> 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 Periodic Labs Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/periodic-labs 2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Periodic Labs across 1 US metro. AI scientists running autonomous robotic labs that synthesize and characterize materials, training models on real-world experimental feedback to accelerate discovery. Early (pre-seed–Series A) · About 51–200 people **2 postings** 1 metro [Careers at Periodic Labs ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/periodic-labs) read Nov 8, 2026 ## 2 open FDE roles at Periodic Labs Builds what the customer runs ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f51097ef995e7154) Menlo Park, CA On-site 5mo ago $250,000–$350,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f51097ef995e7154) ### [Product Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f58ee38e240df145) Menlo Park, CA On-site 12mo ago $250,000–$350,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f58ee38e240df145) 1 of 2 postings build for teams inside the company. 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%2Fperiodic-labs&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Periodic Labs describes FDE work Both postings describe production code, versus 80% of US FDE postings. Both serve external customers, versus 86% of US FDE postings. Both 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. ### [Eliza](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eliza) Remote (Remote, OR) · Austin, TX · New York, NY · +2 · 7 postings ### [Spear AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spear-ai) Washington, DC · Keyport, WA · Manassas, VA · +1 · 7 postings ### [Fundamental Research Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fundamental-research-labs) Remote (US) · Houston, TX 6 postings Other FDE employers in SF Bay Area - [FDE and deployment jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) · 2 Periodic Labs postings · 483 companies Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) - [Hiring FDEs like Periodic Labs? Tell us the role →](https://nextmove.md/fde/employers?intent=hiring_discussion#hiring-form)