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Decision platforms
Ontology-led roles: model the customer's operation, then build the applications operators decide in.
3 lessons · about 3.6 h beyond the FDE path
What the job asks for
6.2%of US FDE postings (48)
Titles seen
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer, New Grad
- Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal
What they ask for
- Python2 of 2
- TypeScript and front ends2 of 2
- Travel to customer sites2 of 2
- Data pipelines and ETL1 of 2
- Evaluation and guardrails1 of 2
- Discovery and scoping1 of 2
Most postings: Palantir 42 · C3 AI 6
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The FDE path stages this role leans on
The lessons
Practise
Prove it: interview drills
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