Posts

type Post = {
  handle: "@lakhera2015";
  date: "2026-09-17";
}

🚀 Forward Deployed Engineer might be one of the most interesting roles to watch in the AI job market right now.

A few years ago, when we talked about Forward Deployed Engineers, one company immediately came to mind: Palantir. That is changing very quickly.

I spent some time

type Post = {
  handle: "@DataScienceDojo";
  date: "2026-10-08";
}

We're excited to have Aater Suleman, Co-founder of Vixul, Hannah Marlowe, Senior Director of AI Forward Deployed Engineering at Databricks, and Dan Maloney, CEO of LandingAI, joining the panel "Secure AI Needs Forward Deployed Engineers" at the Agentic AI Conference! 🎙️

Secure,

type Post = {
  handle: "@rocrizzardini";
  date: "2026-10-10";
}

You hired a forward deployed engineer to write code. The survey says the job is 31% code. The other 47% is why the role exists.

Perspective AI surveyed 1,500 forward deployed engineers at 154 companies, February to April 2026 (published May 18, 2026):

1. The median week: 47%

type Post = {
  handle: "@mardehaym";
  date: "2026-10-07";
}

Hot take: forward-deployed engineering is overrated.

Gartner predicts that by 2028, 70% of enterprises will abandon agentic AI built by vendor forward-deployed engineers, citing rising costs and the inability to evolve those systems independently.

I’ve spent over a decade

type Post = {
  handle: "@AlfinCodes";
  date: "2026-10-11";
}

Anthropic is hiring Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs)

But what the hell is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

type Post = {
  handle: "@zahiruddin_t";
  date: "2026-10-12";
}

Everyone talks about Forward Deployed Engineers at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Palantir.
But I think there's an equally important role 
The Internal Forward Deployed Engineer.
The engineer who helps teams across an enterprise adopt AI.

type Post = {
  handle: "@sachin_11004";
  date: "2026-10-15";
}

According to CNBC, Amazon Web Services and Anthropic are racing to build specialized AI engineering teams as Big Tech spends billions on artificial intelligence and looks for proof that the investments can generate business results. AWS has committed $1 billion to a

type Post = {
  handle: "@santhosh_patell";
  date: "2026-10-03";
}

Anthropic just put $100M into Claude Frontier Academy (Oct 2) to train 10k Forward Deployed Engineers. And they are still hiring their own Claude Code + India Applied AI seats hard.

Open (Greenhouse, checked live):
• Staff Software Engineer, Claude Code - SF / NYC / Seattle