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The Dirty Secret of Forward Deployed Engineering
- Day
- Day 2 — Session Day 1 · Tue, Jun 30
- Time
- 1:30pm-1:50pm
- Room
- Track 8 · Room 2020
- Track
- Forward Deployed Engineering
Track theme
Forward-Deployed Engineering
How forward-deployed engineering is done in the field — first-hand accounts from Anthropic, Cursor, Factory, Ramp, Decagon, and Kepler.
Accessible with the Engineering pass and above.
About this session
Since its origins at Palantir, the term "Forward Deployed Engineer" has described wildly different jobs, yet today it's one of the fastest-growing roles in AI. What happened? And what does that reveal about the future of engineering?
Join Nat Meurer, Head of Agent Engineering at Sierra, for a historical tour of one of tech's most misunderstood roles, and why its biggest contradiction may explain where the industry is headed next.
