Hire Forward Deployed Engineers for AI and Legacy Modernization
Your AI roadmap and your modernization backlog compete for the same handful of senior people, and hiring them the usual way takes months. CHI Software offers a faster path for CTOs and VP Engineering leaders – FDE as a Service.
When you hire forward deployed engineers from CHI, you get senior, hands-on builders who join your team, sit close to your stakeholders, and move blocked work into production. They are customer-facing and client-facing by default, so the person writing the code is the same person framing the problem with your product owners.
A forward deployed engineer is embedded in your environment. They read your codebase, map your technical architecture, and take clear ownership of outcomes rather than tickets. That mix of engineering depth and direct communication is what stalled AI initiatives and aging platforms need most. If you are working out how to hire forward deployed engineers for a specific delivery challenge, the sections below cover the outcomes they produce, the engagement models we support, and how we match you with the right person.