Also posted as FDE · AI Solutions Engineer · Deployment Engineer · AI Implementation Engineer
Builds agents on a client's real documents and systems, and gets them into production on site.
A Forward Deployed Engineer lands at a client, works out what their documents and systems look like, and ships an agent that works there. This path covers the engineering half of that job end to end: building the agent, connecting it to the client's systems, turning their documents into data, proving it works and running it for months. It closes with the consulting half: scoping and delivering with the client.
9 courses66 lessons~178 hours
What the job needs
Solid: course readyDashed: coming soon
Every requirement on this path has a course. Nothing to wait for.
9
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~178
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Every course on this path assumes you can write Python or TypeScript and work in a terminal. These foundations aren't written yet, so they sit outside the course count. Tick what you already know.
5 to learn · ~44h · 0 known
Syntax, packages with uv, reading API responses and the parts of the standard library you'll actually use.
Planned~12hUsed by 3 courses
Types, async and await, npm, and running a Node 24 project from the terminal.
Planned~12hUsed by 5 courses
Shell basics, branches, pull requests and the commands Claude Code runs on your behalf.
Planned~6hUsed by 8 courses
Methods, status codes, headers, JSON and calling a model provider with an API key.
Planned~6hUsed by 2 courses
Tables, joins, indexes and the schema design the memory and infrastructure courses build on.
Planned~8hUsed by 2 courses
Learned these elsewhere? The setup guides get Claude Code, Python with uv and Node with TypeScript running in about an hour, so you can start course one today.
Setup guidesEach requirement is covered by a course, placed after the ones it builds on. Overviews are open to everyone; sign in to start the lessons.
What an AI agent really is, how it uses tools and context, and how to make one dependable enough for high-stakes work.
2 modules · 6 lessons ~18h 6 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: A document review agent in Claude Code
Build real agents on production harnesses: Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK and Vercel's eve, with skills, subagents and human approval built in.
2 modules · 6 lessons ~20h 6 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: A drafting agent with human approval in eve
Design, build and ship Model Context Protocol servers that agents use well, and see how MCP's mental model differs from REST.
3 modules · 8 lessons ~26h 8 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: Ship an MCP server for an existing REST API
Turn a case's PDFs, scans, forms and emails into verified, structured, privacy-safe data your agents and search can trust.
2 modules · 8 lessons ~16h 8 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: Ingest a case file end to end
Build retrieval your agents can trust over a case's documents and a company's reference library, and measure that it finds what it should.
2 modules · 8 lessons ~24h 8 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: A measured retrieval service for cases and reference documents
Build software that asks a model for typed, probabilistic decisions instead of text, and knows when to trust the answer.
3 modules · 8 lessons ~16h 8 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: Triage a busy inbox with Jev
Turn "it seems better" into numbers you can defend: error analysis, code graders, calibrated LLM judges and honest statistics.
2 modules · 7 lessons ~20h 7 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: A full eval suite for your drafting agent
Take an agent from working demo to a system you can run for months: architecture, security, compliance, observability and safe change.
2 modules · 6 lessons ~18h 6 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: Production-readiness review and hardening
Land with a client, find the problem worth solving, scope what can ship, prove it with a pilot and hand it over so it keeps working.
3 modules · 9 lessons ~20h 9 quizzes Capstone
Modules
Capstone: The Harrowfield engagement pack
This path is what the role asks for, mapped to the courses we have. A requirement we haven't written the course for yet stays on the path as coming soon, so you can see the whole job, not just the part we cover.
