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FDE Career Program: Forward Deployed Engineer Course in Hyderabad
A 4-month forward deployed engineer course in Hyderabad for beginners and early-career engineers. 18 weeks, 180 live hours, four graded projects and a real 2-week deployment with a paying business unit as your customer.
18 weeks · ~180 live hours · ~200 lab hours
₹45,000 online · ₹55,000 classroom · EMI options available
Classroom near JNTU Metro, Kukatpally + live online
Who is this forward deployed engineer course in Hyderabad for?
The FDE Career Program is a forward deployed engineer course in Hyderabad built for people with some coding exposure and no AI background. In 18 weeks you learn Python, cloud, RAG, agents, MCP and the customer-facing craft that a forward deployed engineer (FDE) uses every day, then prove it in a live deployment.
It fits final-year students and fresh graduates, developers with 0 to 2 years who want to move into AI delivery, and support or QA engineers who already talk to customers but have never shipped an LLM system. You need basic programming in any language and comfort speaking with people. No prior AI, cloud or GenAI experience is required.
If you already code professionally with 2 to 7 years of experience, the shorter FDE Advanced Program is the better fit. Not sure which one? Book a free demo class and we will tell you honestly after a 10-minute conversation.
Key takeaways
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18 weeks: 16 teaching weeks plus a 2-week practicum and placement sprint, Monday to Friday, 2 live hours a day, plus a Friday Customer Engagement Lab.
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Four graded projects on one persistent fictional client, Deccan Finance, a mid-size NBFC, so every exercise builds on the last.
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A real 2-week forward deployment with a Brolly Group business unit or a Digital Brolly SME client as the customer, not a toy capstone.
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Fee ₹45,000 online or ₹55,000 classroom, EMI options available, batch size 25 to 30.
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Certificate: FDE Masters Certified Forward Deployed Engineer – Associate, plus placement assistance until you are placed.
What you will be able to do after the FDE Career Program
These are the outcomes we design the course around and grade you on. Salary numbers are realistic for a first FDE-track role out of this program, not the senior bands you see in headlines.
Ship a production RAG system on messy data
Ingest PDFs, spreadsheets and SQL exports from an enterprise, build permission-aware retrieval on Postgres and pgvector, and expose it through a FastAPI service with auth, logging and cost controls.
Build and gate agents with evals
Write tool-calling agents with LangGraph and the Claude Agent SDK, publish MCP servers, add human-in-the-loop checkpoints, and block any release that fails a golden-dataset eval in CI.
Deploy inside a customer's cloud
Containerise with Docker, deploy to AWS with Terraform and Kubernetes, wire GitHub Actions CI/CD, and set up observability with Langfuse so you can answer 'what did it cost and why did it fail'.
Run discovery and write the SOW
Lead a discovery call, structure findings MECE-style, write a scoping PRD and a statement of work, and send an executive status note a CFO will actually read.
Pass a security review before every deploy
Cover OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt injection, PII handling and DPDP Act 2023 obligations, and assemble an evidence pack that a client's security team will sign off, taught with SOC Masters faculty.
Target a ₹6 to 18 L first FDE-track role
Associate FDE, AI solutions engineer, GenAI engineer and IT-services FDE practice roles in Hyderabad and Bengaluru typically start in this band for freshers and 0 to 2 year engineers. See FDE salaries in India.
Week-by-week curriculum: 18 weeks from Linux to live deployment
Each week has 10 live hours, a lab assignment on Deccan Finance and a Friday Customer Engagement Lab. The full syllabus with tools and assessment rules is on the curriculum page.
Week 1
The FDE role, Linux, Git and Python I
What a forward deployed engineer does at Palantir, OpenAI and Anthropic. Shell, Git workflows, Python basics. First Deccan Finance discovery call.
Week 2
Python II: OOP, typing and pytest
Classes, type hints, dataclasses, error handling and test-driven habits. You write tests before features from here on.
Week 3
SQL, Postgres and messy enterprise data
Joins, window functions, indexing, pandas for cleaning. Work with the dirty loan-book exports Deccan Finance actually sends.
Week 4
APIs: REST, FastAPI, OAuth2 and JWT
Design and build authenticated REST services, document them, handle pagination, rate limits and errors like a vendor would.
Week 5
TypeScript, React, Next.js and Project 1
Enough front end to ship an internal ops dashboard. Project 1: a dashboard for the Deccan Finance collections team.
Week 6
AWS core and cost
IAM, EC2, S3, RDS and VPC. Read a bill, tag resources, set budgets. Deploy Project 1 to a private VPC.
Week 7
Docker and CI/CD with GitHub Actions
Containerise services, write multi-stage builds, run tests and security scans on every pull request.
Week 8
Kubernetes, Terraform, observability and Project 2
Infrastructure as code, Helm basics, logs, metrics and traces. Project 2: a reproducible deployment of your Week 4 to 7 stack.
Week 9
LLM fundamentals
Tokens, context windows, structured outputs, Claude and OpenAI APIs, prompt design, cost and latency budgeting.
Week 10
Production RAG
Chunking, pgvector, hybrid search, rerankers and permission-aware retrieval so users only see documents they are allowed to see.
Week 11
Evals and observability
Golden datasets, LLM-as-judge, RAGAS and promptfoo, CI gates and Langfuse tracing. Nothing reaches demo day without passing evals.
Week 12
Agents and MCP
Tool calling, LangGraph, Claude Agent SDK, human-in-the-loop, guardrails and building MCP servers for enterprise systems.
Week 13
Enterprise integration, identity and Project 3
SSO with OIDC and SAML, RBAC, ServiceNow and Salesforce via MCP, SQL Server and ERP, SQS and Kafka. Project 3: an agent inside Deccan Finance's stack.
Week 14
Discovery and scoping
MECE thinking, pyramid principle, writing a scoping PRD and a statement of work from a real discovery conversation.
Week 15
Security, compliance and governance
OWASP LLM Top 10, prompt injection, PII, DPDP Act 2023, SOC 2, GDPR and HIPAA. Build the evidence pack with SOC Masters faculty.
Week 16
Delivery, UAT, adoption and Project 4
User acceptance testing, change management, adoption metrics and the executive demo. Project 4: the full Deccan Finance solution.
Week 17
Live forward-deployment practicum
Two weeks embedded with a Brolly Group business unit or Digital Brolly SME client. Real users, real data, real deadlines.
Week 18
Demo day, case study, interviews and placement
Present to the employer council, publish your case study, run mock interviews and start the placement pipeline.
Projects, Customer Engagement Lab and the live practicum
Every project is scoped, built, secured, evaluated and demoed for the same client, Deccan Finance, a mid-size NBFC with the data problems real Indian enterprises have.
Project 1: Collections ops dashboard
A Next.js dashboard on a FastAPI and Postgres backend for Deccan Finance's collections team, deployed to AWS with proper IAM. Graded on correctness, tests and a 5-minute stakeholder demo.
Project 2: Reproducible infrastructure
Terraform and Kubernetes deployment of your stack with CI/CD and observability. Graded on whether a stranger can stand it up from the repo in under an hour.
Project 3: Enterprise agent with MCP
An agent that reads loan files through permission-aware RAG, raises tickets in a ServiceNow sandbox via MCP and respects SSO roles. Graded on eval pass rate and guardrails.
Project 4: Full solution and executive demo
Discovery, PRD, SOW, build, security sign-off, UAT and an executive demo in English and Telugu or Hindi. This becomes your portfolio case study.
Friday Customer Engagement Lab
Every week you run a discovery call, write a scoping note, draft an SOW section or deliver a status update, with feedback from trainers playing difficult stakeholders.
Weeks 17 to 18: Live forward deployment
You are embedded with a real Brolly Group business unit or a Digital Brolly SME client. You scope, ship and support something they use, then present it on demo day.
See a Customer Engagement Lab session before you decide
The free 60-minute demo class walks through one real Deccan Finance exercise and a live Q&A with the trainer. Bring your questions about fees, schedule and placements.
Fees, batches, certificate and placement support
Detail
FDE Career Program
Duration
4 months, 18 weeks (16 teaching + 2 practicum and placement)
Schedule
Monday to Friday, 2 live hours a day, plus Friday Customer Engagement Lab
Live and lab hours
~180 live hours, ~200 lab hours
Mode
Classroom in Hyderabad (near JNTU Metro, Kukatpally) or live online
Fee
₹45,000 online · ₹55,000 classroom · EMI options available
Batch size
25 to 30 learners
Next batch dates
[PLACEHOLDER: next classroom batch start date] · [PLACEHOLDER: next online batch start date]
Class timings
[PLACEHOLDER: weekday batch timings]
Certificate
FDE Masters Certified Forward Deployed Engineer – Associate (issued after passing all four projects and the practicum)
Placement support
Placement assistance until placed: resume and case-study review, mock interviews, employer council introductions. See placements.
Prerequisites
Basic programming in any language; no AI or cloud experience needed
FDE Career Program vs FDE Advanced Program: which should you choose?
Career Program
Advanced Program
Who it is for
Beginners and 0 to 2 year engineers; any coding exposure
Engineers with 2 to 7 years who already code (Python or TypeScript, SQL, Git, REST)
Entry
Short conversation at the demo class
60-minute assessment
Length
4 months, 18 weeks
2 months, 10 weeks
Schedule
Mon to Fri, 2 hrs/day + Friday lab
3 weekday evenings (2 hrs) + Saturday 4 hrs
Live hours
~180 live + ~200 lab
~100 live + ~120 lab
Projects
4 graded projects + 2-week practicum
3 projects + 2-week practicum
Fee
₹45,000 online · ₹55,000 classroom
₹30,000 online · ₹35,000 classroom
Certificate
Certified Forward Deployed Engineer – Associate
Certified Forward Deployed Engineer – Professional
Realistic first-role band
₹6 to 18 L
₹20 to 45 L targets
Frequently asked questions
What is the fee for the forward deployed engineer course in Hyderabad?
The FDE Career Program costs ₹45,000 for live online and ₹55,000 for classroom at our Hyderabad campus near JNTU Metro. EMI options are available. The fee covers 180 live hours, 200 lab hours, four graded projects, the 2-week live practicum, the Associate certificate and placement assistance until you are placed. There are no hidden exam or certificate charges.
Can a fresher join the FDE Career Program without AI experience?
Yes. The Career Program assumes basic programming in any language and no AI, cloud or GenAI background. Weeks 1 to 8 build Python, SQL, APIs, AWS, Docker and Kubernetes foundations before LLMs start in Week 9. Final-year students and fresh graduates are a core audience, and the after-BTech guide explains the typical path.
What salary can I expect after this FDE course?
We tell applicants to expect ₹6 to 18 L for a first FDE-track role such as associate FDE, AI solutions engineer or an IT-services FDE practice position. Glassdoor India puts the average forward deployed engineer salary at roughly ₹12.9 to 14.2 L; Levels.fyi reports a median of ₹17.7 L. Higher bands require experience, which is why the Advanced Program targets ₹20 to 45 L.
Is the Hyderabad classroom batch near Ameerpet?
Our campus is near JNTU Metro station in Kukatpally, about 15 to 20 minutes from Ameerpet on the Red Line. Learners from Ameerpet, Madhapur, Miyapur and Nizampet attend the classroom batch; everyone else can take the identical live online batch. Address, timings and a map are on the contact page.
What is the Deccan Finance project?
Deccan Finance is a fictional mid-size NBFC that acts as your client for all 18 weeks. Every lab and all four graded projects use its loan books, policies, ServiceNow tickets and stakeholders, so your dashboard, infrastructure, agent and final solution build on each other. By demo day you have one coherent enterprise case study instead of four unrelated toy apps.
Is placement guaranteed after the FDE Career Program?
No. We do not use guarantee language because no honest institute can control hiring decisions. What we commit to is placement assistance until you are placed: case-study and resume review, mock interviews, interview preparation and introductions through our employer council. We publish batch outcomes on the placements page, including [PLACEHOLDER: placed-alumni count] and median offers.
Can I take the FDE Career Program online from Bangalore or Chennai?
Yes. The live online batch follows the same 18-week curriculum, same trainer, same projects, same Customer Engagement Lab and the same live practicum, delivered over video with shared cloud labs. Sessions are recorded. Learners from Bangalore, Chennai, Pune and NRIs join regularly; details are on the online training page.
Ready to become a forward deployed engineer in Hyderabad?
Book a free demo class, sit through a real exercise, meet the trainer and leave with a clear answer on whether the Career Program or the Advanced Program is right for you.