Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) course for freshers.
Start with curiosity. Learn to ship.

FDE course syllabus at a glance

The course runs for about 30 weeks and is built as seven phases. Each phase ends with something you have to ship, and a mentor reviews it with you one to one before you move on. The hours below are total learning hours for the phase: live classes plus the practice and project work around them.

People sometimes ask why the AI part starts only in week 17. It is deliberate. Most of what goes wrong when a company tries to use AI is ordinary engineering: data that does not join, an API that times out, a deployment nobody can repeat. If you can do those things well, the AI layer is the easier half. If you cannot, an impressive demo stays a demo.

What a normal week looks like

Two live classes of about three hours each, on Saturday and Sunday. You can sit in our classroom at A-3, Sector-4, Noida, or join the same class live online; every session is recorded as well. A batch is 15 to 20 people, which is small enough that everyone's code gets looked at. Between classes there is an assignment most weeks, and the phase project builds up over the weeks of that phase.

If you are in college or working a weekday job, this is the main thing to check: can you keep your weekends and about four or five extra hours on weekdays for six to seven months? The people who struggle in this course are rarely the ones who started with no coding. They are the ones whose weeks filled up.

Fees, EMI and how people actually pay

We share the full fee on a free counselling call instead of printing it, mainly because the payment plan depends on the batch you join and whether you pay in one go. What we can say here:

• The fee is inclusive of GST. The number you are quoted is the number you pay.
• EMI starts from ₹8,000 a month, and most major bank credit cards offer EMI for up to 24 months.
• Paying the full amount at once gets 5% off.
• A booking amount of 10% reserves your seat. The refund rules, with your own numbers worked out, are in the enrolment confirmation you receive before you pay the rest.

If you are comparing us with other FDE courses, we have put every published fee in India in one table, converted to GST-inclusive, in FDE course fees in India. It includes the programmes that are cheaper than ours.

The job guarantee, in plain words

If you complete the course and do your part, we guarantee a qualifying job offer of at least ₹6,00,000 a year fixed CTC within six months of your certification. If that does not happen, we refund 50% of the fee you paid.

Doing your part means: at least 70% in every graded assessment, at least 80% attendance in live classes, at least four logged job applications every week during the placement window, attending every interview we arrange, and having your fees settled. A qualifying job is a full-time role in software engineering, AI, data, solutions engineering or forward-deployed work. The full clause, including how to claim, is in our published terms, and every learner gets a signed copy.

Two things worth knowing. Most FDE courses in India do not offer a guarantee at all; IIT Delhi's programme, for example, says explicitly that no placement is implied. And ₹6 lakh is a floor, not a forecast. Freshers with a strong portfolio aim for more, but we only promise what we can stand behind.

What the FDE job market in India looks like right now

We track Forward Deployed Engineer and closely related openings in India every few hours for our FDE jobs board. On 16 October 2026 it listed 139 open roles at 83 companies. Bengaluru had 45 of them, Mumbai 26, Hyderabad 20, Gurugram 12, Delhi 9 and Noida 3.

The honest part: only 6 of those 139 were labelled entry level. Most FDE openings want two or more years of experience. So a fresher's realistic first step is usually an associate FDE, solutions engineer, implementation engineer or AI engineer role, with FDE titles following a year or two later. This course is built for that path. The skills the postings ask for most were client-facing work (66 postings), AI agents (57), AWS (39), Python (38), APIs (37) and RAG (31). All of them are in the syllabus above.

Who teaches it

Pankit Kumar is the Lead Instructor. He is a Senior Data Scientist at Parexel with about ten years in data science and AI, and has taught at BIA, AnalytixLabs and Scaler. Ishaan Sharma, a Senior Data Scientist at Nuvo AI (Meril Group) and a Microsoft Azure ML Scholar, leads the AI and GenAI sessions. Both still do this work for a living, which is why the course spends so much time on the unglamorous parts.

Who should not join

• You already build and deploy services at work. You will find Phases 1 to 3 slow; look at FDE for Professionals instead.
• You cannot keep your weekends for six to seven months.
• You want certificates more than skills. Hiring for these roles is done on what you can show and explain, not on the name on a certificate.
• Your budget is a few thousand rupees. Start with our free FDE learning plan and come back if you get stuck.

When the next batch starts

The current weekend batch started on 26 September 2026. People who join in the first few weeks catch up from the recordings with a mentor's help. The counselling call will tell you whether joining now or waiting for the next intake makes more sense for you.

Not ready to talk to anyone yet? Read our complete Forward Deployed Engineer guide first, check what FDEs earn in India, or try the free skill check to see where your starting point is.