Forward Deployed Engineer at Infosys

Infosys plans to hire 6,000 forward deployed engineers over the next few years, according to Deccan Herald. Together with TCS, that makes Indian IT services one of the biggest sources of FDE jobs in the country.

What an Infosys FDE does

Infosys FDEs embed with client teams to move AI and digital projects from pilot to deployment. CEO Salil Parekh pointed to Topaz Fabric, the Infosys platform that lets clients use AI while keeping their data under their own control.

Infosys’s Bengaluru Senior FDE listing (now closed) adds the day-to-day detail:

• Client discovery. Work with global client engineering teams on their goals; lead workshops, discovery sessions and technical discussions.
• Delivery coordination. Manage scope, timelines and risks across distributed teams.
• AI-assisted engineering. Use AI tools, LLMs and agentic coding systems to improve engineering workflows.
• Integration. APIs, data pipelines, cloud services and toolchains.
• Mentoring. Coach client and Infosys teams on modern, AI-enabled engineering.

Compared with a startup FDE, the Infosys role leans more towards leading client engagements and modernising how teams build, and less towards owning a single product’s deployments.

Skills and experience asked

The experience tag on that listing is confusing: the title says “Senior” while Foundit tags it 0–1 years and fresher. Go by the description. Leading client engagements and distributed delivery points to experienced engineers. A second Infosys listing, for agentic AI programmes in Bengaluru, did not show details publicly.

Pay

Infosys has not published FDE pay. For a reference point, Taggd puts FDE pay at IT services and consulting firms in India at about ₹20–50 LPA, lower than GCCs and product companies. Check your own band in the FDE Salary Estimator.

How to prepare

1. Show a modernisation story. Infosys wants FDEs who improve how client teams build. One example of bringing AI coding tools or automation into a team, with a measured result, is strong evidence.
2. Practise running discovery. Prepare to lead a 30-minute workshop: clarify the client’s goal, map their current systems and agree a first deliverable.
3. Ship an integration-heavy AI project. An LLM feature that pulls from an enterprise system through APIs, with access control and logging, maps directly to the listing.
4. Know Topaz at a high level. Read Infosys’s public material on Topaz and Topaz Fabric so you can speak its language in interviews.
5. Internal candidates: flag your interest in FDE roles with your delivery manager, and build a portfolio of client wins where you owned the technical outcome.

Compare with TCS’s FDE plan, and see how much experience FDE roles need.