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With the Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) role trending in discussions, here's our deepdive from a month ago in @pragmaticengineer.com on the origins of the role, how it looks at Palantir, OpenAI and Ramp, and why the role is so hot *now*: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/forward-de...

9/9/25, 1:01 pm2 reposts11 likes

Ulises Rodriguez

@ulisesr.bsky.social

24 Sept 2025

Oh man, thanks for helping me get a job at the world’s most unethical company! wait, for anyone that wants to know what a FDE is without this drawn out explanation: it’s a more technical solution engineer where you travel to ICE, NSA, CIA, etc. facilities where you help a fascist regime😇