Get a recruiter-grade read on your resume for Forward-Deployed Engineer roles:
Rubric built with FAANG+ & AI-lab hiring mentors
Scored against the nine companies hiring FDEs
Get your FDE Score in ~30 seconds.
Eight areas scored 1–10, re-weighted for every company. Palantir reads ownership, OpenAI reads AI hands-on.
FDE Readiness ReportNo vague advice. The evidence is the point.
Engineering Depth
8“Owned payments API serving 2M req/day at 99.98% uptime.”
Customer-Facing
6“Ran weekly syncs with 3 enterprise clients during rollout.”
AI / LLM Hands-On
3“No evidence on resume.” The single biggest thing between you and a frontier lab.
Ranked by weighted impact across the nine companies.
Customer-facing evidence
Right now a recruiter can’t picture you in front of a client.
Quantified impact
The work is real, but missing numbers makes it read more junior than it is.
Production LLM proof
The RAG bot is a start. Evals, reliability and a live deployment are missing.
Get personalised FDE Roadmap
Weeks 1–4 · Build
Ship one LLM deployment
Pick the retrieval workload closest to your current domain and take it to production with evals in place.
Weeks 5–8 · Deploy
Put a customer in the story
Rewrite two bullets so the deployment reads as a customer outcome with a number attached to it.
Weeks 9–12 · Signal
Make it findable
Publish the build write-up and align your LinkedIn headline to the FDE search terms recruiters actually use.
Every company weights the eight areas differently. We score your resume once, then re-weight it nine times, so each number reflects how that specific team actually reads you.
Each scored 1–10 from a real résumé line
Each team reads a different signal first
OpenAI
Weights AI / LLM hands-on
Anthropic
Weights Research rigor
Weights Systems at scale
Microsoft
Weights Enterprise delivery
AWS
Weights Customer-facing
Scale AI
Weights Data & evals
Cohere
Weights Applied LLMs
Databricks
Weights Data engineering
Palantir
Weights Ownership & 0→1
Every area score cites a real line from your resume. The evidence is the credibility engine.
A live, mentor-led webinar where you map out your own FDE roadmap around the exact gaps this report surfaces for you.
No spam. Just your webinar link and your report.
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