As Forward Deployed AI Engineer job postings surge over 800% since 2025, Trendwise Analytics — an enterprise AI training firm based in Bengaluru — is seeing unprecedented demand for its practitioner-led FDE training program from IT services firms, Global Capability Centres, and BFSI technology teams across India.

Infosys, Cognizant, Accenture, NTT Data and other IT services majors are actively building FDE teams at scale. Yet despite the hiring surge, the pipeline of trained FDE-capable engineers remains critically thin — creating a significant capability gap that generic AI training programs are not designed to address.

WHY THE FDE ROLE IS DIFFERENT

The Forward Deployed AI Engineer is not a data scientist, a prompt engineer, or a project manager. It is the engineer who owns the full AI delivery lifecycle — from initial client discovery through architecture, build, deployment, and adoption — independently, on a single engagement.

MIT's State of AI in Business 2025 found that 95% of enterprise AI initiatives stall before reaching production. The FDE model directly addresses this failure pattern by eliminating the handoff between building and deploying AI systems that causes most enterprise AI initiatives to stall.

BUILT FROM TRAINING 20+ ENTERPRISE TEAMS

Trendwise Analytics' Forward Deployed AI Engineer program is a 3-day intensive workshop - customizable as needed.

The program covers:
- AI use case discovery and stakeholder facilitation
- RAG architecture and Claude Code for enterprise deployment
- Multi-agent system design with governance and audit trails
- Production monitoring and observability
- 90-day adoption planning — the phase most AI deployments skip

PRACTITIONER-LED, NOT SLIDE-LED

The program is led by Mohan Silaparasetty, founder of Trendwise Analytics — former General Manager at IBM, former Vice President at SAP Labs, IIT Kharagpur alumnus, and Claude Code Certified by Anthropic.

"The FDE role is growing at 800% because enterprises have finally understood that building great AI systems is the easy part," said Silaparasetty. "Deploying them in complex enterprise environments, navigating governance and security requirements, and driving adoption in organisations that weren't asking for change — that's the hard part. That's what we train for."

AVAILABILITY

The Forward Deployed AI Engineer program is available for enterprise teams of 10 or more, delivered in-person in Bengaluru or virtually for distributed teams. Custom cohorts can be scheduled with 2–3 weeks lead time.

For program details: trendwiseanalytics.com/fde-training.html