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Land a forward deployed engineer job. We teach you how.
Search 1,453 roles from 799 companies, refreshed every week, and apply straight from each listing. Then practice the interview on 159 questions with scoring rubrics.
Led by Hamza Farooq, adjunct professor at UCLA and UMN, Stanford Continuing Studies instructor, ex-Google and Walmart Labs
Updated 2 Nov 2026 · listings gathered since May, refreshed every week
Latest roles
See all 1,453 rolesCleraEditor’s pickApply
Founding Forward Deployed Engineer
New York City, New York, United States · Mid · 2 Nov 2026
$200kCore FDEGenerative AI
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GoogleEditor’s pickApply
Forward Deployed Engineer IV, Generative AI, Google Cloud
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States · Senior · 2 Nov 2026
Applied AI / MLGenerative AI
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EYApply
Technology Consulting – TMT – Forward Deployed Engineer – Sr Manager
Dallas, Texas, United States · Senior · 2 Nov 2026
$206k–$428kLeadershipCloud infrastructure
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ArmadinApply
Forward Deployed Engineer
Palo Alto, California, United States · Mid · 2 Nov 2026
Core FDEGenerative AI
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NewRocketApply
Senior Forward deployed Engineers
India, Asia/Pacific · Senior · 2 Nov 2026
Core FDECloud infrastructure
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PrimefoldApply
Forward Deployed Engineer
Germany · Mid · 1 Nov 2026
€100k–€140kCore FDEGenerative AI
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The market at a glance
See the market56%
of the roles are in the US
US 56%Europe 18%India 7%Global 19%
33%
ask for Python, the most-requested skill
Prepare for the interview.
159 interview-style questions for FDE and AI engineering roles. 22 come with the full scoring rubric: what to ask first, what earns the points, and the red flags.
Product & scoping
A stakeholder believes the model ‘connects to the internet’ to answer questions with fresh information. Correct the picture and describe the actual data flow.
(opens in a new tab) AgentsAn agent has access to several hundred tools. Their definitions consume most of the context window before the user’s request is even read. Design a fix.
(opens in a new tab) Cost & scaleYou are designing quota enforcement for a paid LLM API. A single shared account can consume 140 hours of GPU time over a week while never looking abnormal in any one-minute window. Design the limiting scheme and defend the number of limits you chose.
(opens in a new tab)Free talks from people who do the work.
The FDE Build Series, free on YouTube.
Watch the series
Coming up, live on Wed 4 NovObservability and Evals for Enterprise AI Systems, with Aishwarya Ashok. Free.Save a free spot
50 minEvery rule your agent follows needs a checkGayathri Keerthana (GK), AI consultant, former Amazon Senior PM (ML)Watch on YouTube 
56 minSmarter models won’t fix your system designAbi Aryan, founder of Joule, author of O’Reilly’s LLMOpsWatch on YouTube 
30 minBuilding a contextual AI note-taker that remembers everyoneElie Bassil, an alumnus of our Maven course, on building RecaallWatch on YouTube 
55 minWhy AI agents fail at retrieval, and how wormhole vectors fix searchTrey Grainger, author of AI-Powered Search, founder of SearchkernelWatch on YouTube
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Forward Deployed Engineering Bootcamp
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