Forward Deployed Engineer

A Forward Deployed Engineer thinks in customer workflows, not tickets or isolated features. Certification work cannot be understood from a desk. How a notified body actually runs a technical review lives in people's heads, in inherited spreadsheets, and in documents almost nobody outside the industry has read. Going and finding that out is the job, not the preparation for it.

You sit inside the operation, learn how the work genuinely gets done, and translate it into systems that hold up in the field. You run the call, write the spec, build the frontend, the backend and the model layer, and ship it. Then you watch someone use it and find out what you got wrong. You'll ship to production in your first week.