> 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 and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?companyStage=early&management=ic&page=4 299 forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies, from 214 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $160,000 to $225,000. **299** postings · **214** companies · 176 state pay: median **$190,000**, half $160,000–$225,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Nuvo](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nuvo) ### [New Grad Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f029e21a15d4f806) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY 2mo ago Pay not posted [Fundamental Research Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fundamental-research-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Data Scientist - Oil & Gas, Houston](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/099ad65296105598) Houston, TX Hybrid 2mo ago Pay not posted [Phylo, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/phylo-inc) ### [Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Scientist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/03585b42d1ef8a14) South San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $170,000–$275,000 [Interface](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/interface) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e625ff66a4c06b83) San Francisco, CA On-site 10mo ago Pay not posted [TrueFoundry](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/truefoundry) ### [ Senior AI/ML Engineer — LLM & Agent Stack (Customer Facing)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d01f7153b561e2b) New York, NY Hybrid New · Today Pay not posted [ChipAgents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chipagents) ### [Software Engineer, ML for EDA](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b4582d6cf8deb16) San Jose, CA On-site New · 2d ago $150,000–$350,000 [Traba](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/traba) ### [Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/38341ca6668dcc65) New York, NY New · 4d ago $200,000–$240,000 [Elorian](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/elorian) ### [Software Engineer - Applications](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0686c28278c3efd2) Palo Alto, CA On-site New · 5d ago $250,000–$400,000 [Axle Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/axle-health) ### [Senior Software Engineer, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6b7f3cfed515e2b) Santa Monica, CA On-site New · 6d ago $170,000–$200,000 [Neo.Tax](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/neo-tax) ### [Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b0d8ad66629a1f15) Palo Alto, CA Remote 7d ago $170,000–$190,000 [Thread AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thread-ai) ### [Senior Applied AI Engineer, Federal](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b563fb09ace6b66b) New York, NY 9d ago $180,000–$230,000 [Friday Harbor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/friday-harbor) ### [Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2dbcfc10986543c2) US Remote 10d ago $135,000–$165,000 [Sleuth Insights](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sleuth-insights) ### [Senior Software / Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8680836a0da5ee33) San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA Hybrid 13d ago $170,000–$210,000 [Destro AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/destro-ai) ### [Robotics Software Engineer - Field Deployment & Support](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cda51988bba4cfbd) Savannah, GA 13d ago Pay not posted [Judgment Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/judgment-labs) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Deployment Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4e63c57607c88bc3) San Francisco, CA On-site 2w ago Pay not posted [Uare.ai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/uare-ai) ### [Senior Machine Learning Engineer, Government (IL5)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/873b413fb92b5e7e) San Francisco, CA · Los Altos, CA On-site 2w ago $200,000–$260,000 [Titan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan) ### [Software Engineer - Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d60dbdf9f047bc4f) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 3w ago $180,000–$480,000 [Destro AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/destro-ai) ### [Robotics Software Engineer - Field Deployment & Support](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/42967df7691bfe95) Sumner, WA 13d ago Pay not posted [Pulley](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulley) ### [AI Operations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e641d7edbdd4483a) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 4w ago $150,000–$190,000 [Midstream Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/midstream-health) ### [Member of Technical Staff](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/569df5f76eede51b) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted [Clarium](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clarium) ### [Data Integration Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/33e7578031639112) US Remote 5w ago $130,000–$150,000 [Brain Co.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/brain-co) ### [Machine Learning Engineer, Applied AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9ff6a38b2556c3f6) New York, NY 5w ago $190,000–$325,000 [Andesite](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/andesite) ### [Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (TS Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/975a7d2cfa216c7e) US Remote 5w ago $180,000–$240,000 [Spherecast](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spherecast) ### [Senior Backend Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/da3fb47619992801) New York, NY 6w ago Pay not posted [Pangram Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pangram-labs) ### [Software Engineer - Customer Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d573e50d121dc1bf) New York, NY On-site 7w ago $120,000–$150,000 [LMArena](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lmarena) ### [Applied AI Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e7c8d205bebb130c) US · city not listed On-site 1mo ago $150,000–$250,000 [Altara](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/altara) ### [Software Engineer, Infrastructure](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9ca39e8fc4b3f006) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Edison Scientific](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/edison-scientific) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Cloud Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ec956d3e06abdc40) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $175,000–$240,000 [AZX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/azx) ### [Senior ML Engineer (Client Solutions)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6e5b32530967f267) US Remote 2mo ago $140,000–$230,000 [SF Tensor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sf-tensor) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training & Applied Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/790e35ccae399fab) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $275,000–$315,000 [Variance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/variance) ### [Software Engineer, Agent](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5a38ffba49062e2d) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Helios](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/helios) ### [Applied Intelligence Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5981309e6f071152) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $165,000–$225,000 [Paradigm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/paradigm) ### [Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d3cfd9fa982cc067) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $180,000–$280,000 [HavocAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/havocai) ### [Field Software Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6617d82b06e86d3) US Remote 2mo ago $150,000–$175,000 [Ambral](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ambral) ### [Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/69c5253c0fb82d6b) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $140,000–$175,000 [Fabric](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fabric) ### [Technical Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c03bb9c39bd753f4) US Remote 2mo ago $140,000–$170,000 [Bayesian Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bayesian-health) ### [Software Engineer, Application Integration](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8ae31e0a332243c3) US Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Genera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/genera) ### [Member of the Deployments Team (Early Career)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4ec477c9949cd20a) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Ciridae](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) ### [Full Stack Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/30c386db283fe27c) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [Voltai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/voltai) ### [Senior Software Engineer: Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ef71848de0857b2d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago Pay not posted 207 of 299 build what the customer runs. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies pay? 176 of 299 postings state a pay range. The median is $190,000, and half of them sit between $160,000 and $225,000, from 131 companies. ### How much experience do FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies require? Of 299 postings, 146 state a minimum number of years, from 114 companies. The most common requirement is 3 to 5 years, in 85 of them. The rest ask for under 3 years (52), 6 to 9 years (8) or 10 or more years (1). ### Which companies are hiring for FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies? These 299 postings come from 214 companies. The employers with the most postings are [H Company](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/h-company) (6), [Voltai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/voltai) (5), [Fundamental Research Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fundamental-research-labs) (4), [Rowspace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rowspace) (4) and [Rune Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rune-technologies) (4). ### Are FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors at early-stage companies remote? 47 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 53 are hybrid and 162 are on-site. The remaining 37 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 106 of the 299 postings. Counted over the 299 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. 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