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Learning Path

Forward Deployed Engineer: Frontier Lab Loop

The Forward Deployed Engineer path for loops with a coding round and a take-home build of 3 to 5 hours, with customer delivery and evaluation required.

For: Forward Deployed Engineer candidate. Mixed background, interview in two to eight weeks.

About 199 hours of required and recommended study · 38 required, 2 recommended, 4 optional, 6 later

A variant of the Forward Deployed Engineer path.

Ready When

  • Every required module completed: lessons read and confidence rated 3 or more.
  • Two full technical worksheets answered inside 45 minutes each.
  • Four timed mock interviews scored on the rubric, with no dimension below 3.
  • Eight to twelve stories in your story bank, each told aloud in under three minutes.
  • One take-home rehearsed against the clock: a 3 to 5 hour build against a written brief using model APIs, with tests and a recorded walkthrough of the design and its trade-offs.

When to Skip

As the Forward Deployed Engineer path.

Modules, Track by Track

Work through the tracks in this order. Each module shows its flag on this path and your status.

Required
Study this module; the path assumes it.
Recommended
Study it if you have time; it strengthens the core.
Optional
Fill a gap only if you need it.
Later
Part of this path once it is written; it has no lessons yet.
Skip
Not part of this path.

  1. T0Orientation

  2. T1Engineering Foundations for AI

  3. T2LLM and Retrieval Fundamentals

  4. T3Agentic Systems

  5. T4Production AI Systems

  6. T5AI Systems Design

  7. T6Forward Deployed Engineering

  8. T7Communication and Behavioural

  9. Interview Practice and Revision

  10. T8Capstone and Portfolio

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