RSAI Certified Forward Deployed Engineer

What a forward deployed engineer does

The work sits between a customer’s problem and a system that has to run in their environment: scoping what is actually needed, integrating against systems you did not build, deploying under real constraints, and staying accountable for the result once it is in production. This programme assesses that work through a deployment capstone rather than through recall.

Mapped to O03 Applied AI Deployment Specialist — four modules, 12 lessons. The programme defaults to this course’s syllabus; it does not replace or renumber it.

Lessons

36 h

Capstone

8 h

Assessment

2 h

Total

48 h

1. 1. Client discovery

   • Discovery interviews
   • Problem and value definition
   • Data readiness

2. 2. Solution design

   • Architecture options
   • Delivery planning
   • Secure prototype

3. 3. Implementation

   • System integration
   • Evaluation and review
   • Production readiness

4. 4. Acceptance

   • User acceptance
   • Training and handover
   • Final defence

Before you start

Prerequisites: G02, O01. These are separate courses with their own hours, not part of this programme’s total.

Recommended: A02.

Proposed tracks

Two ways to take the programme, as proposed by the prototype. Neither is approved, neither is priced, and no track can be selected — this is a comparison of intent, not an offer.

How it would be assessed

The platform rule is 20% knowledge checks, 40% lesson evidence and 40% capstone, passing at 70% overall and 70% on the capstone, with every critical check passed. A high quiz mark cannot offset a failed critical check.

Professional status is proposed to stay current for 24 months and then renew. The record that you passed does not expire; the claim that you are currently certified does.

Programme updates