Forward Deployed Engineer Posts

This is an index page of Aced (formerly Exponent) blog posts about Forward Deployed Engineers. It links to 2026 guides covering the FDE interview process at companies like Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks, resume templates and keywords, role comparisons between FDEs, software engineers, and solutions architects, plus a guide to answering decomposition interview questions with frameworks and example walkthroughs.

Key points

• Index page listing Aced's FDE blog posts.
• Includes a definitive FDE interview guide covering Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Databricks.
• Compares FDE roles with software engineers and solutions architects.
• Offers FDE resume templates, bullet examples, and skill keywords.
• Features a step-by-step guide to decomposition interview questions.

• So You Want to Hire a Forward Deployed Engineer

  InsightFirst Round2026-02-24EN

  This First Round piece examines the forward deployed engineer (FDE), a role Palantir pioneered nearly two decades ago, and its resurgence at AI startups.

• The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again

  InsightThe Pragmatic Engineer2026-05-24EN

  Gergely Orosz reports that demand for forward deployed engineers (FDEs) is rising again.

• What I learned analyzing 1K forward deployed engineer jobs

  LearnBloomberry2025-11-18EN

  The author analyzed 1,000 forward deployed engineer job postings from Revealera and found the title covers three distinct roles: Builder FDEs who embed with customers writing production code (60%), rebranded sales…

• How to hire a forward deployed engineer in 2026

  LearnParaform2026-04-22EN

  Paraform's guide to hiring forward deployed engineers (FDEs) in 2026 argues the role is distinct from software or solutions engineers because FDEs ship production code inside customer environments.

• Forward Deployed Engineer: The Fastest-Growing AI Role in 2026 — What It Is, What It Pays, Who's Hiring

  CaseJobsByCulture2026-05-30EN

  This article explains the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), a hybrid role combining software engineering, solutions architecture, and customer success, embedded at customer sites to ship AI systems end-to-end.

• Why AI Compute Comes in Rectangles — Erik Bernhardsson, Modal CEO

  InsightLatent Space2026-10-22EN

  Latent Space interviews Modal CEO Erik Bernhardsson after its $750M Series D at a $16B valuation, with over $1B annualized run rate and nearly three billion sandboxes spun up.