Hire Forward Deployed Engineers Who Ship the Code and Win the Customer

An engineer who works directly with your customers to get your product live in their world. They scope the problem, write the integrations and custom code, and get it running in production. Then they bring what they learned back to your product team, so the next deployment is easier. It's two jobs in one person: a strong engineer and someone a customer trusts.

Sales Engineers work before the deal and mostly build demos. Solutions Engineers bridge the sale and onboarding, and mostly configure. FDEs own the deployment after the deal and write production code every week. If the role ships code inside customer systems, you want an FDE. See the full comparison.

Yes. You can meet every candidate on your shortlist without committing to anything. If nobody clears your bar, you've lost nothing but an hour or two. And every hire is backed by our replacement guarantee.

No. We do the early vetting, which is the part that eats your team's time: sourcing, a technical screen and a customer role-play. Your team runs the final interviews, so you stay in control of who you hire. If you want us to go deeper, we can add a live build and customer reference checks.

Every candidate does a live role-play with a "customer" who has a messy problem and a skeptical boss. We score how they scope, how they listen, and how they push back without losing the room. You get the scorecard and a short clip, so you can see it for yourself instead of taking our word for it.

Your recruiters can find engineers. What's hard is judging whether someone can run a customer call, scope a messy problem and push back on a VP. We've done that job, so we test for it before anyone reaches your loop. Many teams use us for FDE roles and keep their own team on everything else.

We're not a tech recruiter with an FDE page. FDEs are all we do. A generalist can check that a candidate codes. We check that they can code in someone else's stack, in front of the customer, against a deadline.

No. If a candidate passes the code screen but struggles in the customer role-play, we tell you, even if it means we restart the search. We'd rather you hire one great FDE than two who need hand-holding in front of customers.

Your first vetted candidates arrive within 5 days of kickoff, and most searches close in 3–4 weeks. The biggest factor is how quickly your team can run final interviews. We keep the process moving and handle the scheduling around them.

Yes, and it's where we can help most. Your first FDE writes the playbook everyone after them follows, so getting it right matters. We'll help you define the role on the first call if you haven't yet.

All three. If your customers expect someone in the room, we focus the search near them and check that candidates are happy to travel. If your deployments run remotely, we look wherever the best people are.

Yes. Every FDE we place joins your team as your own employee. We're not a staffing agency or a contractor marketplace, and we don't sit between you and your hire.

If your hire leaves or isn't working out in the first 90 days, we find you a replacement. Nobody comes back to a recruiting partner that got it wrong, so we'd rather fix it fast.