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AI coding & modernisation
Coding agents in the customer's own codebase, from characterisation tests to a safe migration.
3 lessons · about 5.3 h beyond the FDE path
What the job asks for
2.5%of US FDE postings (19)
Titles seen
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Forward Deployed Test Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineering Manager
- Director of Forward Deployed Engineering
What they ask for
- Agents and tool use2 of 2
- Evaluation and guardrails2 of 2
- Prototype to production2 of 2
- CRM, ERP and workflow integrations1 of 2
- Agents for refactors and migrations1 of 2
- Retrieval (RAG)1 of 2
Most postings: Cursor 2 · Vercel 2 · Akka 1 · Coder 1 · DigitalOcean 1
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The lessons
Practise
Prove it: interview drills
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