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Data & AI platform
FDE roles at data and AI platform companies: retrieval, text-to-SQL, fine-tuning and evaluation on the customer's lakehouse.
4 lessons · about 7.1 h beyond the FDE path
What the job asks for
21.3%of US FDE postings (165)
Titles seen
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Communications, Media, Entertainment & Games
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Public Sector
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Financial Services
What they ask for
- Prototype to production7 of 9
- Agents and tool use5 of 9
- Evaluation and guardrails5 of 9
- Retrieval (RAG)4 of 9
- Discovery and scoping4 of 9
- Stakeholders and executives3 of 9
Most postings: Databricks 77 · OpenAI 14 · C3 AI 6 · Snorkel AI 5 · Anthropic 4
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The FDE path stages this role leans on
The lessons
Practise
Prove it: interview drills
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