External FDE
An engineer from a software or AI vendor who works inside a customer's company to build a working solution on the vendor's product and get it into production.
Also called
- Vendor FDE
Kind of
- Forward deployed engineer An engineer who works inside a business unit to build a working solution for the company through to production.
The other half
- Internal FDE An engineer on your company's own staff who sits inside a business unit to build and run AI systems for that team's work.
Related
- Use-case owner A named person, usually a business leader, who is accountable for one use of AI in your company, including its results, its risks and its compliance.