One of the new, buzzy jobs in Silicon Valley is the AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), an engineer who is embedded within a client organization to he...

AI Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) are a growing role in Silicon Valley, with OpenAI and Anthropic building teams to embed engineers within client organizations to customize AI solutions. Andrew Ng argues the demand for generalist AI Engineers will far exceed that for FDEs, and predicts AI engineering will eventually fragment into specialized roles like LLMOps and Evals Engineers.