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Forward Deployed Engineers (FDE's) start as great recruiters
The forward deployed engineer is the new and hot role in AI, and most job descriptions ask for eight to twelve years of software experience. Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas think that requirement is looking in the wrong place. In this episode of The Missing Manual, they make the case that the person best equipped to get a forward deployed engineer role right is often a great recruiter who has never written a line of code.
A forward deployed engineer gets to know a specific user's problem in full, understands its one-size-fits-one nature, then reverse-engineers a build to solve it and ships…
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