Job postings for this tech role have grown more than 700% in the last year

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figcaption>Forward-deployed engineers might be one of the hottest new tech jobs.A job posting for a “Principal Forward Deployment Engineer” at QuantumBlack says candidates should have more than eight years of hands-on experience in software, platform, or infrastructure engineering, as well as a bachelor’s or master’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, machine learning, applied statistics, mathematics, engineering, or artificial intelligence.

“What we want to be able to do is find those people that actually have a propensity to either be this great McKinsey consultant, and or a great technologist, and then groom them to be both,” Alex Singla, a senior partner at McKinsey who co-leads its AI arm, QuantumBlack, previously told Business Insider.