# 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

The other half: Internal FDE

Related: Use-case owner

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/external-fde (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)