Embed with your SaaS team for last-mile AI: paid audit, 4-week sprint, dedicated month, or a fixed feature in Laravel, Node, and FastAPI. Independent contractor, not a lab FDE bench.
Hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer should mean an embed, not a chatbot wrapper. You get someone who sits with the workflow, prototypes against real data, integrates with Laravel or Node, and leaves production controls behind.
I offer named engagements: a paid AI deployment audit, a 4-week embed sprint, a dedicated FDE month, or a fixed last-mile feature. That is FDE as a service for teams that cannot staff Palantir-style benches or wait on lab hiring.
Based in Ahmedabad, I work remotely with India and global product teams. Cost, privacy, and human review are part of v1. IP and prompts stay yours.
Looking to hire a Forward Deployed Engineer or AI-first FDE? Start here for engagement options. Read the AI-first FDE profile first if you still need the role explained.
Buy a loop, not a vague hire-me. Audit, sprint, dedicated month, or a fixed last-mile feature.
Paid discovery: where the pilot is stuck, data and auth risks, v1 versus v2, and whether an embed is the right next step.
Understand, prototype, integrate, and deploy one last-mile workflow in your repo with a review surface and a cost ceiling.
Ongoing embed capacity after the sprint: next features, evals, and ownership beside your product team.
A scoped RAG, chatbot, agent, or sidecar with a clear done state when you do not need a full month of capacity.
Add AI beside the product API you already run. Billing and domain logic stay in place.
Stand a Python AI worker next to Laravel or Node when RAG, OCR, or agents fit the Python ecosystem.
Token budgets, PII boundaries, logging, and human approval where risk is high. Not a later phase.
Contractor embeds for teams that cannot wait six months or pay lab FDE total compensation.
Working code in your environment, not a requirements theater deck.
Talk to the people who do the work. Map data sources, risk, and where a human must stay in the loop.
Prototype against sample tickets, docs, or product APIs you already run. Time-boxed and disposable if it fails.
Decide Laravel or Node stays the product API, and whether FastAPI is the AI sidecar. Auth and tenancy stay yours.
Queues, logging, review UI, and a cost ceiling so the spike can survive a real release.
Demo to the team that will use it. If they will not use it, we stop instead of wrapping a chatbot around a missing process.
Continue into the 4-week embed, a fixed feature, or a dedicated month once the first milestone is honest.
Remote Forward Deployed Engineer India: overlapping hours, async updates, and code in your GitHub.
You are not hiring a 40-person Palantir-style org. You are hiring one senior engineer who ships last-mile AI into SaaS.
US lab FDE total compensation is often hundreds of thousands of dollars. This engagement is project, sprint, or dedicated month, scoped before work starts.
Product code and prompts remain yours under the agreement. We avoid sending unnecessary PII to models and document the data flow.
Use the contact form with category Forward Deployed Engineer. Mention audit, 4-week sprint, or dedicated month, plus your product and stack.
Want the category definition first? Read the AI-first FDE profile, then come back here to hire.
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