Live cohortTechnologyOUTPOST
Forward Deployed Engineer
A 12-week live, project-led course for software engineers: scope customer needs, integrate products into real systems, and deploy AI features.
Cohort starts4 January 2027
Duration12 weeks · ~8 hrs a week
Curriculum6 modules · 19 lessons
LevelIntermediate
LanguageEnglish
Fee₹50,000
What you will be able to do
Run discovery calls and turn vague asks into scoped specs
Integrate products with SSO, APIs, CSV files, databases and webhooks
Deploy AI features with evals and fallback designs
Finish a capstone enterprise deployment with an eval report and handover document
Who it is for
- Working software engineers, or final-year students with shipped projects
- Comfortable with Python, basic SQL and Git
- Want a role mixing engineering and customer work, such as FDE or solutions engineer
- Can commit about 8 hours a week for 12 weeks
Curriculum
6 modules, 96 hours
- OUT-01The FDE Role & Customer DiscoveryFDE vs consulting and sales engineering · Discovery interviews and workflow mapping · One-page problem statement signed by both sides16 h
- OUT-02Data Wrangling in Someone Else's SystemsPython and SQL on undocumented data · Messy CSVs, duplicates and merged-cell Excel files · Cleaning pipeline and data-quality report16 h
- OUT-03Integrations: APIs, Auth & LegacyREST and SOAP clients · OAuth and SAML SSO · Webhooks, rate limits, retries and idempotency16 h
- OUT-04Deploying AI Features for CustomersLLM APIs and retrieval over customer documents · Tool-calling agents · Evals and fallbacks for wrong answers16 h
- OUT-05Production: Cloud, Security & OperationsDocker and cloud deployment · Secrets, access control, logging and monitoring · Data residency and security questionnaires · Runbook and incident drill16 h
- OUT-06Stakeholders, Handover & CapstoneScope changes and saying no · Status reports and field feedback · Capstone demo and handover to a customer panel16 h