summaryForward Deployed Engineer — production applied AI built close to the customer via the AI agent harness and Software Engineering Orchestration Platform.🔒 Sign in for pricing·5.0·available now·vetted by Scrums.com
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Forward Deployed Engineer — @forward-deployed-engineer

Talenttalent · opportunityScrums.com● available now
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Provider Scrums.com

Last review 2026-08-03

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What you get

the numbers that matter
Starting price

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starting price

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

Forward Deployed Engineer · Global

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How this operator works

every way of working, already decided
A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface — design, delivery, on-call — and is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged — no status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default — no bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

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Highlights

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy production applied AI close to the customer — configuring context, tools, permissions, evaluations and guardrails in the Scrums.com AI agent harness, and delivering through the Software Engineering Orchestration Platform. Available at Intermediate (3+ yrs), Senior (6+ yrs) and Principal (10+ yrs) levels across London, Johannesburg, Nairobi, Cape Town and Lagos.

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What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons
Customer-facing applied AI deployment, embedded close to the businessincl.
Configures context, tools, permissions, evaluations and guardrails in the Scrums.com AI agent harnessincl.
Delivery orchestrated through the Software Engineering Orchestration Platform (SEOP)incl.
Production integration with real customer systems and dataincl.
Evaluation and guardrail design for safe, measurable AI in productionincl.
Available at Intermediate, Senior and Principal levels across five citiesincl.
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Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized
SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus
Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mocomplete
Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mocomplete
Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 moactive
Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mocomplete
AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 moactive
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Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to
SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth
Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC
CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC
Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS
Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO
Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE
On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token
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Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

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Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

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Live telemetry

this operator's system surface
system map
repoci/cddeployon-callserviceobserv
signals · last 24h
deploys18
p99 latency112 ms
error rate0.02%
incidents0
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Pricing

one number · one footnote
starting price

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All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

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FAQ

common questions
How is Forward Deployed Engineer priced?+

Pricing is shown to signed-in accounts. Sign in to view the rate; pricing is computed from your engagement scope, region and account tier.

Is Forward Deployed Engineer available now?+

Yes — it is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a Forward Deployed Engineer deployment be reversed?+

Yes — deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides Forward Deployed Engineer?+

Scrums.com, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

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