"Many customers need expert AI engineers working directly with their teams to help them build and become AI-native organisations."
Francessca Vasquez, VP of Frontier AI Engineering at AWS
That's not a quote from a training provider. It's from Francessca Vasquez, VP of Frontier AI Engineering at AWS, announcing a $1 billion investment in a new Forward Deployed Engineering organisation.
The aim is simple: embed expert AI engineers directly with customer teams to help them move from AI ambition to working systems.
AWS is not alone. OpenAI has launched its own Deployment Company to embed Forward Deployed Engineers into organisations working on complex problems. Anthropic is also hiring for forward deployed engineering roles in its Applied AI team.
The signal is clear. Organisations have the tools. They need people who can make them work. That means engineers who can build production-ready systems, work with messy real-world requirements, understand AI, and translate technical progress into business value.
At Makers, this feels familiar.
The forward-deployed engineer is now the most in-demand skill set in the AI economy. Engineering, AI, curiosity, people skills. Makers has been building these skills for 15 years, working with the leaders - from Deloitte to Google. But we do more than that. We source and develop Fearless Learners.
At Makers, our engineers don't tell you they can learn, they show you.
We hire career switchers. People willing to step out of careers in teaching, finance, music, hospitality, and re-skill completely to become engineers through a 13 week bootcamp. They are fearless learners by definition'.
Our engineers are often promoted twice as fast as graduates. Three quarters are at the same company years later.
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