Find current FDE roles by searching official career sites, adjacent job titles, and company-specific requirements without relying on stale job-board listings.
By The Forward Deployed editorial teamReviewed
Where to search
| Company family | Titles to search | Official source |
|---|---|---|
| Palantir | Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Deployment Strategist | Palantir careers |
| OpenAI | Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Architect, Deployment roles | OpenAI careers search |
| Anthropic | Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI, Solutions Architect | Anthropic careers |
| Google Cloud | Forward Deployed Engineer, Customer Engineer, Applied AI | Google careers |
| AI and data startups | Forward Deployed Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Field Engineer | Use the company's own careers page |
Search adjacent titles
The same work appears under Applied AI Engineer, AI Deployment Engineer, Field Engineer, Resident Engineer, Solutions Architect, Implementation Engineer, Customer Engineer, and Deployment Strategist. Filter by responsibilities: direct customer work, production code, integration, discovery, rollout, adoption, and feedback into product. Exclude roles that are purely support or quota-carrying unless that is the career you want.
Evaluate the posting
- Does it explicitly require shipping production code or only demos and recommendations?
- Is the role pre-sale, post-sale, or responsible across the entire customer lifecycle?
- How much travel, how many simultaneous customers, and which locations are expected?
- What experience band, AI depth, security knowledge, and domain expertise are actually required?
- How are adoption, uptime, delivery, revenue expansion, and product feedback weighted?
Keep your research current
Save the posting as a PDF when you apply, record the date, and prepare against the responsibilities in that version. Company structures and interview loops change faster than evergreen career guides. Use Company Differences for context, then verify everything against the live role.