FDE Glossary

Short definitions for terms that recur in Forward Deployed Engineer listings.

Use this glossary for quick recognition and interview language. Use study topics for deeper notes, implementation details, and project practice.

Groups

• Field And Delivery Skills: customer-facing practices, scoping, implementation, rollout, support, and adoption.
• Applied System Concepts: implementation concepts that matter across products, stacks, and customer environments.
• AI And Data Architecture Terms: AI, retrieval, data, evaluation, and LLM application patterns.
• Technologies And Platforms: named languages, clouds, frameworks, vendors, protocols, and enterprise systems.

Classification Rule Of Thumb

If the term describes what an FDE does with people or customers, put it in field and delivery skills.

If it describes a reusable implementation idea, put it in applied system concepts.

If it describes AI, data, retrieval, model behavior, or LLM application architecture, put it in AI and data architecture terms.

If it names a concrete language, framework, cloud, tool, protocol, vendor, or business platform, put it in technologies and platforms.

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