ServiceNow Forward Deployed AI Engineer
A career-focused, hands-on program: master customer-embedded AI delivery on the ServiceNow AI Platform — scope the mission, build Now Assist skills and AI agents in AI Agent Studio, connect them through AI Agent Fabric, MCP and Workflow Data Fabric, and ship to production with AI Control Tower governance, evaluation evidence and rollback plans.
What does a ServiceNow Forward Deployed AI Engineer do?
They embed with the customer and own the AI build end to end: scope the mission with sponsors, design against ServiceNow best practice, build Now Assist skills and AI agents in AI Agent Studio, connect them to the customer's data and third-party agents through Workflow Data Fabric, AI Agent Fabric and MCP, and launch to production under AI Control Tower with evaluation evidence and rollback plans. Most AI courses stop at demos. This program ends only when you can ship an AI solution a customer runs in production — and prove it is safe, governed and paying back.
- •Sponsor, stakeholder & process discovery
- •AI use-case scoring & Assist-unit economics
- •As-is / to-be process maps & data readiness
- •Guardrails, success metrics & acceptance criteria
- •Now Assist skills & prompt design
- •AI agents, tools & orchestration in AI Agent Studio
- •Workflow Data Fabric, IntegrationHub & MCP
- •AI Agent Fabric & third-party agent interoperability
- •Evaluation sets, red-teaming & Now Assist Guardian
- •AI Control Tower registration & policies
- •Update sets, pipelines, rollback & go-live
- •Adoption, value dashboards & 90-day review
The platform went agentic. Someone has to ship it in production.
What this means for your career: every AI rollout now needs someone who can select the use case, build the agent, wire the data and interoperability, and prove it safe under AI Control Tower — forward deployed AI engineers who speak Now Assist, AI Agent Studio, Agent Fabric and MCP fluently command a premium over process-only and admin-only profiles.
Built for people moving into customer-embedded AI delivery.
Prior experience: basic programming or ServiceNow admin experience helps. The program builds platform, scripting and ITSM foundations before AI Agent Studio, Agent Fabric and production delivery.
Build the agent — and ship it in the customer's production.
Twelve sections. 48 modules. Platform → Now Assist → AI Agents → Fabric & MCP → Production.
ServiceNow AI Platform & the 2026 Stack
Platform Administration Essentials
Scripting & Flow Designer
ITSM Process Foundations
Now Assist & Generative AI Skills
AI Agent Studio & Orchestration
Data, Integrations & Workflow Data Fabric
AI Agent Fabric, MCP & Interoperability
Evaluation, Testing & Observability
AI Control Tower & Governance
Forward Deployed Delivery — Vision-Lock to Production
Capstone, Certifications & Career
The FDE toolkit, one real engagement.
You don't watch videos. You run engagements.
Three full-production projects, each threaded through the entire curriculum. By the project, you've built the whole stack around them.
ITSM implementation blueprint
Run a full Now Create engagement on a live scenario — discovery workshops, as-is/to-be BPMN maps, OOB-first design decisions, prioritized story backlog and a findings deck you present and defend.
AI use-case portfolio & Now Assist rollout
Assess AI readiness, score and prioritize candidate use cases with Assist-unit economics, and specify a Now Assist rollout — guardrails, acceptance tests and value metrics — as a governed product decision.
Backlog to go-live as Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Own a release end to end — prioritized backlog with WSJF, sprint and UAT plan, acceptance evidence against criteria, go-live communications and a value dashboard for the 90-day review.
Your implementation engagement in a controlled project environment.
Pick a real partner workflow. Run the engagement end to end — workshops, to-be design, backlog, UAT and a governed Now Assist rollout plan — and defend it before a review panel.
Taught by engineers who shipped agentic AI to production.
Manikanta is the founder of Edify Nuva and brings 15 years of enterprise platform architecture from AT&T, Salesforce, Cox Communications, and Broadcom — where he led ITSM, ITOM, HRSD, and CSM rollouts for Fortune-500 banks, telcos, and insurers. Most recently he architected production Now Assist + AI Agent Studio deployments that replaced traditional triage tiers with autonomous case-handling.
His classes get you two things other programs don't give you: a founding architect who's shipped enterprise ServiceNow + AI from inside the Fortune 500, and a curriculum rewritten every release (currently Zurich) — so when hiring managers ask about CMDB Workspaces, AI Agent Studio sub-flows, or ITOM Visibility, you've already built it. M.S. in Engineering, Purdue University.
Ravi is Chief Technologist at Edify Nuva, where he leads the implementation and delivery practice. After years running enterprise ServiceNow programs, he now teaches the consultant's craft — Now Create engagements run phase by phase, process workshops that get to real decisions, and UAT that stands up in front of a steering committee.
His delivery modules are built from real engagement post-mortems, not slide decks. Expect to leave with working workshop kits, requirement and UAT templates, and a delivery-governance playbook you can run on day one.
What ServiceNow employers say about Edify Nuva grads.
Real feedback from talent leaders at ServiceNow Elite Partners and the firms hiring our ServiceNow + AI Agents graduates.
An Agent‑Ready credential, not a participation trophy.
READY
2026
Roles this program prepares you for.
What employers should see in your portfolio: that you can take an AI mission from vision-lock to production — score the use case, build Now Assist skills and agents, ground them in the customer's data, connect them through Agent Fabric and MCP, evaluate and red-team them, register them in AI Control Tower, and prove value at the 90-day review.
Your first ServiceNow offer isn't a lottery ticket. It's a built process.
A portfolio, not a graveyard.
Guidance on assembling a consulting portfolio — process maps, workshop artifacts, backlog and UAT evidence, and your AI rollout plan — reviewed 1:1, not via template.
Rewrite, don't proofread.
A one-page resume rebuilt around the ServiceNow modules you implemented, the agent you deployed, and the business outcome. Reviewed by engineers who've read 10,000+ resumes.
Where most opportunities actually live.
Profile tuning plus direct warm introductions into the ServiceNow Elite Partner network — Infosys, TCS, Deloitte, Accenture, Cognizant, NTT Data, Capgemini. You leave with recruiter contacts, not a generic "good luck."
Hundreds of ServiceNow careers launched — here are eight.
Come chat with us — over coffee, or over Zoom.
One flagship campus in Hyderabad, plus online ServiceNow classes running on Indian and US timezones.
Questions we actually get — answered honestly.
Straight answers on prerequisites, the platform, certifications, and placement. If something's missing, book a 20-minute advisor call — no slides, no pitch.
Do I need a CS background or prior ServiceNow experience?
Do I get a real ServiceNow developer instance to work on?
Which ServiceNow modules and AI tools will I actually build with?
Will I be ready for CSA, CAD and Now Assist certifications?
How is the learning workload structured?
Is placement support really 1:1, and which companies hire?
Online, weekend, or on-campus?
What if I fall behind, or can't continue mid-class?
Still have a question? Talk to an advisor — no slides, no pitch.
One million AI‑native professionals by 2027.
Let's put you in that number.
Book a 20‑minute advisor call. We'll map your current role to the right program, talk honestly about timelines, and walk you through a real class's project.








