As OpenAI and Anthropic open their first Australian offices, their first employees will likely be specialist technical consultants who are tipped to shake up how the big professional services firms operate.
OpenAI and Anthropic have been hiring an army of consultants, known as forward-deployed engineers (FDE). These specialist software engineers are embedded within a company to help internal teams develop custom applications and agents. They focus on fine-tuning their specific models with proprietary data, so customers see a faster payoff from the rapidly evolving technology.
