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What Is a Forward Deployed Engineer? The AI industry's most-hyped new title

Palantir built the role. AI companies revived it. Here's what a forward deployed engineer actually does all week, who it suits, and how to tell a real FDE job from a support role wearing a better title.

8 min readJuly 28, 2026
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What Is an AI Product Manager? The part that isn't just PM

Most of the job is product management. The part that isn't will decide whether you get the offer - because you can't write a spec for behavior nobody can predict. Here's what actually changes, and what these loops screen for.

5 min readJuly 27, 2026
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The New AI Job Titles, Decoded

AI engineer, forward deployed engineer, evals engineer, context engineer, agent engineer. A field guide to what each title actually means, which ones describe real jobs, and which are old work in new packaging.

6 min readJuly 22, 2026
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AI Engineer vs. ML Engineer: the distinction that decides where you apply

The two titles get used interchangeably in job postings and they are not the same job. Here's how to tell which one a posting actually describes, and which one your experience is a fit for.

5 min readJuly 15, 2026
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How to Get an AI Engineering Job Without Faking AI Experience

The new AI roles are hiring people whose résumés never said 'AI'. Here's what hiring managers actually screen for, how to reframe experience you already have, and why padding fails faster in these loops than anywhere else.

6 min readJuly 8, 2026
Job Search Strategy

The 24-Hour Advantage: why the first day of a posting decides who gets seen

The candidates who get the call aren't always the most qualified - they're the ones recruiters saw first. Here's the mechanism behind that, and how to get in the first wave without burning out.

6 min readJune 12, 2026