building, and debugging live in the customer’s environment.