I'm a 24-year-old with the 'hottest job in AI.' These are the skills you need to get a role like mine.

Kanav Bhatnagar has been an FDE for roughly one year. Courtesy of Kanav Bhatnagar Kanav Bhatnagar's job title, forward deployed engineer, has been described as the "hottest role in AI." He said his job is to be a customer-facing engineer who tailors products for clients. Context-switching and communication are important skills for FDEs, he said. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kanav Bhatnagar, 24, a forward-deployed engineer at Rippling, an HR tech company, who lives a...