# Forward Deployed Engineers

Source: https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/forward-deployed-engineers

Pillar: [AI & Agents](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai)

Engineers embedded in your team, working in your systems and shipping alongside your people.

An engineer, or a small pod, sits inside your team for the length of a problem, working in your codebase, against your data and inside your constraints. The person who hears the problem is the person who writes the code for it.

## How it works

They use your tools, your repositories and your stand-ups. The loop stays short: build the smallest useful thing, put it in front of the people who will use it, and let what happens next decide what we build after.

## Where it fits

This suits work where the requirement is not yet clear enough to write down: a first AI capability, an agent that has to drive a system nobody has automated before, or a proof of value that has to survive contact with real data. Where the shape of the answer is already known, a conventional project team costs less and we will tell you so.

## What you keep

The code, the documentation and the working knowledge stay with your team. We write everything for handover from the first commit, so your engineers can extend the work without us.

## Related services

- [AI Strategy & Assessment](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/ai-strategy): A grounded AI strategy, with one opportunity proved before you commit.
- [Agentic Frameworks & Orchestration](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/agent-framework): Agents that operate the systems you already run, orchestrated and safe to put in front of real work.
- [Retrieval & Knowledge (RAG)](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/rag-knowledge): Answer questions over your own documents and data, with citations.
- [AI Platform & Infrastructure](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/ai-infrastructure): The compute, frameworks, hosting and operations that keep AI running at a cost you can predict.
- [AI Governance, Risk & Security](https://www.elenjical.com/services/ai/ai-model-risk): Governance, guardrails and audit for the models and agents you put into production.

## Contact

To discuss Forward Deployed Engineers: info@elenjical.com · [Contact page](https://www.elenjical.com/contact)