I'm a 24-year-old with the 'hottest job in AI.' These are the skills you need to get a role like mine.

Kanav Bhatnagar has been an FDE for roughly one year.

Courtesy of Kanav Bhatnagar

• Kanav Bhatnagar's job title, forward deployed engineer, has been described as the "hottest role in AI."
• He said his job is to be a customer-facing engineer who tailors products for clients.
• Context-switching and communication are important skills for FDEs, he said.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Kanav Bhatnagar, 24, a forward-deployed engineer at Rippling...