Forward Deployed Engineering

Secure, production-ready AI, built inside your business by engineers who stay until it works.

Zero Day Group embeds senior software, cloud and AI engineers with your teams to turn AI pilots into dependable systems. Every engagement is designed with security first, delivered in agile sprints and backed by the same support our clients already rely on.

What we deliver

Most AI pilots stall between the demo and the real world

Getting AI into production takes engineers who can work inside your systems, your data and your security rules. That skill set has become one of the scarcest in technology.

~17,000

FDEs in the US, and only about 2,000 at the senior end

Up to $1.45M

Annual total pay for top-tier US FDEs

20–100+

FDE team sizes enterprises are now planning for

Source: Christian & Timbers study, reported in The Wall Street Journal, Nov. 3, 2026.

What we deliver

Most AI pilots stall between the demo and the real world

Getting AI into production takes engineers who can work inside your systems, your data and your security rules. That skill set has become one of the scarcest in technology.

AI agents & copilots

Agentic workflows and assistants that complete real tasks: triage, document handling, reporting and approvals.

Agile Development

Cloud & data foundations

Cloud-native pipelines, retrieval and knowledge layers on AWS, Azure or GCP, so AI runs on trusted data.
Digital Cloud

Security built in

Threat modeling, access controls, data protection and AI-specific risks like prompt injection, addressed from day one.
Cyber Security

Systems integration

AI connected to your ERP, CRM, ticketing and line-of-business systems, inside your workflows.

Evaluation & monitoring

Test sets, guardrails and live monitoring that keep accuracy, cost and behavior where they should be.

Support after go-live

Hypercare and ongoing support for the systems we build, and for your customers who use them.
Awesome Support
Our approach

Agile from the first sprint to long after launch

Sprint zero

Agentic workflows and assistants that complete real tasks: triage, document handling, reporting and approvals.

Build in sprints

Agentic workflows and assistants that complete real tasks: triage, document handling, reporting and approvals.

Secure & launch

Agentic workflows and assistants that complete real tasks: triage, document handling, reporting and approvals.

Support & improve

Agentic workflows and assistants that complete real tasks: triage, document handling, reporting and approvals.

Your team

The skills on every engagement

We shape each team around your use case, drawing on these roles.

Engagement Lead / AI Architect

Client-facing lead who owns discovery, solution design and stakeholder alignment.

Discovery workshops

Solution architecture

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Python

AI / Agent Engineer

Builds the agents, copilots and LLM workflows.

Python / TypeScript

OpenAI · Claude · Gemini

LangGraph / Agents SDK

MCP & tool calling

Prompt engineering

Cloud & Data Engineer

Builds the data and cloud foundations the AI depends on.

AWS / Azure / GCP

SQL · Spark · dbt

Snowflake / Databricks

RAG & vector databases

Terraform

Integration & Full-Stack Engineer

Connects AI to your systems and builds the screens people use.

REST / GraphQL

SAP · Salesforce · Dynamics

ServiceNow / SharePoint

React / Next.js

Node.js / FastAPI

AI Security Engineer

Keeps AI systems and the data behind them secure and compliant.

Threat modeling

OWASP Top 10 for LLMs

Prompt-injection defense

IAM & SSO

PII & data protection

LLMOps & Support Engineer

Runs, monitors and supports AI in production.

Evals & guardrails

LangSmith / Langfuse

Docker / Kubernetes

CI/CD

Incident response

Ways to engage

Remote, on-site or both, on terms that fit

Every option runs on the same process and starts in 2–5 weeks. Fully remote teams from our worldwide bench give you the best economics; hybrid teams put engineers on-site where it matters.

Proof to Production

Take one high-value use case from idea or stalled pilot to a secure, live system, with a fixed scope and clear success measures.

Managed FDE Team

A dedicated, managed team that works through your AI roadmap sprint by sprint, scaling up or down as priorities change.

Embedded Engineers

Individual forward-deployed engineers placed inside your own teams to add AI delivery capacity under your leadership.
Why Zero Day Group

Built on serving clients since 2007

Client-first since 2007

Serving clients is the core of who we are. If we don’t exceed your expectations, we know someone else will.

Security is our practice, not an add-on

Our Cyber Security team reviews every AI system we deploy, so you can move fast without opening new risks.

Proven with demanding clients

Our cloud, automation, security and support work has made an impact for Fortune 50 clients.

Up and running in 2–5 weeks

A pre-vetted worldwide bench means no long recruiting cycles before work starts.

US contract, global delivery

A US company with US-based accountability, delivering for clients and sites anywhere in the world.

Support that doesn't stop at launch

The same high-quality technical support our clients know us for, applied to the AI we build.

FAQ

Common questions

How is a forward-deployed engineer different from a consultant?
A consultant advises. Our FDEs write the production code, work inside your environment and stay accountable until the system delivers results.
Yes. Engineers work inside your cloud tenant and network, under NDA and your access controls, and our security team reviews every deployment.
Typically within 2–5 weeks of agreeing the scope, whether the team is fully remote or hybrid.
We stay on for hypercare and ongoing support, or hand over cleanly with documentation and training for your team.

You do. Everything is built in your repositories and environment.

Ready to put AI to work?

Contact us to take a deeper dive into how our forward-deployed engineers can get your AI into production, securely. Phone: (281) 697-7228 · Email: info@zerodaygroup.com

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