> 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. # FDE jobs at Applied Intuition Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-intuition 4 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Applied Intuition across 2 US metros. Median posted base pay $180,000. Builds the toolchain, Vehicle OS and autonomy stacks that automakers, defense and off-road OEMs use to ship AI-driven vehicles. Later private · About 1,001–5,000 people **4 postings** 2 metros median posted base $180,000 [Careers at Applied Intuition ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/applied) read Nov 6, 2026 ## 4 open FDE roles at Applied Intuition ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/052b3216757ba0ba) Sunnyvale, CA On-site 1mo ago $130,000–$200,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/052b3216757ba0ba) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - New Grad (2027)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fae357470701c01) Sunnyvale, CA On-site 2mo ago $130,000–$158,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fae357470701c01) ### [Robotics Integration Engineer, Tech Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fb93c7f671aa958) Sunnyvale, CA On-site 2mo ago $180,000–$210,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fb93c7f671aa958) Leads the deployment team ### [Software Engineering Manager (Defense/PhysicalAI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/54e611b0f8201f20) Arlington, VA On-site 2mo ago $250,000–$300,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/54e611b0f8201f20) 3 of 4 postings are hands-on engineering in the customer’s own systems. Rows that do other work name it. Compare these roles with [pay ranges at other US FDE employers](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary). - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fcompanies%2Fapplied-intuition&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Applied Intuition describes FDE work All four postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. All four serve external customers, versus 86% of US FDE postings. All four are read as senior or staff roles, versus 94% of US FDE postings. One mentions travel, versus 42% of US FDE postings. Read from the current postings listed here, not from company-wide policy. [Compare with all US FDE postings and read the method →](https://nextmove.md/fde/research) ## Compare with similar employers Employers at a similar size or stage. ### [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Washington, DC · +8 · $233,000 21 postings ### [LMI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lmi) Remote (US) · Washington, DC · Fort Bragg, NC · +5 · $172,000 17 postings ### [Agile Defense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/agile-defense) Fort Meade, MD · Arlington, VA · Colorado Springs, CO · +8 · 14 postings Other FDE employers in SF Bay Area and Washington, DC area - [FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) · 3 Applied Intuition postings · 482 companies - [FDE and deployment jobs in Washington, DC area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=dmv) · 1 Applied Intuition posting · 130 companies Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) - [Hiring FDEs like Applied Intuition? Tell us the role →](https://nextmove.md/fde/employers?intent=hiring_discussion#hiring-form)