FDEs who can work on a plant floor.
Manufacturing AI has to fit shifts, lines and people who have run the plant for years. Forward deployed engineers here need to connect plant and enterprise systems, and earn the trust of operators.
Where FDEs help
Typical problems in manufacturing
Yield and quality
Finding where yield is lost and catching defects earlier.
Maintenance
Predicting failures from sensor and maintenance history.
Scheduling
Production plans that respond to what is actually happening on the lines.
Supply
Supplier risk, inventory and delivery performance in one view.
Systems
The systems they need to know
We match engineers who have worked with the systems in your brief, not only the programming languages.
- MES
- Plant historians
- PLC and SCADA data
- ERP
- Quality management (QMS)
- Maintenance systems (CMMS)
- Supply chain planning
What a good FDE here understands
- How data flows from machines to the enterprise
- Shift patterns and how plant decisions are made
- Why operators reject recommendations they cannot question
- Quality and safety rules on the line
Roles
Roles we place in manufacturing
Forward Deployed Engineer
Builds and ships AI applications and agents inside your systems.
About this roleForward Deployed AI Engineer
Makes model behavior reliable in production: evaluation, retrieval, guardrails.
About this roleForward Deployed Data Engineer
Gets your data into a state AI can use: pipelines, quality, access.
About this roleForward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer
Deploys and runs AI platforms in hard environments: private, on-premises, regulated.
About this roleDeployment Strategist
Finds the problem worth solving, sets the measure, and drives adoption.
About this roleFDE Hubs
A deployment strategist with a small team of engineers, working as one unit.
About this roleHire FDEs
Tell us the problem. We will match the engineers.
Someone who understands forward deployed work reads every brief and replies with a view on the engineers you need, how many, and the hiring option that fits.