Forward Deployed Engineer

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Become a forward deployed engineer.

AI Engineering gives you the skills, tools and connections to become an FDE: the engineer AI companies send in to build AI that works for real clients.

I’m Alex, an FDE building AI for healthcare companies. Before that I ran engineering at an AI automation agency, shipping LLM agents to dozens of clients.

Two paths in:

→ Software engineer? Learn the client side: scoping, stakeholders and the FDE interview loop.

→ Starting out? Build the fundamentals first, then the client skills.

What’s inside:

🏗️ Courses: AI Harnesses, Reverse Engineer Anything, FDE Playbook

🛠 The AI Agency Tool Stack: every tool I use, and how to use it

📞 1:1 Weekly Q&A + async peer network

Coming next:

🤝 Connections with AI agencies hiring technical talent, for real client experience

💼 Intros to enterprise FDE recruiters

🚀 Resources for starting your own agency

Start with the pinned Start Here post, then tell us which path you’re on.