Forward deployed engineers
The demo worked. Production killed it.
“This is a no brainer. Hireboard is best in class.” Tyrie · Founder · MyServiceApp LLC
It died between the proof of concept and real users. A forward deployed engineer works inside your team until it runs. One week free, then $4,000 a month, all-in, or walk away.
All-in means salary, benefits, compliance and AI tooling. No platform fee, no deposit.
Every client we have taken on is still with us.
Founders and venture funds run their engineering on Hireboard.
Still with us
Every client we have taken on
2 days
Time to hire at Vently, down from 3 weeks
10x
Runway at Loop DSP, per its co-founder
99% uptime
At MyServiceApp, as measured by the client
Hireboard cut our hiring time from 3 weeks to 2 days. The quality of developers exceeded our expectations.
Vently
Nicolas Khonaysser, CEO
This is a no brainer. Hireboard is best in class.
MyServiceApp LLC
Tyrie, Founder
Hireboard allowed us to 10x our runway while increasing team size. The cost savings were game-changing.
Loop DSP
Will Nichols, Co-Founder
Engineering delivered for
You already know the problem.
The AI pilot that never shipped
It impressed the room. Nobody uses it.
A tool nobody adopted
Bought, configured, ignored.
An integration nobody owns
It breaks where your systems meet.
A vendor gone after the demo
The hard part started when they left.
50%+
of generative AI projects were abandoned after proof of concept by the end of 2025.
Gartner, 2026
25%
of leaders surveyed have moved 40% or more of their AI pilots into production.
Deloitte, State of AI in the Enterprise 2026
350%
growth in forward deployed engineer postings on Paraform in one year.
Paraform, April 2026
Forward deployed: inside your team until it runs.
Inside your team
Your hours, your tools, your people.
Your real systems
Your data and your edge cases, not a sandbox.
It runs in production
Accountable for what real users touch.
- One week of engineering, free.
- Walk away anytime in week one.
- Day 8 you sign. $4,000 a month, all-in: salary, benefits, compliance and AI tooling.
- Free hot-swap, anytime.
- 50 engineer-weeks free this quarter.
Questions people ask first
A proof of concept runs on clean data with nobody depending on it. Production means your real systems, your real data and your edge cases, and usually nobody inside the business owns that gap. Closing it is the job of a forward deployed engineer.
A forward deployed engineer. They work inside your team, on your real systems and data, and stay until real users rely on it. Hireboard places one in your team: one week free, then $4,000 a month, all-in, or walk away.
A forward deployed engineer, or FDE, is a software engineer who works inside the customer’s team rather than the vendor’s: on your real systems and data, until the product runs in production for real users.
A forward deployed engineer takes something that works in a demo or a proof of concept and makes it work in your business: connecting it to your systems and data, handling the cases the demo skipped, and staying until real users rely on it.
Through Hireboard, a forward deployed engineer costs $4,000 a month, all-in: salary, benefits, compliance and AI tooling. The first week is free and nothing is invoiced before day 8.
The skills are the same; the seat is different. A software engineer usually builds one product for many customers from inside the product team. A forward deployed engineer builds inside one customer’s team, with the people who will use the result.
A solutions engineer usually works before the sale: demos, proofs of concept and technical questions. A forward deployed engineer works after it: writing and shipping the code in your repo, accountable for what runs in production.
With Hireboard it is the same person at the same price. Every engineer is AI Native: they direct AI agents and read every diff before it lands in your repo. Forward deployed describes where they work, which is inside your team.
You decide. Sign and the engineer stays at $4,000 a month, all-in, with a free hot-swap if they are not the right fit. Or walk away. Nothing is invoiced before day 8.
Repo access and one person who can answer questions.