> 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 Headstart AI

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/headstart-ai

2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Headstart AI across 1 US metro.

Applied AI company that builds custom production systems for digitally native and enterprise businesses, alongside its own coding agent Friday.

Bootstrapped · About 1–50 people

**2 postings** 1 metro [Careers at Headstart AI ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Headstart) read Nov 6, 2026

## 2 open FDE roles at Headstart AI

### [Staff Engineer, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76a2f242cb8848a1)

New York, NY Hybrid 9mo ago

$265,000–$265,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76a2f242cb8848a1)

Leads the deployment team

### [Engineering Manager, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7fcca81372b018ea)

New York, NY Hybrid 5w ago

$285,000–$285,000

- [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7fcca81372b018ea)

1 of 2 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).

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## How Headstart AI describes FDE work

Both postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. Both serve external customers, versus 86% of US FDE postings. One includes pre-sales work, versus 24% of US FDE postings. Both are read as senior or staff roles, versus 94% 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.

### [Sitreps](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sitreps)

Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA · +4 ·

$175,000

7 postings

### [PressW](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pressw)

Austin, TX

$118,000

3 postings

### [Rackner](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rackner)

Dayton, OH · Remote (US)

2 postings

Other FDE employers in New York metro

- [FDE and deployment jobs in New York metro](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=nyc-metro) · 2 Headstart AI postings · 436 companies

Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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