Forward Deployment Engineering
Forward Deployment Engineering on AI-ML Companion: Ship production AI inside a customer's environment. 22 interactive modules with live visualizations, quizzes, and hands-on Python coding.
Start free: The FDE Role Map is fully open to everyone, no account required. The other 21 modules are part of AI-ML Companion Premium; every title and summary is listed below so you can see exactly what the track covers before deciding.
Modules in this track
- The FDE Role Map (free) - Palantir history, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google split, salary bands US + India, title variants
- Customer Discovery & Decomposition (premium) - The 5-step decomposition framework Palantir invented - timed practice across verticals
- Eval-First Engineering (premium) - Build the LLM-as-Judge harness BEFORE the agent - regression suites, hallucination detection, CI gating
- MCP Servers, Sub-Agents & Agent Skills (premium) - Build a real MCP server for a fake enterprise CRM with auth, scoping, audit
- On-Prem & VPC Deployment Patterns (premium) - Air-gapped vLLM, private vector DB, SSO, audit logging, HIPAA/FedRAMP/SOC2 control map
- Production AI Ops Rigor (premium) - Rate limiting, backoff with jitter, prompt caching + versioning, A/B + rollback, per-tenant cost attribution
- Integrating with Legacy Enterprise Systems (premium) - SAP, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Snowflake - MCP + glue against ugly APIs and messy schemas
- Data Engineering for FDEs (premium) - Immutable landing zone, idempotent incremental loads with a watermark, loud quality checks, RAG index hygiene
- Engagement Economics & Scoping (premium) - What an engagement really costs, scoping backwards from a decision, hallway scope creep, the four margin levers
- Enablement, Handoff & Adoption (premium) - Adoption over uptime, operators vs their engineers vs the sponsor, the handover package, running the exit as a phase
- Demo Craft & Live Build (premium) - Live coding under observation, narration as a graded skill, recovering from on-stage failures
- Full-Stack for FDEs (premium) - Streamlit vs FastAPI vs embed vs bot, SSE past enterprise proxy timeouts, OIDC/SAML + tenant isolation, IT-review hardening
- Client Simulation & Executive Comms (premium) - Push back without breaking the relationship - ADR writing, exec summary, STAR with 'I' ownership
- Vertical Deep-Dive: Financial Services (premium) - FinServ as default for India market - KYC, AML, reconciliation, RBI/SEBI/SOX/MiFID, typical workflows
- FDE Coding Round Prep (premium) - Not an algorithms round - what it scores, shipping a vertical slice, narrating and taking hints, messy-data reconciliation
- FDE Interview Mastery (premium) - Palantir/OpenAI/Anthropic/Google loops, 8 STAR stories, take-home patterns, decomposition practice
- FDE Career Narrative + India & Global Job Hunt (premium) - 'Why FDE not SWE', harvesting stories, India tiers, applying across geos
- Bonus Vertical: Healthcare & Life Sciences (premium) - HIPAA, PHI handling, clinical decision support, EHR integration, FDA SaMD
- Bonus Vertical: Government & Defense (premium) - FedRAMP, IL5, air-gapped environments, defense procurement realities
- Bonus Vertical: Legal & Contracts (premium) - Contract analysis, citation grounding, attorney-client privilege, Harvey/Hebbia-style deployments
- Playbook: FDE Portfolio Minimum Viable Artifact (premium) - Playbook for the interview-submission portfolio - vertical agent + RAG + MCP server + eval harness + VPC deploy + ADR
- Playbook: 7-Day Embedded Engagement Simulation (premium) - Week-long structured exercise mirroring a real FDE engagement - scoping to deploy to exec summary