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Specialisation
Logistics & industrial
Operations at scale: forecasts, schedules, systems with no API, and rolling out site by site.
3 lessons · about 1.6 h beyond the FDE path
What the job asks for
5.0%of US FDE postings (39)
Titles seen
- Forward Deployed Engineer
- Forward Deployed Robotics Engineer
- Forward Deployed Engineer - Manufacturing
- Forward Deployed Software Engineer
What they ask for
- Manufacturing and supply chains2 of 2
- Optimisation and operations research1 of 2
- Data pipelines and ETL1 of 2
- Agents and tool use1 of 2
- Discovery and scoping1 of 2
- Stakeholders and executives1 of 2
Most postings: Databricks 4 · HappyRobot 3 · Gecko Robotics 2 · Paragon (industrial AI) 2 · PhysicsX 2
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The lessons
Practise
Prove it: interview drills
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