Forward Deployed Engineering by Industry
The FDE role changes when the workflow, data, systems, and consequences change. Explore what forward deployed work looks like inside a real industry — and what evidence you need to do it well.
Why does industry context matter for an FDE?
A general FDE can discover customer problems, design systems, ship production software, and drive adoption. An industry-ready FDE must do those things inside a specific operating environment.
That means understanding how work is actually performed, where data comes from, which systems cannot be replaced, which decisions require human review, and which outcomes matter to the people using the solution. The same AI capability can require a very different architecture in a hospital, a bank, or a government agency.
Industry FDE Playbooks connect six layers:
Workflow
How people complete the job today, including handoffs, queues, exceptions, and workarounds.
Systems
The applications, APIs, data stores, identity controls, and legacy infrastructure already in place.
Constraints
Privacy, safety, reliability, auditability, regulation, and organizational limits that shape the design.
Delivery
How an FDE moves from discovery and prototype to evaluation, production integration, monitoring, and handoff.
Evidence
The artifacts that show you can reason about and deliver in the industry, not just discuss it.
Roles
Current exact FDE and adjacent deployment roles, kept separate so the market signal remains honest.
Turn industry understanding into deployable evidence
Choose an industry
Start with an industry you know or want to enter.
Map the work
Understand the workflows, users, systems, data, and failure modes.
See your gap
Translate your FDE assessment into industry-specific strengths and missing evidence.
Complete a mission
Make discovery, architecture, evaluation, and rollout decisions in a realistic scenario.
Build evidence
Save your assumptions, system boundary, risk controls, metrics, and delivery plan.
Find matching roles
Explore verified exact FDE and adjacent deployment roles in FDE Radar.
Choose an industry playbook
We publish a playbook only when it has enough verified workflows, constraints, sources, practice missions, and hiring evidence to provide independent value.
Healthcare
Forward deployed engineering across clinical and operational workflows, interoperability, protected health data, production AI, and adoption.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Healthcare FDEarrow_forwardFinancial Services
Forward deployed engineering across banking, payments, financial crime, risk, customer operations, and legacy financial systems.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Financial Services FDEarrow_forwardGovernment & Defense
Forward deployed engineering across public-service and mission workflows, secure environments, legacy systems, constrained operations, and accountable adoption.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Government & Defense FDEarrow_forwardEducation
Deploy learning, data, and AI workflows across LMS platforms, student systems, educators, and institutions.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Education FDEarrow_forwardManufacturing
Bring software, AI, and data systems into factories, production lines, industrial operations, and the realities of the plant floor.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Manufacturing FDEarrow_forwardMedia, Entertainment & Culture
Connect content operations, rights, metadata, production, distribution, and audience intelligence to real delivery workflows.
6 workflows · 10 systems · 10 constraints
8 skills · 3 missions · 12 FAQs
No currently verified roles in this category. Explore the playbook and check back after the next Radar update.
Explore Media, Entertainment & Culture FDEarrow_forwardStart with the industry, then prove the skill
Knowing the vocabulary is useful. Being able to map a workflow, define a safe system boundary, choose meaningful evaluation criteria, and plan a production rollout is stronger evidence.