Embedded Team
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
A team or person placed closely within another group or function so they can work with that group's needs directly rather than from a distant service model. Embedded teams are common in platform, design, security, and data work.
In plain English: A team or person working closely inside another group.
Example: "The security engineer became more effective once she joined the payments squad as an embedded team member instead of reviewing everything only at the end."