הסוד המלוכלך של הנדסת Forward Deployed

תקציר מקורי באנגליתAt Palantir, forward deployed started as a literal description: you were deployed, physically, at the customer's site, and the onboarding project was keeping the platform from falling over. Natalie Meurer's dirty secret is that the title never settled after that. It stretched across DevOps, data integration, ontology work in Slate and then Foundry, and solution architecture, until forward deployed engineering meant so many different jobs that the label stopped meaning much. Every company hiring for it, whether they call it forward deployed, customer, or deployed engineering, is describing a slightly different role of a particular vintage. Her argument is that the through line was never the code. As coding agents make writing software cheap, the durable part of the job is the rest of it: in