The 'Forward Deployed Engineer' role is seeing a reported 800% spike in job listings. It's a hybrid, 'technical special ops' job at places like OpenAI and Palantir with $400k+ salaries. They're not Sales Engineers, they ship production code.
Posted by cheerfulboy@reddit | programming | View on Reddit | 9 comments
yerfatma@reddit
There must be a theory, like how all science fiction is actually about the time period it’s written in, about what it means for how we refer to people who write code. Used to be you got called a “software engineer” when they wanted to be fancy. This decade we are going with military terms. I assume Palntir’s principals will be called Reichmarshalls in the near future.
Full-Spectral@reddit
Assault Engineers
Adorable-Fault-5116@reddit
I did that job 15 years ago, they are just using a new name, which, if you only look at the use of that name, might make you think it's new. It's not, and there is no spike.
SolarPoweredKeyboard@reddit
You don't understand. These guys SHIP. PRODUCTION. CODE. We're entering whole new terrain here.
Imatros@reddit
Paradigms are being shifted!
yerfatma@reddit
Through the looking glass, even.
cyesk8er@reddit
Sounds like a new name for field engineering or sales engineering
R2_SWE2@reddit
Yes this is field engineer. Keep things humming along with the customer mostly. Some are instructed to upsell where possible.
Supadoplex@reddit
I think they used to be called consultants.