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Forward Deployed Engineer

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Lesson 1Module 0: Are you ready?

What a forward deployed engineer actually does (and is not)

What you'll learn

1Describe the forward deployed engineer role in one sentence a customer and an engineer would both accept
2Distinguish the FDE from a solutions engineer, a consultant, a product engineer and a support engineer
3Explain why the role exists: the gap between a working product and a working deployment
4Recognise the four failure modes that end FDE engagements early

The full course

The customer-facing engineering track: embed with a customer, find the problem worth solving, get their data out and clean, build the integration and the AI workflow on their own ground, prove it with evals on real cases, deploy it inside their walls, and hand over a system their team can run.

10Modules

64Lessons

7Projects

Intermediate to advanced · about 102 h of guided work

Optional basicsAI Foundations, optional basics (free)20 lessons
Module 0 · lesson 1 is hereAre you ready?4 lessons
Week 1Discovery: finding the problem worth deploying against5 lessons
Week 2The customer's data5 lessons
Week 3Integration engineering5 lessons

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