> 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 Wafer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wafer 2 open forward deployed engineer (FDE) jobs at Wafer across 1 US metro. 1 new in the last 30 days. Continuously optimizes and serves AI inference workloads across models, kernels, serving engines, and accelerator hardware. Early (pre-seed–Series A) · About 1–50 people **2 postings, 1 new in the last 30 days** 1 metro [Careers at Wafer ↗](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/wafer) read Nov 9, 2026 Published Nov 6, 2026 · Updated Nov 8, 2026 ## 2 open FDE roles at Wafer ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/92a4f62e58e7827e) San Francisco, CA On-site 3d ago Pay not posted - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/92a4f62e58e7827e) ### [Member of Technical Staff](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7cacb3e166260f2d) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $250,000–$250,000 - [View job →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7cacb3e166260f2d) Both postings are hands-on engineering in the customer’s own systems. 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%2Fwafer&placement=top) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## How Wafer 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. 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. ### [Obin AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/obin-ai) New York, NY $240,000 5 postings ### [Realm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/realm) Remote (US) · Remote (Chicago, IL) · Remote (New York, NY) · +1 · $158,000 5 postings ### [Voltai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/voltai) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · 5 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 Wafer postings · 483 companies Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method) - [Hiring FDEs like Wafer? Tell us the role →](https://nextmove.md/fde/employers?intent=hiring_discussion#hiring-form)