COMPANY MAP
One company may contain an entire FDE role family.
That is the market signal: forward-deployed work is becoming an organization with specialized engineering, domain, infrastructure, and delivery roles, not one generic job.
OpenAI
FDE, Forward Deployed Software Engineer, healthcare and government variants, Technical Deployment Lead, and management roles separate software depth, domain constraints, and deployment leadership.
Cognition
A broader Customer Engineering organization includes applied AI, deployed, federal, partner, support, and infrastructure roles, different specialists around customer outcomes.
Scale AI
GenAI, frontier-agent, public-sector, ML, product, and leadership variants show specialization by technology, sector, and ownership surface.
PRIMARY-SOURCE DIRECTORY
Start with the official organization.
Role availability changes. The durable value here is the operating model; follow the source for current openings.
OpenAI
FDE · FDSWE · Healthcare · Gov · Technical Deployment Lead
Cognition
Applied AI · Deployed Engineer · Federal · Partner Deployed
Scale AI
GenAI · Frontier Agents · Public Sector · ML FDE · Product
Palantir
FDSWE · Infrastructure · Security · Deployment Strategist
Baseten
Embedded / Forward Deployed Engineering
Arize AI
Forward Deployed Engineering
Candid Health
Forward Deployed Engineering
Physical Intelligence
Deployment and product engineering