The Forward Deployed Engineer sits in the gap between a powerful AI model and a customer's messy reality — the person who turns an impressive demo into durable business value. This certification tests both halves of that rare role: the engineer who can build the full modern AI stack, and the consultant who can scope a problem, navigate an organization, and prove value.
Critical-thinking frameworks, decomposition, and problem scoping under ambiguity.
Prompt & context engineering, embeddings, RAG, and fine-tuning.
Agents, ReAct, multi-agent patterns, and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
Data pipelines, cloud/Docker/CI-CD, evaluation, observability & guardrails.
Discovery, PoV → PoC → MVP, ROI, demos, and handover.
Company-calibrated from public role descriptions, product materials, engineering documentation, and the operating realities of production AI deployments.
Palantir • OpenAI • Anthropic • Databricks • Scale AI • Sierra • Cohere • Mistral • Glean • Harvey • Decagon • Cresta
Research-informed. Not company-authored, endorsed, leaked, or guaranteed to match any current interview process.
Engineers targeting forward-deployed, AI, or solutions roles.
AI, ML, data & software engineers moving into client-facing delivery.
Anyone delivering enterprise AI who must prove value to a business.
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The Forward Deployed Engineer exam is 180 questions in 120 minutes, camera-proctored, covering the GenAI stack, RAG, AI agents, and MCP. The certificate is issued after proctor review and approval.
₹10,000 per attempt. The FDE certificate is valid for 365 days — the longest validity of any AIQ Score credential.
Every FDE certificate carries a unique code verifiable instantly and free at aiqscore.org/verify — no account needed.
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