Deployment Inc
Forward Deployed Engineer
Why it's interesting
The purest bet yet that 'FDE' is a business model, not just a role: Cars24 spun out Deployment Inc — India's first dedicated forward-deployed AI firm — with $5M, an OpenAI Select Partner badge, and a plan to hire ~50 engineers (mostly FDEs) in a single month. Led by a Cars24 exec and an ex-xAI backend engineer, embedding pods inside India's largest enterprises. Founding-team leverage, in Gurugram, not SF.
The role
Build and ship AI systems inside enterprise customers' operations, from first diagnostic to production, measured against outcomes the customer chooses. Embedded pod model across financial services, consumer, healthcare, manufacturing, logistics and tech; Cars24 is the first customer and OpenAI the deployment partner. A parallel FDE Engineering Manager seat is open alongside. Founding team, in-office Gurugram.
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