Forward Deployed Engineer Discussions

What engineers say about the FDE role on Hacker News: threads about forward deployed engineering, and other threads where commenters discuss it.

Threads about FDEs (20)

Ask HN: Just saw a YC25 job posting front page that looks like a 7-day work week
Hacker News · 2026-08-22 · 82 points · 56 comments
Ask HN: Can't get hired – what's next?
Hacker News · 2025-10-15 · 54 points · 149 comments
Show HN: Product analytics (and evals) for agent sessions on your MCP
Hacker News · 2026-08-03 · 42 points · 8 comments
Rise of the Forward Deployed Engineer
Hacker News · 2026-04-29 · 24 points · 36 comments
Ask HN: Why is the term forward deployed engineer (FDE) popular all of a sudden?
Hacker News · 2026-06-12 · 4 points · 4 comments
A Week in the Life of a Forward Deployed Engineer (10 clients, 50 hours)
Hacker News · 2026-01-19 · 4 points · 4 comments
Show HN: Motie – Replit for Web Scraping
Hacker News · 2025-12-17 · 4 points · 4 comments
Show HN: Vector Defense – retro tower defense game
Hacker News · 2026-01-05 · 3 points · 1 comments
Ask HN: Are You a Forward Deployed Engineer?
Hacker News · 2026-10-30 · 3 points · 2 comments
Ask HN: What's the Deal with Forward Deployed Engineers?
Hacker News · 2026-03-27 · 2 points · 7 comments
Show HN: A book that builds GPT-2, Llama 3, DeepSeek from scratch in PyTorch
Hacker News · 2026-04-15 · 2 points · 1 comments
New software roles being created by AI?
Hacker News · 2025-10-22 · 2 points · 1 comments
Show HN: Vector Defense – retro tower defense game demo
Hacker News · 2025-12-31 · 2 points · 0 comments
The State of AI in SaaS
Hacker News · 2025-10-19 · 2 points · 0 comments
What's the Deal with Forward Deployed Engineers?
Hacker News · 2026-03-27 · 1 points · 6 comments
Show HN: Forward Deployed Engineering Jobs
Hacker News · 2026-10-08 · 1 points · 4 comments
Show HN: Chloe is a TypeScript AI agent
Hacker News · 2026-10-07 · 1 points · 0 comments
What are the best resources to learn about FDE role?
Hacker News · 2025-09-02 · 1 points · 0 comments
Founding Account Executive – Remote (US only) – Full-time – $130–160K and Equity
Hacker News · 2025-06-20 · 1 points · 0 comments
Ask HN: At Palantir, what is the difference between...
Hacker News · 2012-03-16 · 1 points · 0 comments

Where FDEs come up in comments (80)

Inside Palantir
Hacker News · 2016-05-07 · 11 comments mention FDEs
NYPD is canceling its Palantir contract
Hacker News · 2017-07-06 · 10 comments mention FDEs
Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Hacker News · 2026-10-24 · 7 comments mention FDEs
Palantir is using War on Terror tools to track American citizens
Hacker News · 2018-04-19 · 6 comments mention FDEs
Ask HN: Palantir or Facebook?
Hacker News · 2014-08-28 · 5 comments mention FDEs
Leaked S-1 screenshots show Palantir losing $579M in 2019
Hacker News · 2020-08-21 · 5 comments mention FDEs
Palantir Pricelist (page 27) [pdf]
Hacker News · 2014-09-18 · 4 comments mention FDEs
OpenAI Presence
Hacker News · 2026-07-22 · 4 comments mention FDEs
‘ELITE’: The Palantir app ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid
Hacker News · 2026-01-16 · 4 comments mention FDEs
How Palantir Is Taking Over New York City
Hacker News · 2016-09-24 · 4 comments mention FDEs
NSA director heckled on stage at Black Hat security conference
Hacker News · 2013-08-01 · 3 comments mention FDEs
The OpenAI Deployment Company
Hacker News · 2026-05-11 · 3 comments mention FDEs
I spent 5 years in DevOps – Solutions engineering gave me what I was missing
Hacker News · 2026-02-09 · 3 comments mention FDEs
What does Palantir actually do?
Hacker News · 2025-08-15 · 3 comments mention FDEs
How a nuclear submarine officer learned to live in tight quarters
Hacker News · 2020-04-15 · 3 comments mention FDEs
Palantir Wins $876M U.S. Army Contract
Hacker News · 2018-03-10 · 3 comments mention FDEs
The 7-bit Internet
Hacker News · 2013-07-10 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir and Prism: A Possible Link
Hacker News · 2013-06-07 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
Hacker News · 2026-10-26 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Waymo in Singapore
Hacker News · 2026-09-18 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir's Karp – frontier AI labs that are 'trying to drug addict us'
Hacker News · 2026-08-23 · 2 comments mention FDEs
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data
Hacker News · 2026-08-07 · 2 comments mention FDEs
The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
Hacker News · 2026-07-20 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Claude Corps
Hacker News · 2026-06-15 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos
Hacker News · 2026-06-11 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
Hacker News · 2026-05-01 · 2 comments mention FDEs
The coming PLG to SLG apocalypse
Hacker News · 2026-03-30 · 2 comments mention FDEs
MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security
Hacker News · 2026-03-16 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir could be the most overvalued company that ever existed
Hacker News · 2025-12-09 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Dutch spy services have restricted intelligence-sharing with the United States
Hacker News · 2025-10-20 · 2 comments mention FDEs
The AI Job Title Decoder Ring
Hacker News · 2025-08-21 · 2 comments mention FDEs
The U.S. needs a shipbuilding revolution
Hacker News · 2025-02-04 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Two undersea cables in Baltic Sea disrupted
Hacker News · 2024-11-19 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Trump wins presidency for second time
Hacker News · 2024-11-08 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Reflections on Palantir
Hacker News · 2024-10-16 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir seeing 'unprecedented' demand for its military AI
Hacker News · 2023-05-13 · 2 comments mention FDEs
US navy released worst rust photo to date
Hacker News · 2023-01-01 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Ask HN: Startup Jobs as a Solution Architect
Hacker News · 2022-04-30 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir S-1
Hacker News · 2020-08-26 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir Announces Confidential Submission of Draft S-1
Hacker News · 2020-07-07 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir’s User Manual for Cops
Hacker News · 2019-07-12 · 2 comments mention FDEs
New study shows grim outlook for future of Air Force pilot shortage
Hacker News · 2019-04-17 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir Has a $20B Valuation and a Bigger Problem: It Keeps Losing Money
Hacker News · 2018-11-13 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Palantir Raises $90 Million
Hacker News · 2010-06-28 · 2 comments mention FDEs
Why I’m not speaking at CPDP: It’s the privacy-washing
Hacker News · 2016-01-27 · 2 comments mention FDEs
F-35 stealth jet 'will not be able to fire its guns until 2019'
Hacker News · 2015-01-01 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Are we at Peak Google?
Hacker News · 2014-10-23 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Thin-Film Solar Startup Debuts With $4 Billion in Contracts
Hacker News · · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: Travel opportunities for software developers?
Hacker News · 2014-04-15 · 1 comment mention FDEs
37signals Works Remotely [video]
Hacker News · 2013-10-22 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit
Hacker News · 2013-06-11 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: What to do next in my career?
Hacker News · 2013-06-01 · 1 comment mention FDEs
The secret to a higher salary is to ask for nothing at all
Hacker News · 2013-04-25 · 1 comment mention FDEs
22 and no life
Hacker News · 2013-03-27 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: Is there a job title for product manager & software engineer?
Hacker News · 2013-03-23 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz
Hacker News · 2026-10-25 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: Are there any programming positions that are safe from AI?
Hacker News · 2026-10-20 · 1 comment mention FDEs
I let an AI run my startup for a week
Hacker News · 2026-10-14 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Bot traffic from Yandex
Hacker News · 2026-10-11 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen
Hacker News · 2026-10-09 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: What's a good title for a software engineer now?
Hacker News · 2026-10-03 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Red Hat being phased out of existence?
Hacker News · 2026-10-01 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Anthropic's IPO Prospectus Is a Fucking Doozy
Hacker News · 2026-10-01 · 1 comment mention FDEs
JevOps Engineer
Hacker News · 2026-09-22 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Agreement between the USA and Denmark (1951,2004) [pdf]
Hacker News · 2026-09-19 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously
Hacker News · 2026-09-14 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: Career paths to consider if I am better at supporting than creating?
Hacker News · 2026-09-13 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists
Hacker News · 2026-09-09 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
Hacker News · 2026-09-07 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Developer CEO vs Sales Guy CEO
Hacker News · 2012-12-22 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Hannah Fry Wins the Leelavati Prize in 2026 for Mathematics Outreach
Hacker News · 2026-07-25 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Jaron Lanier: there is no AI (2023)
Hacker News · 2026-07-20 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone
Hacker News · 2026-07-14 · 1 comment mention FDEs
How Ukraine Built a War Fighting State
Hacker News · 2026-07-13 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Alex Karp Is Saying What Every Angry CEO Is Thinking About AI
Hacker News · 2026-07-11 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model
Hacker News · 2026-07-08 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Ask HN: Do you guys struggle with finding a right person for your FDE role?
Hacker News · 2026-07-07 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Zuckerberg 'Admits' Meta's Layoffs Were Ineffective
Hacker News · 2026-07-03 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Please stop the AI confidence theater
Hacker News · 2026-07-03 · 1 comment mention FDEs
Goodebye Forever Probably: Why I’m leaving developer relations
Hacker News · 2026-07-03 · 1 comment mention FDEs