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Sources checked: Nov 11, 2026

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Atlassian

You don’t have the luxury of building something people don’t want.Paavany Jayanty, US AI Forward Deployed Engineering lead. Meet the Forward Deployed Engineer, Oct 7, 2026.
every customer benefits.Paavany Jayanty, US AI Forward Deployed Engineering lead. Meet the Forward Deployed Engineer, Oct 7, 2026.
Treat governance as part of the architecture.Atlassian, FDE field playbook. Atlassian’s Forward Deployed Engineering Playbook, Oct 4, 2026.
Curiosity drives initial adoption. Value drives sustained usage.Atlassian, FDE field playbook. Atlassian’s Forward Deployed Engineering Playbook, Oct 4, 2026.

Databricks

Our engagements are engineering-driven, centered around customer business objectives.Jason Martin, Author, Databricks Blog. Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI, Jun 11, 2026.
What we learn in the field shapes the product.Jason Martin, Author, Databricks Blog. Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI, Jun 11, 2026.
That foundation is the difference between a prototype that demos well and a system that runs your business.Jason Martin, Databricks blog. Forward Deployed Engineering: Delivering Business Outcomes with AI, Jun 11, 2026.

Anthropic

a deep understanding of how their business runsSteve Corfield, Global Head of Business Development and Partnerships. Claude Frontier Academy, Oct 2, 2026.
Identify and codify repeatable deployment patternsAnthropic, Munich FDE role. Forward Deployed Engineer — Munich, Undated.

P-1 AI

We test and demo our product constantly.P-1 AI, Employer work principles. Careers — Ways of working, Undated.
there’s a clear owner for everything.P-1 AI, Employer work principles. Careers — Ways of working, Undated.

Sierra

Evaluating a conversation is rarely a technical task.Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, Co-founders, Sierra. The Agent Development Life Cycle, Jun 3, 2024.
But if you’ve ever built an agent before, you know the hard part isn’t going from zero to one, it’s improving it over time.Bret Taylor and Clay Bavor, Co-founders, Sierra. Agents as a Service, Mar 25, 2026.
There’s an enormous difference between building a demo and deploying an AI agent at scale.Natalie Meurer, Agent engineer, Sierra. Meet the AI agent engineer, Jul 11, 2024.

Andreessen Horowitz

Enterprises buying AI are like your grandma getting an iPhone: they want to use it, but they need you to set it up.Joe Schmidt, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. Trading Margin for Moat: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in Startups, Jun 4, 2025.
the implementation work required to make agentic experiences can itself be streamlined and automated by AIJoe Schmidt, Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. Trading Margin for Moat: Why the Forward Deployed Engineer Is the Hottest Job in Startups, Jun 4, 2025.
The FDE role attracted high-agency, high-EQ engineers who might otherwise have seen client-facing work as unappreciated.Tom Hollands, Growth Marketing Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. Forward-deployed Job Titles, Jan 27, 2026.

Salesforce

Getting AI into production is an engineering discipline.Lori Steele, President, Global Professional Services, Salesforce. Salesforce Launches Forward Deployed Engineering Partner Network, Apr 15, 2026.
Before a line of code is written, FDEs define how the agent connects to enterprise data, what permissions govern its actions, and where compliance controls sit.Salesforce, Newsroom. Salesforce Launches Forward Deployed Engineering Partner Network, Apr 15, 2026.
I’ve seen where features have been moved up six months because of the urgency of what we’re seeing in the field,Usman Nasir, VP, Forward Deployed Engineering, Salesforce. Back to Build: Why Agentforce Inspired 3 FDEs to Return to Salesforce, Nov 15, 2025.

Faculty

Care about the impact of your work. Find the thing that is most important to your customer.Faculty, Careers page. Careers at Faculty AI, Undated.

Glean

Before you write a line of code, you go deep on the business.Glean, Founding Forward Deployed Engineer job posting. Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Undated.
Builder's judgment: You know what's actually buildable, how long it will take, and when to simplify scope to get something real into production faster.Glean, Founding Forward Deployed Engineer job posting. Founding Forward Deployed Engineer, Undated.

Palantir

Solving real business problems, not academic benchmarks.Palantir, Forward Deployed AI Engineer job posting. Forward Deployed AI Engineer, Undated.
Wrestle with data at a scale that breaks assumptions and demands inventionPalantir, Forward Deployed Software Engineer job posting. Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Undated.

Scale AI

Design human-in-the-loop workflows that effectively combine AI automation with expert oversight.Scale AI, Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) job posting. Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering), Undated.
Running production experiments and measuring real-world business impactScale AI, Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) job posting. Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering), Undated.
Engineer systems for reliability, observability, latency, scalability, retries, fallback strategies, and graceful degradation.Scale AI, Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering) job posting. Frontier Agents Engineer (Forward Deployed Engineering), Undated.

Decagon

Testing the workflow for functionality, tone, correctness and other core KPIs to ensure enterprise-ready functionalityMax Lowenthal, Director, Agent PM. What it’s like to build AI agents at Decagon, Apr 15, 2025.
A systems designer builds the agent so the customer can still understand and own it a year later.Katherine Xiao, Director of Implementations. Introducing Agent Development: How Decagon is redefining forward deployment, Jun 22, 2026.

Cohere

It largely depends on whether the vendor builds knowledge transfer into the delivery model from the outset rather than treating it as a handover exercise at the end.Nastya Kats, Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer. FDEs: Building Capacity, Not Dependency, Aug 27, 2026.