Forward Deployed Engineering
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Mirzadegan: Enterprise AI sales require forward-deployed engineers for technical hand-holding
“Which is why you see so many companies doing like this forward deployed engineer motion where what they're going in and doing is saying, okay, number one, like here's how we think about LLMs and where you can get best use of it. Number two, here's this enginee…”
Ghosh: AI Software Requires Palantir-Style Forward-Deployed Engineers
“Many of these new AI enabled businesses that you're building, whether it's pure software, whether it's services, Has a Palantir-esque, ah, ah, flavor to it. That, that in delivering this service and in delivering this software, ah, AI enabled software, you wil…”
Scharfstein: In-house forward-deployed engineering teams have a 5-to-10-year lifespan
“I think that this idea of having this forward deployed in house, it has a five to 10 year life because we just have so much software left to build.”
Qureshi: Cost of forward deployed engineering has dropped 5x to 10x
“The cost of doing things like forward deployed engineering has fallen by maybe five to 10 X now at least.”
Sankar: Palantir's forward deployed engineer role combines product, customer success, and engineering
“The Ford deployed engineering idea was that the people who are going to be interacting with customers in the field, we're going to be computer scientists. You could actually understand what does the product do today? What does it need to do today? How is it un…”