Free info class · Saturday, August 1, 2026 · 12:00–1:00 PM Pacific
One hour on where the AI job market is actually going — and a live demo of the course that trains you for it. No cost, no obligation: come see the content, meet the instructor, and decide whether the September course is for you.
The hour
The fastest-growing, best-compensated new engineering role — the Forward Deployed Engineer — is now hired in volume by Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. What the role actually is, why it pays, and why the underlying skill is bigger than the job title.
Not slides about the course — a demo of real course content: how an AI-native builder walks into an ambiguous situation, scopes the real problem, and ships a working fix with agentic tools.
Whether the September course fits your background, what the capstone looks like, what it costs, and what you leave with. Ask directly.
The course this hour previews
A regular CSTU graduate course — CSE 6XX, Forward-Deployed Builder: Agentic AI in Practice — starting September 5, 2026. Most AI courses teach tool literacy. This one teaches the ability to walk into an organization's actual mess, find the problem nobody assigned you, and ship a working solution against its mission.
Course facts
The arc, in one paragraph
Stand up your local AI build environment and author your first Skill (weeks 1–2), practice deep listening and design thinking on a real stakeholder problem (weeks 2–3), architect and ship a working slice to a live public URL (weeks 3–4), pressure-test it at a midterm demo and package it for reuse (week 5), run it like a team with Agile, Jira, and a self-built Slack Skill (week 6), and present the finished capstone as a briefing to leadership (week 7). Built with Claude Code, Gemini, NotebookLM, OpenAI Codex, Google Antigravity, OpenCode, OpenClaw, and Hermes — using CSTU's own multi-cloud platform transformation as the live worked example.
Three exits, one skill
A portfolio and case study positioned for an FDE-style role — the discipline Palantir, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google now hire for in volume.
The same embed-listen-ship discipline is the training ground Palantir's alumni used to found companies at several times the ordinary rate.
Bring the discipline into the organization you already work for — especially as a Project, Program, or Product Manager who can now ship prototypes directly.
Saturday, August 1 · 12:00–1:00 PM Pacific · Free
The info class is a working demo of real course material — the same discipline, compressed into an hour. If it's not for you, you lost a lunch break.
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