Where FDE Roles Exist — Roadmap Step & Resources
The industries and company types that hire FDEs: government/defense tech, AI infrastructure, enterprise SaaS
- Level: beginner
- Estimated time: 1 days
- Roadmap: Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)
Before this step
Study resources
- What are Forward Deployed Engineers, and why are they so in demand? (Article) — Gergely Orosz's Pragmatic Engineer newsletter's deep, well-researched deep-dive into the FDE role, its history and how it's spread beyond Palantir.
- Forward Deployed Engineer (Article) — Covers comparable roles across companies (OpenAI's customer engineers, AWS solutions architects, etc).
- I gave 15 Forward Deployed Engineer Interviews. Here's what they ask. (Video) — Covers how the FDE role and interview process varies across ElevenLabs, Palantir, Google, OpenAI and other companies.
Part of
- Foundations of Forward Deployed Engineering — section
- Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) roadmap — the full learning path