Break into Applied AI and Forward Deployed Engineering Roles
🏢 FDE at Notion
🔍 Ex-Google, ex-Bloomberg SWE
📕 Author of The Forward Deployed Engineer (O'Reilly)
🤝 Partnered with LinkedIn
🎤 Interviewed at 30+ AI companies
I left Google, spent a year figuring out the role everyone is racing to hire for, and documented the real work from inside. No theory, no hype, just what ships and gets people hired
What you get:
🎯 Recruiter intros via Paraform. No resume screen. Only people I have vetted. $260K+ avg hire (Cursor, Palantir, Decagon, Cognition)
🏗️ 7 modules: RAG, MCP, agents, evals
💻 9 Python files + 3 GitHub repos
📓 Weekly journal from real FDE work
📞 Weekly Q&A + async peer network
For you if:
✅ Starting fresh and ready to put in the work
✅ You can write code and work with APIs, or are willing to get there fast
✅ Pivoting from SWE, TPM, PM, or consulting
✅ Inside a big AI deployment with no peers who get the job
Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic are hiring FDEs now
⚠️ Price increases at 60 members