How Forward Deployed Engineering is done at Factory — Eno Reyes
Top AI companies are building massive forward deployed engineering teams to embed with enterprise customers.
“The most important companies on the planet are building out massive FTE teams. So, think OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, you get the idea.”
Factory co-founder and CTO Eno Reyes presented on the evolution of forward deployed engineering (FDE), noting that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind are all scaling FDE teams. The talk positions FDE as shifting beyond the original Palantir embed-and-customize model toward something more suited to AI-native software delivery. Factory itself builds autonomous software engineering agents for enterprise teams, making this both an industry trend observation and a product positioning play.