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Are you ready to be a Forward Deployed Engineer?

Free 3-minute forward deployed engineer skill check. Five scenarios on discovery, customer judgement, integration, evals and the human gate — instant results, no account.

Instant results. No account needed.

What this check covers

  • 1

    Discovery

    The first week decides whether you build what was asked or what was needed.

  • 2

    Customer judgement

    Every technical decision has a blast radius in someone else's organisation.

  • 3

    Integration

    The systems will not change for you; the promise has to fit what they allow.

  • 4

    Evals

    An accuracy number the customer does not recognise is the vendor's number, not theirs.

  • 5

    Human gate

    Some actions are gated by a person; the dangerous ones are not offered at all.

Forward Deployed Engineer is a role worth aiming for

This platform is built to get you into roles like Forward Deployed Engineer — this quick check is step zero.

Your result is a roadmap

You get an instant snapshot of your strengths and the exact gaps to close next.

Built for career changers

No account, no code, no pressure — just an honest read on where you're starting from.

The course

What you'll learn

10 modules · 64 lessons · 7 hands-on projects. Your placement result maps straight onto this path.

Module 120 lessons

AI Foundations — optional basics (free)

Module 24 lessons

Module 0 — Are you ready?

Module 35 lessons

Week 1 — Discovery: finding the problem worth deploying against

Module 45 lessons

Week 2 — The customer's data

Module 55 lessons

Week 3 — Integration engineering

Module 65 lessons

Week 4 — Building the AI workflow on customer ground

Module 75 lessons

Week 5 — Proving it works: evals on real data

Module 85 lessons

Week 6 — Deploying inside the customer's walls

Module 95 lessons

Week 7 — The people side of deployment

Module 105 lessons

Week 8 — From one deployment to many

Outcomes

What you walk away with

The skill check is just the on-ramp. Finish the track and you leave with proof, not just knowledge.

  • A working project, graded

    Build a real project and get an AI review against a professional rubric.

  • A verified skill profile

    See exactly where you stand across the competencies employers test for.

  • Production-grade patterns

    Learn the patterns teams actually ship — not toy demos.

  • A portfolio you can share

    Completed projects live in a public portfolio you can send to employers.

  • A certificate on completion

    Earn a shareable certificate when you finish the track.

Frequently asked questions

Do I need to be an engineer already?

Yes, for the course: it assumes working Python, APIs, SQL, git and one model API, and its Module 0 tests each one. The check itself is about judgement and needs no code.

How is this different from a solutions engineer?

A solutions engineer works before the deal closes; a forward deployed engineer arrives after it and owns whether the deployment delivers, with code, from inside the customer.

What happens after the snapshot?

You get an instant read on where you stand. The Forward Deployed Engineer course takes you through eight weeks and seven graded projects against one fictional customer, from discovery to handover.

Three minutes. Five questions.

Find your starting point as a Forward Deployed Engineer — instantly, no signup.