Hire Forward Deployed Engineers with Terminal
Embed vetted AI Fluent engineers and turn your hardest problems and workflows into shipped solutions. Build for your whole company's challenges in engineering, sales, marketing, and customer success. Top talent in your time zone.
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Forward deployed engineers are hard to hire. We make it easy.
A forward deployed engineer (FDE) attacks your hardest problems and ships solutions, working beside the people closest to the work. Point them at stalled sales pipelines, processes slowing your support team, or a marketing data gap, and they turn ambiguity into working software. They do not wait for a spec. They build it through discovery.
A great forward deployed engineer clears the same technical bar as your engineers and communicates like a consultant. Terminal vets for both. Only the top 7% pass our screening, across technical depth and the stakeholder fluency forward deployed work demands.
What we vet for in a forward deployed engineer
Production-grade engineering
They pass the same coding bar as your core team. No drop in technical rigor for a customer-facing title.
Stakeholder fluency
Vetted for English fluency and communication skills to work directly with customers and internal teams, translating real-world challenges into shipped solutions.
Full stack breadth
Comfortable across front end, back end, and infrastructure, so they own the last mile end to end.
Rapid prototyping
Build proofs of concept on real data, turning a generic pitch or a vague request into a working demo.
Bias to ship
Compulsive builders who close the gap between what the business needs and what gets shipped.
Latest Technology
They track the latest models, agentic frameworks, and AI development patterns, so the solutions they ship reflect what works today.
Why teams hire forward deployed engineers with Terminal
Vetted for the full bar
Only the top 7% pass our screening, across both technical depth and stakeholder communication.
Built to ship in unfamiliar territory
AI Fluent engineers orchestrate agents, navigate unfamiliar codebases, and ship faster, exactly the work a forward deployed engineer does inside a stack and a problem they have never seen before.
Aligned to your time zone
Engineers in Latin America and Canada work in your business hours, the real-time collaboration forward deployed work depends on.
Flexible deployment
Deploy an engineer on contract for a high-value account or initiative, or hire full-time to own the relationship. Contracts include a 14-day risk-free guarantee.
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AI has changed engineering. We've changed hiring.
Software engineers are no longer coders. With AI, top-tier engineers are orchestrating agents to build, debug, test, and ship in parallel.
Terminal's hiring platform showcases not just coding skills but how and what our engineers build with AI.
Our AI fluency standard validates how candidates leverage AI in daily workflows.
Quickly identify candidates who have shipped AI products and features.
Unlock real AI delivery expertise. Supercharge results.
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Deploy forward deployed engineers your way
Contract Developers
Contract forward deployed engineers scale your projects with high flexibility and low risk. Get rapid response with on-demand engineers without long-term commitments.
Contract to Hire Developers
Contract-to-hire helps you evaluate forward deployed engineers without long-term commitment. It reduces risk and ensures a great fit for both you and the engineer.
Full-time Developers
Hire top forward deployed engineers as full-time employees and accelerate your vision. Full-time hires integrate deeply in your team, driving long-term value and building your culture.
How We Recruit Top Talent
Where do we find the best talent for your business?
Combing through candidates across nine international markets, we find and vet talent before you post your own role, and continuously source engineers 24/7.
Our global recruiting experts have deep knowledge of the local talent pool and networks. That means they can effectively target the right candidates for every role.
Plus, Terminal harnesses the power of referrals, since great engineers know great engineers.
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With Terminal, we have recruiting and on-the-ground expertise in the markets where we want to hire. We needed a group of people who were experts in the laws in these markets, who could set up payment structures, who would provide an office where engineers could work, and who could handle all the other details for us.
Andrew Backes
Head of Engineering at Armory