About Founders Careers:
Founders Careers works with startups and technology companies to identify high-quality talent for high-impact roles.

As AI companies move from models and prototypes to real-world deployments, there is growing demand for engineers who can work across customers, product and engineering - understand the problem, build the solution and get it running in production.

Founders Careers is building a highly curated network of India-based engineers for FDE / Applied AI prospects with high-growth startups and technology companies, including global teams.

We’re starting with a small group and will selectively speak with engineers whose experience strongly matches this kind of work.

By Forward Deployed Engineer - we mean

You should be comfortable getting close to the actual business problem, figuring out what needs to be built and owning the solution end-to-end.

That could involve:
Working directly with customers, founders or business teams
Understanding ambiguous or poorly defined problems
Translating business problems into technical solutions




Building and iterating prototypes quickly
Developing production-grade applications
Integrating APIs, databases and existing enterprise systems
Building with LLMs, agents and applied AI systems
Deploying, debugging and improving solutions in production
Making product and engineering decisions independently
You don't need to have "FDE" in your title

You may currently be working as a:

Forward Deployed Engineer / Applied AI Engineer / AI Engineer / Founding Engineer / Backend / Full-stack Engineer / Solutions Engineer / Customer Engineer / Implementation Engineer / Technical Consultant

What matters more than the title is the kind of problems you have solved.

What we're looking for

Robust candidates will typically have:
Solid software engineering fundamentals
Experience building and shipping real products or systems
Hands-on experience with LLMs, AI applications or agentic sys

📌 Forward Deployed Engineer Bengaluru (India)
🏢 Founders.Careers
📍 India