What is Forward Deployed Engineer role? What Does a FDE Actually Do? #tech #ai

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Forward deployed engineer or FDE is one of the highest paid roles in tech today with companies like Google, Nvidia, OpenAI hiring aggressively. So what exactly does a forward deployed engineer do? So most engineers work in their companies and build products for their own users. But FD does the opposite. They go directly into customers environment and make things work there. So if a large enterprise buys an AI product, FD is usually the engineer that will help them deploy it in real world. So things like understanding client's existing system, integrating everything together and making sure that it runs in real production system. Everyday work for an FD could be setting up infrastructure on AWS, writing scripts to integrate APIs, deploying AI agents, building rack pipelines or automation wo…