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Forward Deployed Engineering — a dedicated track

Forward Deployed Engineers are not general staff augmentation. FDEs embed directly with your customers or internal product teams to configure, integrate and ship against a specific customer or use case — closer to consulting delivery than headcount fill.

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  • Starting at $39/hour
  • No EOR fees in India
  • Vetted profiles in 48–72 hours
  • Top 5% talent, screened and recorded
  • One-week free replacement

What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

Forward Deployed Engineers embed directly with your customers or internal product teams to configure, integrate and ship against a specific use case. TalentStores places FDEs individually or as pods of two to six engineers, India-based with US, UK and EU time-zone overlap, starting at $39/hour.

What's different

What makes TalentStores FDE different

Engineers selected for client-facing delivery experience, not just technical depth

Embedded pods of two to six engineers, or individual placements

Available for AI and agentic implementation, platform integration and post-sale technical delivery

India-based, with US, UK and EU time-zone overlapping availability

Underlying disciplines

FDE is a tag, not a function

Choose the engineering discipline you need; the FDE model defines how they are selected and deployed.

Software Engineering

Integration, configuration and product delivery inside a customer environment.

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Data & AI

Applied AI, agentic implementation and data integration at the customer edge.

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Infrastructure & Cloud

Deployment, networking and platform enablement for complex rollouts.

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Requirement

Start an FDE engagement

The engagement model is pre-filled as Forward Deployed Engineering.

  1. 1Function
  2. 2Industry
  3. 3Role
  4. 4Engagement
  5. 5Location
  6. 6Your details

What role do you need?

Pick the function you're hiring for.

FAQ

Questions buyers actually ask

What is a Forward Deployed Engineer?

A Forward Deployed Engineer embeds with a specific customer or product team to configure, integrate and ship against their use case. The work sits closer to consulting delivery than headcount fill: the engineer owns an outcome for that account, not a queue of tickets.

How is FDE different from staff augmentation?

Staff augmentation adds capacity to your existing team under your management. An FDE is deployed to a customer or product context and is accountable for delivery there, which means client-facing communication skill matters as much as engineering depth in the selection.

Can I hire an FDE pod rather than one engineer?

Yes. Pods of two to six engineers are the most common shape, typically mixing platform integration, data and application skills so the pod can cover a full implementation. Individual placements are available where the deployment is narrower.

Which functions can be deployed as FDE?

Forward Deployed Engineering is an engagement model rather than a function, applied to software engineering, data and AI, or infrastructure and cloud profiles. You choose the underlying discipline; the FDE tag defines how the engineer is deployed and selected.

Engineers who ship at the customer edge.

Individual placements or embedded pods of two to six, with US, UK and EU time-zone overlap.

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