The deployment gap is a hiring problem.
Your demo lands. Production stalls. The difference isn't the model - it's engineers who make it work in front of a customer.
Your demo lands. Production stalls. The difference isn't the model - it's engineers who make it work in front of a customer.
CW Resourcing is a specialist AI recruitment agency placing Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Engineers and AI engineering talent into venture-backed companies from Seed to Series C in San Francisco, New York and London. Most search firms answer an AI mandate with volume - 200 CVs scraped on title match, light on signal, heavy on hope. The roles that actually close the deployment gap don't work that way. Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Engineers and founding engineers - the people who turn a promising model into revenue - are employed, in demand, and immune to spray-and-pray outreach. We're a specialist desk by design: a partner who reads the role properly, screens on production impact rather than keywords, and hands you a shortlist you'd genuinely hire from.
Customer-facing. Half engineer, half consultant, all ownership. They embed in the customer's environment, take the ambiguity, and ship until it works. Production impact - customer-facing - ownership.
Revenue-facing. The technical credibility that closes enterprise. Demo, scope, integrate, win - the bridge between your engineering and the buyer's trust. Pre-sales - integrations - enterprise.
Systems. LLM systems in production, not notebooks. RAG, evals, agentic workflows, inference - the plumbing that keeps it reliable at scale. LLM / RAG - evals - inference.
Founding. The first ten hires who set the bar everyone after them is measured against. Startup intensity, range, and no need for a spec to start. 0 to 1 - high autonomy - sets the bar.
We find the real hiring need behind the JD - the failure mode you're solving for, the bar, and the must-haves versus the noise. Get this wrong and every CV after it is wasted.
Screened on what matters: production impact, ownership of ambiguous problems, customer-facing range, real AI exposure. Not keyword bingo.
A tight shortlist you'd actually hire from, each candidate with the reasoning attached. You move fast - because the good ones don't stay on the market.
growth in FDE job postings
the funding stages I partner across
core markets: SF · NYC · London
a pressure-tested shortlist, not 200 lookalikes
What founders ask before the first call.
CW Resourcing is a specialist AI recruitment agency. We place Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Engineers, AI and infrastructure engineers and founding engineers into venture-backed AI companies from Seed to Series C, across San Francisco, New York and London. We work a deliberately narrow desk so every shortlist is high-signal, not high-volume.
A Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) is a customer-facing engineer who deploys a company's product inside the customer's own environment. Part engineer, part consultant, they own ambiguous integration problems end to end and turn a working demo into a working production deployment. The role originated at Palantir and is now central to applied-AI companies.
We recruit across three markets: San Francisco, New York and London. These are the deepest talent pools for Forward Deployed Engineers, Solutions Engineers and applied-AI talent. We are UK-based and work remotely with founders and hiring leaders across all three time zones.
We partner with venture-backed AI companies from Seed through Series C. That is the stage where a single customer-facing hire can decide whether the product ships or stalls, and where getting the first ten engineers right sets the bar for everyone hired after them.
We send a selection of pressure-tested candidates, not 200 lookalikes. Every candidate is screened on production impact, ownership of ambiguous problems, customer-facing range and real AI exposure, not keyword matches. You get a short, reasoned shortlist you can act on quickly, because the strongest candidates do not stay on the market.
Book an intro call. On one call we cover who is actually available for your role, what they cost and how fast you can realistically hire. No deck and no obligation, just a direct read on the market for the talent you need.
One call. We'll tell you who's actually out there, what they cost, and how fast you can realistically land them. No deck, no fluff.
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