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forward deployed AI engineer

An FDE focused on AI systems: agents, model behavior, retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, evals, permissions, and the workflow redesign needed to make AI actually useful in production.
The forward deployed AI engineer tuned the agent only after watching how analysts handled exceptions manually.

forward deployed engineer

An engineer embedded with customers to discover, build, integrate, debug, and productionize software or AI inside the customer's real environment. Not there to write decks — there to make the thing work where the customer actually works.
A forward deployed engineer is not there to make slides; they are there to make the thing work.

FDE

Forward Deployed Engineer. An engineer who lives at the customer, writes real code, integrates systems, and owns the path from ambiguous use case to working production deployment.
The FDE spent the morning with claims ops and the afternoon shipping the API fix.