> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt.

# Bootstrapped companies hiring FDEs

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies?stage=bootstrapped&page=2

42 of 1,376 companies hiring FDEs are bootstrapped companies. Compare their open roles, locations and posted pay.

**95** postings · **42** of **1,376** companies · **52** with pay · median **$200,000** · middle half $165,000–$224,000 · read Nov 8, 2026

### [Transluce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/transluce)

Bootstrapped · About 1–50 people · AI safety and interpretability nonprofit

San Francisco, CA

1 posting

### [Woongjin](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/woongjin)

Bootstrapped · About 51–200 people · IT Staffing & Consulting / ERP Services

Plano, TX

1 posting

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