"Forward Deployed Engineering" is a Palantir-coined buzzword that is nothing but military-branded marketing fluff. Maybe it sounds 'fancy', but it simply is the same old practice of "on-site" engineers that places engineers directly within a customer’s location / infrastructure.

There’s nothing revolutionary about it other than the little spin for a standard industry role to make the sorry plantir bros feel more appreciated while helping tech-fascists destroy democracies.