Deming’s List

The FDE market map: companies, verified roles, and specialist search.

For engineers and deployment operators

Join the FDE talent network.

For people who can move between code, customer context, and production reality—and want to hear about roles that genuinely require all three.

The work matters more than the exact title.

You may already be an FDE—or you may be doing the same work under a different name.

Build

You write, integrate, deploy, debug, or operate production systems rather than stopping at a demo.

Translate

You turn ambiguous business and domain problems into an honest technical boundary and delivery plan.

Own

You stay close enough to rollout and adoption to learn whether the system actually worked.

Relevant titles vary

Forward Deployed Engineer, FDSE, AI Deployment Engineer, Applied AI Engineer, Product or Deployment Engineer, and certain hands-on Customer or Solutions Engineering roles can all qualify. A matching title without production ownership does not.

A short note is enough.

Share a LinkedIn, GitHub, portfolio, or résumé; your current location; one deployment or customer outcome you are proud of; and the kinds of roles, locations, and travel cadence you would consider.

Do not email passwords, identity documents, financial information, medical information, confidential customer data, or private source code. Sensitive details such as compensation and work authorization can wait for a direct conversation when relevant.

No résumé roulette.

  1. Your note is reviewed

    The first question is whether the work fits the FDE and AI deployment niche—not whether your current title contains the right keyword.

  2. A relevant role starts a conversation

    You receive the real company, role, constraints, and compensation information available at that time.

  3. You decide what may be shared

    Interest in one role is not blanket consent. Any presentation is company-and-role specific.

  4. Unknowns stay explicit

    Availability, location, authorization, compensation, and fit are verified directly rather than inferred from public data.

Candidate network

Doing the work?

Introduce yourself now, or simply use the verified board without joining anything.