Embedded in your team
A forward deployed AI engineer works inside your business, not from a vendor’s backlog. They join your standups, learn your systems and data, and ship AI where the work actually happens.
Hire Forward Deployed AI Engineers
Senior AI engineers embedded in your team, shipping AI into production on your systems. Hire one dedicated forward deployed engineer (FDE), a team with 24/7 coverage, or engineers for a single project.
Claude Partner
40+ Forward Deployed AI Engineers
40+ Claude Certified Architects
ISO certification
9001 & 27001
Trusted by brands globally
What a forward deployed AI engineer does for you
A forward deployed engineer (FDE) is a senior engineer who works inside your business: on your systems, with your data and your team, until AI runs in production and keeps paying off.
Your team gets better at AI
They pair with your developers, document what they build and train the people who will run it, so the know-how stays in-house after the engagement ends.
Measured in business results
Every use case starts with a metric agreed upfront, such as hours saved, tickets resolved or revenue, and is reported against it, not just shipped.
Hire a forward deployed engineer full-time, 24/7 or per project
One dedicated engineer inside your team, a team that covers your AI around the clock, or a single project from scope to production.
Dedicated forward deployed engineer
full-time, inside your team
One senior AI engineer working full-time in your Slack, standups and repositories, with our Claude Certified Architects reviewing the design behind them. Add roles as your use cases grow.
Forward deployed team
with 24/7 coverage
Our engineers work on four continents, so we can staff a team with true 24/7 coverage: monitoring and on-call engineers for customer-facing or revenue-critical agents that cannot wait until morning.
Project-based AI engineering
one use case, start to finish
A proof of concept on real data, then integration, launch and handover with documentation and training, against success metrics agreed before work starts.
Not sure which model fits?
Tell us about your business and where AI should help, and we will work out with you which model suits you best.
Why hire forward deployed AI engineers?
AI rarely fails on the model. It fails between the demo and the business, and that gap is exactly where these engineers work.
- 1
Consultants leave slides, not systems
A strategy deck does not answer customers or process orders. A forward deployed engineer is measured on what runs in production.
- 2
Hiring AI engineers takes months
Senior AI engineers are scarce and slow to recruit. Ours are already hired, certified and working on AI every day.
- 3
Generic AI talent does not know commerce
Catalogs, checkouts, ERPs and order flows are where AI pays off for an online business, and where generalists get stuck.
- 4
Demos break on real data
Messy catalogs, legacy integrations and permissions are the actual work. Engineers who sit with your team find them on day one.
- 5
One engineer is a single point of failure
Behind every engineer we deploy are 40+ colleagues, Claude Certified Architects and senior oversight, so knowledge never walks out the door.
AI engineering roles you can hire
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Embedded with your team end to end: discovery, build, launch and iteration on your live systems.
AI Implementation Engineer
Takes a defined use case to production: integrations, guardrails, testing and rollout.
Dedicated AI Solutions Engineer
A long-term engineer on your account who owns your AI roadmap and keeps improving what is live.
Claude Certified Architect
Designs agent architecture, MCP connections and permissions before the first line of code.
Two ways to start with forward deployed AI engineers
Put engineers on the project you already have, or start with an exploration where we guide you to what is worth building.
You have an AI project, we join it
A roadmap, a stalled pilot or an agent that needs to reach production. Engineers join your team, read the code and data, and pick up the work.
You have a goal, we explore it with you
Workshops on your processes and data, the use cases worth building with a business case each, then a prototype on your own data before a full build is agreed.
Not sure which way in fits?
One free call about your goals and systems. We will tell you honestly whether to start exploring or put engineers on the work now.
Cleared for the most sensitive AI work
Our forward deployed AI engineers work under the strictest security and privacy rules, from US federal agencies to Fortune 500 companies and regulated healthcare.
Cleared for US federal agency work
Engineers cleared for the highest security and privacy levels, inside your access controls.
ISO 27001 & ISO 9001 certified
Certified information security and quality management, audited every year.
Fortune 500 enterprises
Used to formal security reviews, vendor audits and ongoing oversight.
Healthcare & regulated industries
Sensitive patient and customer data, strict regulators and the paper trail they expect.
In their own words
There is no challenge for which they can’t find a solution.
Will Aubuchon
Chief Executive Officer
Appreciate everyone's hard work and effort in moving us forward!
Alex Brynou
Director of Systems Architecture
Magebit developed a custom AI deal evaluator that helps us make better decisions.
Sagar Chandna
Partner & CTO
Learn more
I supervise every AI engagement we take
My Harvard credential in high-dimensional data analysis and machine learning taught me to trust data over demos. Every agent we ship is measured on real data, tested before it reaches a customer, and judged by the business result.
Reviewed by Arturs Kruze
Co-founder of Magebit, Forbes 30 Under 30
Frequently asked questions
If you can’t find the answer you’re looking for, feel free to reach out to us. We’re here to help!
A forward deployed AI engineer (FDE) is a senior engineer who works inside your business, learning your systems and data to build AI that runs in production. Palantir coined the role, and OpenAI and Anthropic now deploy their customers’ AI the same way.
Three ways: a dedicated engineer full-time inside your team, a team with 24/7 coverage, or a project team that takes one use case to production. You can start with one and switch as your AI work grows.
Yes. Our engineers work on four continents, so a forward deployed team can monitor and fix your agents at any hour.
Hire in-house when AI is your product and you can wait months to recruit. Forward deployed engineers fit when you need production AI now, and they hand what they build to your team.
A dedicated engineer is priced by role and seniority, a 24/7 team by its size and coverage, and a project by its scope. Tell us what you need and we will propose a team and a price.
Talk to our AI experts
- 1
We understand your goals
We look at what you want AI to do and the systems it needs to work with.
- 2
We propose the team
One dedicated engineer, a 24/7 team or a project, with the right mix of roles.
- 3
You meet your engineers
The people who will do the work, with a scope and a first use case.
Trusted by leading brands
