The instincts Palantir trained with a plane ticket — turned into something you can study. Not a generic bootcamp: a curriculum that compiles from a real job description, proves mastery with evals, and leaves you with a portfolio instead of a certificate.
Every Forward Deployed Engineer role decomposes into these. Each cluster ships both halves — the human knowledge you internalize and the agent tool you build as you learn (which becomes the portfolio artifact that proves it).
Ship real systems in Python and TypeScript — tests, types, CI, observability. The bar is production, not toy.
Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD across public cloud, VPC, and on-prem. The perimeter constraints that define FDE work.
RAG, vector DBs, evaluations, fine-tuning. Evaluation is the load-bearing skill — “how do we know it works at 5pm?”
Agent loops, tool-use, MCP, orchestration, guardrails — integrated deeply with enterprise infrastructure.
Discovery, reading the political terrain, finding the data reality, scoping the smallest end-to-end win. High agency.
(For lead roles.) Define standards, mentor, and codify evolving playbooks that scale the practice.
The course doesn’t guess what matters — it’s judged by one question: would someone who finishes this be ready to land this role? Drop a job description, get a target + a prep curriculum + the tools per competency.
The full JD-validated study plan: all six clusters with Learn / Tool / Prove for each, sequenced FDE-craft-first.
Prep curriculumA second target, with the eval cluster deepened into a full RAG-evaluation lesson + runnable harness.
Target JDsEach role distilled into competency clusters — the outcome the prep is reverse-engineered from.
You don’t “finish” the course — you pass its gate. Self-score each cluster against the JD; readiness is a number, and the proof is a deployed artifact plus a forkable agent tool.
A JD-anchored 0–3 instrument: score the six clusters, find the binding gap, get a packaging-move plan.
LessonThe deepest lesson: build an eval set from the customer’s own data, with a runnable harness behind it.
Flagship toolTurns a discovery Site Survey into a proposed agent architecture — exactly the JD’s “architect agentic solutions.”