> 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.

# Early-stage companies hiring FDEs

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies?stage=early&page=8

281 of 1,375 companies hiring FDEs are early-stage companies. Compare their open roles, locations and posted pay.

**451** postings · **281** of **1,375** companies · **261** with pay · median **$190,000** · middle half $163,000–$225,000 · read Nov 9, 2026

### [XDOF](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/xdof)

Early · About 51–200 people · Robotics data infrastructure and embodied AI

San Mateo, CA

1 posting

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