Atlassian expands AI Forward Deployed Engineering to 46 engineers, targeting nearly 100 by Q3 after deploying 80+ production agents

What changed

Atlassian published new details on October 7 about the expansion of its AI Forward Deployed Engineering program. It says the team has 46 engineers today and is moving toward nearly 100 by the third quarter across the US, EMEA and India, after working with more than 100 enterprise customers and putting over 80 AI agents into production. FDEs embed with customer teams, start from a business outcome, connect the necessary systems and permissions, build production agents and feed field lessons back into Atlassian product teams. Atlassian explicitly notes that the FDE role itself is not new; this entry records the program's scale-up and deployment model rather than claiming the job category was invented on October 7.