Built near the problem, not far from it.
POSITION ON THE USES → BUILDS AXIS · 78% TOWARD BUILD
The AI Product Engineer — often 'forward-deployed' — sits between a real problem and a working AI system, building bespoke solutions close to the people who'll use them.
The defining trait is distance: as little as possible between the builder and the problem. Solutions are shaped by the actual constraint, not a tidy abstraction of it.
It is one of the fastest-growing titles at AI-first firms, precisely because proximity to the problem is hard to fake.
