I had a (non-Palantir) job with a description similar to an FDE a decade and a half ago and we were just called "field engineers". It was a job done mostly by people in their early to mid 20s. The business function was there long before AI.

Everything old is new again, basically.

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tootie 4 hours ago | parent [-]

"Professional services" was the other common term. Most big software companies had them and/or subcontracted for them.

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skeeter2020 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Aren't "solutions engineers" the same thing? Typically smart, young people who want to get into core development, doing technical, client-facing work intended to maximize spend and stickiness? That's been a thing since forever.

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tootie 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah. I've also seen Customer Success.

	▲	suttontom an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Customer Success is not engineering, or anything close to it. It's not even really technical.