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Full AI apps
Search, testing, hosting and monitoring, built as one system.
Who it's for
For AI and ML engineers.
You can train a model. The next step is harder: making an AI system work in real use, inside a customer's company, for people who do not care how it works.
What you get
What you add to your skills.
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Deployment
Putting a system online, inside limits on speed, cost and security.
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Customer work
Data you did not choose, systems you cannot rewrite, and users who decide whether it worked.
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Certification exams
The Forward Deployed Engineer program prepares you for exams such as Claude Certified Architect.
The role
Who is a forward deployed engineer?
A forward deployed engineer (FDE) works inside a customer's company and makes an AI product work there. The job joins three kinds of work.
fig. / the forward deployed engineer sits where three jobs meet
Pick a circle to see what the job takes from it.
Writes and tests the code.
A forward deployed engineer builds real software every week, like any software engineer.
How is a forward deployed engineer different from an AI or ML engineer?
An AI or ML engineer builds and improves models and the apps around them, usually inside their own company. A forward deployed engineer takes such a system into a customer's company and makes it work there: their data, their systems, their rules. The first owns the model. The second owns the result for the customer.
Where to start
Two ways forward.
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Forward Deployed Engineer
You already build AI systems and want customer work.
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AI Engineering
You want to build the full app first: search, testing and hosting.
View the programWhat it takes
Time and format.
- Format
- Online and classroom
- Duration
- 1 to 6 months, depending on the program
- Start dates
- New batches start through the year. You get the next date when you apply.
Questions
It depends on how much of the system you build today. If you train models but others handle search, testing and hosting, AI Engineering fills those gaps. If you build all of it, go straight to Forward Deployed Engineer.
No. The program teaches it: understanding the need, working inside customer systems and agreeing what done means.
New batches start through the year. Apply and we send you the next start date for your program.