Forward deployed engineer is AI’s hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire. Here’s how to become one.
Welcome, TNS Daily readers! We have added this Saturday newsletter, which focuses on the breakneck world of AI and software development and is written by Matt Burns, Chief Content Officer at Insight Media Group. We hope you enjoy this weekend's feature on the rapidly evolving world of forward deployed engineers. (And scroll to the end of this email to read our TNS quote of the week.)
OpenAI launched the Deployment Company this week, a $4 billion push built around staffing corporations and enterprises with forward deployed engineers.
The next day, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian went on LinkedIn to recruit for the role, while Google Cloud had 59 related roles open and reported that the company plans to hire hundreds. Meanwhile, Anthropic embedded its FDEs inside FIS to co-build an anti-money-laundering agent. And ServiceNow and Accenture also launched a joint FDE program.
This all happened within the last 10 days.
If you’ve been wondering which AI job is durable, pays well, and isn’t a hype role like prompt engineer in back in 2023, the answer is becoming obvious. The forward deployed engineer is the bridge between an AI model and a working production outcome inside a company. And the path to becoming an FDE seems doable: Learn the AI engineering stack, build with real workflows, and train the customer-facing judgment most engineers avoid.
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