Field Service engineer + SWE = Forward Deployed Engineer
2026-10-03 07:53:33
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DasiaMonee :
So a consulting engineer!?
2026-10-03 19:52:58
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Hadoop :
Company’s with FDEs usually pay core product SWEs more
2026-10-03 11:54:42
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Digital Waterboarding :
You don’t need to be a software engineer first?
2026-10-04 02:19:49
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Skye and Joel ❤️ :
...so customer support?
2026-10-04 12:50:06
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Chad :
Ohhh a computer systems analyst / engineer. Yea that’s been around since computers.
2026-10-03 13:33:39
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Cat enthusiast :
Do I have to be an engineer to do this? I’m an account executive for a large company and I do a lot of this stuff already without being paid 400k😭
2026-10-03 13:38:41
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Tik Toker :
So just a documentation guy
2026-10-03 06:08:11
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Milo :
kinda what a tech writer does when utilized correctly
2026-10-03 15:41:36
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z3r0dark30 :
so glorified software implementation engineers?
2026-10-03 06:06:57
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Chris🏃♂️🏋️♂️ :
Yeah that’s a consultant. We’ve been doing that for a LONG time
2026-10-06 17:18:38
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Primary_Sources :
palantir did not in anyway invent the idea of sending an engineer to help with training and integration.
2026-10-04 03:25:25
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Hemant Chawla :
back in the days, it was implementation engineer. old wine in New bottle 😀
2026-10-03 22:06:54
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Pink Lovely_28 :
Sounds like a business analyst or business process consultant… just a new job title for AI integration and implementation
2026-10-03 18:56:49
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Tony :
It's just a dedicated Solution consultant. They make inky slightly more because their expected to have soft skills as well
2026-10-06 23:08:48
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Hawkster45 :
So an applications engineer with a different name?
2026-10-05 14:22:16
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s :
The FDEs at my company don’t know anything they should pluck the smart folks within the work stream that are AI forward they are the best FDEs
2026-10-03 22:28:45
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UltimateDadBod :
FDE contract roles are paying $60 an hour which is nothing. I've had six recruiters reach out at that rate for different companies. I don't know if FD in reality is a thing maybe it is but I haven't seen it manifest yet.
2026-10-03 17:33:57
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Chadster :
sounds like a glorified customer solutions architect/ engineer
2026-10-06 05:15:35
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Just Another Guy :
I had an interview for FDE at Turing. Questions for the role included: 1. How long were the vectors used by your last RAG project encoding model; 2. How do you load balance an api. All done by a ‘senior’ 28 year old individual who himself had no background doing this. No idea what matters most in filling these roles.
2026-10-03 20:43:18
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Light Bringer :
Lost me at work with people
2026-10-03 10:30:57
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MylesDad :
I did that back in the 90’s but we were just called implementors and we made about $40k
2026-10-04 12:33:28
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zygotewasntproduced :
so, IT Technicians?
2026-10-03 11:34:01
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user4605695346730 :
what would be the next step? is this something a 40+ swe would be able to go into?
2026-10-03 09:54:45
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