Your forward deployed engineering talent partner
FDEs, solutions engineers and implementation leads are the rarest mix in the market: engineer enough to build, commercial enough to sit with the customer. We know where they are, because we’ve placed them.
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Build-heavy or customer-heavy? Which stack, which deployment reality, how much travel — and what the person owns once they’re on-site with your biggest account.
People screened for both halves of the job: can they code the integration, and can they hold the room. Comp and notice confirmed.
Panels, offer and notice period run for you. Invoiced on joining.
The Forward Deployed Engineering roles we work.
Three things that change when specialists work the role.
Engineers who can be trusted in front of a customer are scarce — our specialists know who they are and what moves them.
Technical depth and customer judgment, graded separately — you see the evidence for each.
Travel, time zones and on-site expectations confirmed up front, so nothing surprises anyone at offer stage.
The specifics, not the category.
Roles and stacks our recruiters in this domain work directly. If yours isn’t listed, it’s worth asking — the network is wider than the page.
Frequently asked questions
Both sit between the product and the customer, but the balance differs. A forward deployed engineer is build-heavy — they write the integration on the customer’s site. A solutions or sales engineer is customer-heavy and more often pre-sales. The brief pins down which half of the job dominates before anyone is approached, because the candidate pools barely overlap.
Separately, and you see the evidence for each. The screen grades whether they can code the integration and whether they can hold the room as two distinct lines on the scorecard, because a candidate who is strong on one and weak on the other fails this role in a way a generalist screen will not catch.
It is the rarest mix in the market — engineer enough to build, commercial enough to sit with your biggest account — and the people who can do it are rarely looking. They also tend to come from a small number of companies, which is why the search is a mapping exercise rather than a sourcing one.
Yes. Travel load, time zones and on-site expectations are confirmed during the screen rather than raised at offer stage, because deployment reality is the thing that most often kills an accepted FDE offer.
Make hiring the thing you’re good at.
Seed, Series A to D, or enterprise — send us one hard role. We'll match it the same day, and you'll meet a shortlist in days. Pay only when they join.