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Forward Deployed Engineers: The AI Era’s Fastest Growing Tech Role

Every major technology wave creates new roles.

The internet gave us webmasters.

Cloud computing created DevOps engineers.

Big Data created data scientists.

Artificial Intelligence is now creating another high-impact role: the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE).

While reading OpenAI’s job posting for a Forward Deployed Engineer, I was struck by how this role reflects a broader shift happening across the technology industry.

The AI race is no longer about building better models.

It is increasingly about deploying them successfully inside real organizations.

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