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Amazon Web Services vice president for forward-deployed engineering, Asa Kalavade, said the company is looking for a specific skill set. Forward-deployed engineers are one of the hottest jobs in AI. Finding them isn't easy. "These are unicorns," Asa Kalavade, vice president of forward-deployed engineering at Amazon Web Services, told Business Insider. Like its rivals, Amazon has made a big bet on the future of FDEs. In June, AWS announced a $1 billion investment to create a dedicated AWS FDE organization. Popularized by Palantir, FDEs are often embedded with companies to integrate AI into their workflows and to build more customized solutions. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Microsoft have announced major initiatives in recent months to compete for the lucrative enterprise AI business. Forrester estimates that between May and July alone, the three companies and Amazon pledged roughly $9 billion to FDE-related ventures. "FDE hiring is sort of the rage in town these days," Kalavade said. "Everybody wants to be an FDE. "Amazon is being selective as it builds the team, Kalavade said, initially focusing on engineers who can hit the ground running.

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Affordability issues and more restrictive immigration laws have forced a Canmore boutique and gift store to close its doors next month and move its operations online. "I guess in the end it doesn't really feel like it was my decision at all," said Laura Bodell, owner of Alberta's Own Marketplace, which sells locally produced fine art, souvenirs, Indigenous blankets, bath and body items, men's grooming products, jewellery and apparel. Bodell has been searching for a manager since March. In the past six months, the store received only five applicants, all of whom weren't qualified for the job. "Even with my team having made over $30 an hour this summer, we were only getting high school student applicants," Bodell told Postmedia. "So heading into fall, that level of availability just can't keep us going. "Her team has shrunk to three staffers, most of whom are immigrants. One is from Ukraine and is trying to bring her husband to Canada. Bodell said the staffer has decided to move back to her country because Canada's stricter rules would not allow her husband to immigrate here.