Anthropic
Used in Week 01
There will be 1M forward-deployed engineers
in the next 5 years.
Be among the first ones.
Built around the tools behind the stack
Lyzr
Neo4j
Qdrant
Braintrust
Databricks
Salesforce
AccentureLyzrNeo4jQdrantBraintrustDatabricksSalesforceAccentureLyzrNeo4jQdrantBraintrustDatabricksSalesforceAccentureThe gap
Every enterprise has an agent that works in the demo. Almost nobody can deploy it to production.
Forward Deployed Engineers are the ones who do. The FDE Collective Fellowship trains you to become one in 10 weeks.
01
The role exists. The skill doesn't.
1M+ FDE roles are expected by 2030, and teams can't hire fast enough. The engineers who can take agents from demo to production are the bottleneck.
02
The job crosses the whole stack.
Models, retrieval, orchestration, evals, security, deployment, and customer handover. The fellowship maps every stage to the tools enterprises actually run.
03
It's learned by shipping.
Every module ends in a reviewed build, and you're certified on a full capstone engagement, not a quiz.
The role
What is an FDE?
ROLE PROFILE
Specializes in infrastructure, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and enterprise-grade reliability at scale.
Full-stack engineer vs Forward-deployed engineer
The job starts where your current stack ends.
Forward-deployed engineerFDE
Backend depth, plus the production agent layer.Drag the divider
22skills in view
10+FDE skills revealed
Drag left to reveal the skills that turn a strong software engineer into the person who can scope, build, harden, deploy, and own an enterprise agent system.
Core engineering skillOpen FDE skill gapAdditional FDE skill
Hands-on with the stack
Master the tools enterprises actually run.
10 modules. 50+ production tools. Every one used in a real build.
01
Agent Foundations
OpenAI
Used in Week 01
Hugging Face
Used in Week 01
Cohere
Used in Week 01
Mistral AI
Used in Week 01
02
Knowledge & Retrieval
LlamaIndex
Used in Week 02
Qdrant
Used in Week 02
Elastic
Used in Week 02
Neo4j
Used in Week 02
Weaviate
Used in Week 02
03
Agent Architecture
Anthropic
Used in Week 03
Lyzr
Used in Week 03
Composio
Used in Week 03
Mem0
Used in Week 03
Temporal
Used in Week 03
04
Multi-Agent & Integration
CrewAI
Used in Week 04
Used in Week 04
Modal
Used in Week 04
Browserbase
Used in Week 04
Lyzr
Used in Week 04
05
Evaluation & Quality
Braintrust
Used in Week 05
Arize Phoenix
Used in Week 05
Langfuse
Used in Week 05
Scale AI
Used in Week 05
Galileo
Used in Week 05
The path
From where you are to the person who ships it.
- Today
Strong engineer, stalled demos
You can build an agent. It never clears integration and review.
- Enroll
10 modules, 100 competencies
The gates a production deployment actually has to pass.
- Build
A real system, reviewed
Every module ends in shipped work, not a quiz.
- Certify
Graded capstone
One full engagement, scope to handover, assessed end to end.
- Deployed
The person they trust
You own agent systems inside the customer estate.
10-Week Fellowship Curriculum
Ten modules. Ten weeks.
Week 01 of 10Model behaviour, prompting and context
Agent Foundations
"Every failure downstream traces back to a model or context decision made here."
Focus Level
Production Delivery
Key Competencies Cleared (10 Mapped)
LLM behaviour, tokens & context windows
Model landscape & selection framework
Reasoning models & thinking budgets
Reasoning & planning patterns (ReAct, CoT, Reflexion)
System prompts & enterprise persona design
Structured outputs, schema enforcement & function calling
Context engineering: budgeting, compaction & pruning
Grounding, citations & source attribution
Prompt optimisation, versioning & rollout control
Multilingual & regional model choices
Tools Mastered This Week
AnthropicOpenAIHugging FaceCohereMistral AIWeekly Live Build Project
Build and test an end-to-end agent foundations module conforming to enterprise SLAs, token latency budgets, and security gates.
Practitioners, Not Trainers
Learn from the engineers shipping production agents every week.
Siva Surendira
Lyzr
CEO and Co-Founder
Laurie Voss
ARIZE
Head of Developer Relations
Aryaman Behera
Repello
Co-Founder and CEO
Someshwaran M.
ELASTIC
Senior Developer Advocate
Neil Kanungo
Qdrant
Head of Growth & Developer Relations
Plus weekly guest firesides & code clinics with engineering leaders from OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture.
Mentors
The engineers you can actually ask.
Mayur Madnani
Candescent
Principal Software Engineer
Jayita Bhattacharyya
Domyn
MTS
Akash Reddy M
RANGR Data
Senior FDE
Ekta Shah
MSCI
Data Scientist
Wall of Love
Trusted by builders from workshops and live field sessions.
The Fellowship Value Stack
Everything you need to become the engineer enterprises hire first.
01 · Paid work
Access to the Lyzr FDE Marketplace
Get matched to paid enterprise projects on the Lyzr marketplace. Every project you ship raises your ranking and brings in the next one.
02 · Career access
Jobs at Lyzr and partner companies
Top performers skip the queue into interview rounds at Lyzr and partner companies building dedicated FDE teams.
03 · Learn by doing
Simulation-based, real-world learning
Every week is a simulated enterprise engagement: a messy brief, real constraints, and a customer who changes their mind. Your code gets reviewed by engineers who ship for a living.
04 · Build for real
Cloud and AI tool credits
Production credits from model providers, vector databases, and infra partners, so you build on the same stack enterprises pay for.
05 · Proof of skill
Certification and a portfolio that gets you hired
You're certified on a shipped capstone, not a quiz. You graduate with 10 reviewed builds you can walk any hiring manager through.
06 · Community
A network that outlasts the cohort
Lifetime access to the FDE Collective: peers, mentors, and partner engineers, plus Demo Day and graduation in Bengaluru, where you present to enterprise leaders.
Who is hiring
The companies winning at enterprise AI are hiring FDEs first.
100+
FDEs deployed by Lyzr
shipping production-grade agents across Fortune 500s with zero churn.
600%
Palantir stock growth
in the last two years, driven by its forward-deployed delivery model.
$550M
Wonderful raised
at a $5B valuation, an FDE company built to deliver complex agent systems.
Vertical AI
Harvey and Sierra
rely on FDEs to ship domain-specific agents inside enterprise accounts.
Why us
We are live with these enterprises.
USA GovAccenture
AirAsia
WTW
Publicis
Verifone
Crown Castle
KPMG
Prophetand many more
Cohort 1 · Founding Price
A $5,000 fellowship.
Cohort 1 pays $999.
One price. Everything included. No upsells.
Flagship Fellowship
What's included
- $2,000
10-week live cohort
10 modules, 100 enterprise competencies, led by practitioners
- $1,000
Simulation-based enterprise engagements
Weekly real-world briefs, plus 1:1 code reviews on your builds
- $500
Production FDE Certification
Assessed on a shipped capstone, plus a portfolio of 10 reviewed builds
- $500
Lyzr FDE Marketplace access
Get matched to paid enterprise projects after you graduate
- $500
Interview fast-track
Priority interview rounds at Lyzr and partner companies
- $500
Lifetime community + Demo Day
The FDE Collective network, plus graduation in Bengaluru
Total value$0
Bonus · Cloud and AI tool credits from model, vector DB and infra partners
IncludedQuestions
Before you apply.
The 10-week live cohort, 100 enterprise competencies, weekly simulation-based engagements, 1:1 code reviews, Production FDE Certification, a portfolio of 10 reviewed builds, Lyzr FDE Marketplace access, interview fast-tracks, lifetime community access, Demo Day and graduation in Bengaluru, plus cloud and AI tool credits.
Join the FDE Collective.
Register for the upcoming Free Masterclass, apply for Cohort 1, or join the Discord community.