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What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

An FDE sits where software engineering, AI, product thinking, and customer problems meet. You do not just build features—you work with users, turn ambiguous business needs into working AI systems, deploy them, and improve them in the real world.

You can build

Code, APIs & cloud

You enjoy

Solving unclear problems

You want

Technical + client impact

An AI career-readiness initiative bySkillsNxt

Upskilling working professionals for 10+ years

Best suited to software, cloud, DevOps, data and solutions professionals

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