DeployedArticles
What the deployed-engineering market actually looks like, written from the postings on this board rather than from anecdote.
What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?
The role explained: where it came from, what the work is actually like, what it pays, and how it differs from Solutions Architect, Sales Engineer, and Applied AI Engineer.
Inference Engineer vs ML Engineer vs AI Engineer
One builds the model, one consumes it, one serves it. Of 120 live Applied AI Engineer postings, four mentioned any serving vocabulary at all.
What does an Inference Engineer do?
Nobody in this job trains anything. The weights arrive finished, and the work is making them serve fast, cheap, and reliably.
Forward Deployed Engineer salary report 2026
Every published salary range on the board, deduplicated to one band per employer — and what the medians hide.
FDE vs Solutions Architect vs Sales Engineer, by the numbers
Two numbers — how much you code and how much you sell — split this job family in half. Here is where each title lands, and how far apart two postings sharing a title can be.
The Forward Deployed Engineer interview, explained
The prototyping round and the customer scenario decide most offers. Here is what each stage is scoring.
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