--- title: The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again description: Forward deployed engineering (FDE) is seeing a major resurgence driven by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Google Cloud is aggressively hiring FDEs with a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-pulse-forward-deployed-engineering-heats-up-again-ok0tbhrw6 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again | daily.dev og:description: Forward deployed engineering (FDE) is seeing a major resurgence driven by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Google Cloud is aggressively hiring FDEs with a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-pulse-forward-deployed-engineering-heats-up-again-ok0tbhrw6 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/OK0TbhRw6.png og:image:alt: The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Pulse: Forward deployed engineering heats up again **[The Pragmatic Engineer](https://daily.dev/sources/pragmaticengineer)** · 9 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Forward deployed engineering (FDE) is seeing a major resurgence driven by Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic. Google Cloud is aggressively hiring FDEs with a streamlined two-interview process. OpenAI launched a standalone Deployment Company backed by $4B in private equity and acquired UK-based Tomoro (150 FDEs) as its first acquisition. Anthropic is similarly creating an external FDE consulting entity backed by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs. The author argues the modern FDE role is essentially a consultant or solutions architect role — heavy on integration and customer hand-holding, light on greenfield engineering — and that FDEs at these outsourced entities won't share in the upside if the AI labs succeed. Despite this, FDE roles represent a genuine opportunity for early-career engineers who want real-world experience, a big-name resume entry, and exposure to AI deployment. Demand is expected to grow industry-wide as AI rollouts accelerate. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Forward deployed engineer is AI’s hottest job as OpenAI and Google race to hire. 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