THE RISE OF THE FORWARD DEPLOYED ENGINEER — AND HOW TO DO THE JOB RIGHT

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Forward-deployed engineers have the hottest job in AI right now. While labs, startups, and PE firms are all hiring engineers to sit inside their customers' operations and solve their problems, almost none of them agree on what those engineers are supposed to accomplish. This article looks at what works and what fails and tries to predict where the industry is heading. It covers misunderstandings about the role, its history, what the goal of the role is, and more.