Название: The Forward Deployed Engineer: Building and Deploying AI Inside Someone Else’s Enterprise (Early Release)
Автор: Paden Gayle
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2026-10-01
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf, epub
Размер: 10.1 MB

Forward deployed engineering is becoming one of the most in-demand roles in applied AI. Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Palantir are embedding engineers inside customer organizations to turn models into production systems. Yet many engineers still don't know what the role involves, how to prepare for it, or what success looks like.

The Forward Deployed Engineer by Paden Gayle is a guide to building and deploying AI inside someone else's enterprise, where the data, systems, and approval chain belong to the customer, and the outcome still belongs to you. The forward deployed engineer (FDE) is the closest thing in engineering to being a founder. You'll learn how to lead discovery, define scope, design agents, work with governed data, pass security reviews, and own delivery from start to finish. The tools will age. The judgment will not.

Understand how FDEs differ from AI engineers and solutions architects
Turn unclear customer needs into a focused statement of work
Build agents and workers for real enterprise systems
Get messy, governed, and legacy data ready for production AI
Navigate security, compliance, and stakeholder requirements
Prepare for FDE interviews and grow into broader ownership