Know if you're ready for
Forward Deployed Engineering.
Assess your FDE readiness, analyze any job description, and get a personalized plan built around your background and target role.
Stop guessing what an FDE job description really means.
Some roles own production. Some sell demos. Others implement or support. FDE Compass shows the evidence behind the label instead of handing you another black-box score.
From career ambiguity to the next concrete move.
Assess
Answer 24 engineering and scenario questions across six FDE dimensions.
Decode
Paste a JD to surface production ownership, customer depth, pre-sales signals, and travel.
Act
Generate a focused 4/8/12-week plan for your background and target role.
FDE readiness lives across six axes.
Strong FDEs do more than code. They integrate, judge, communicate, deploy, and drive adoption under real constraints.
Production engineering
Ship, debug, and operate systems real users depend on.
Systems & integration
Cross API, identity, data, cloud, and legacy boundaries.
AI & data fluency
Design evals and diagnose model, retrieval, and data failures.
Customer judgment
Translate business pain into trustworthy technical decisions.
Scoping ambiguity
Reduce uncertainty and test assumptions with incomplete information.
Deployment ownership
Stay accountable from discovery through stabilization and handoff.
See what the JD analyzer actually looks for.
Every conclusion points back to source language, exposes uncertainty, and gives you the questions to ask a recruiter.
Analyze a job descriptionOwn discovery, technical scoping, system design, build, and production rollout alongside customer teams.
Your starting point changes the route, not the ceiling.
Software engineers
Add customer judgment, scoping, and adoption evidence.
Data & ML engineers
Add end-to-end product, integration, and operations evidence.
Solutions & consultants
Add tested code, reliability, and long-term ownership.
Get clarity before you spend weeks preparing.
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