Here’s one career emerging from the AI shift: ‘forward-deployed engineers’

On Thursday, Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian issued a call for “forward-deployed engineers” to apply for jobs in the company’s go-to-market AI team. Their task: help non-tech organizations scale up their AI deployments. That term — forward-deployed engineers, FDE for short — has been coming up a lot lately in conversations with CTOs, software engineers, and experts tracking the technology and job markets. Google currently has 1,513 openings for that specific role and OpenAI, which just this...