Forward Deployed Engineer" role?

For context, I have 8+ YOE as SWE and previously started a company. EDIT: I am not talking about working at Palantir. just mentioning that the term came from there. I'm mostly talking about AI compani

For context, I have 8+ YOE as SWE and previously started a company. EDIT: I am not talking about working at Palantir. just mentioning that the term came from there. I'm mostly talking about AI companies (OpenAi, Anthropic, Cursor, Elevenlabs, etc)! I've been getting reached out to by many of the hot AI labs for the Forward Deployed Engineer role. I know it's from Palantir, but still unclear how 'technical' these roles are. On one hand they're exciting opportunities (esp to join these AI labs), but I'm not so sure about the FDE role itself. Online research says it's a mix of customer relationship and technical work (architecture design, integration, small prototypes, etc.). I'm personally fine with customer facing roles but definitely don't want to stray further from the traditional SWE path. What do you guys make of this? Would this be a "distraction" if my goal is to stay technical (Staff+ or Eng Mgr)? Has anyone had FDE roles and transitioned back to software engineering?