Forward Deployed Engineering

Distinguish the delivery responsibilities of a data/AI Forward Deployed Engineer from those of product, platform, and solutions-engineering roles.

Conduct a structured discovery conversation to identify a customer's users, workflow, pain points, constraints, and success criteria.

Convert an ambiguous customer request into testable functional requirements and acceptance criteria.

Prioritize requirements for a deployment using impact, risk, effort, and dependency information.

Identify non-functional requirements for latency, throughput, availability, security, privacy, and cost.

Map a proposed data/AI workflow into source, processing, storage, model, service, and user-facing components.

Document architecture decisions and unresolved risks in a concise decision record.

Define a thin vertical slice that can validate the highest-risk assumption in a customer solution.