> 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. # Staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&management=ic&role=builds-for-customers 17 staff-level forward deployed engineer jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors, from 17 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $220,000 to $273,000. **17** postings · **17** companies · **12** with pay · median **$247,000** · middle half $220,000–$273,000 · read Nov 6, 2026 [Gradial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gradial) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0c5715c904689d35) Seattle, WA 9d ago $155,000–$225,000 [Figma](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/figma) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a3cc84cc99542a8d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Remote 2mo ago $153,000–$376,000 [Sequen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sequen) ### [Staff+ Forward Deployed Research Engineer – Ranking](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/263f46108ecd5df3) US Remote 4mo ago $300,000–$350,000 [DigitalOcean](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/digitalocean) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Applied Scientist (Agentic AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4078b92dfa142527) Seattle, WA Hybrid 6mo ago $220,000–$239,000 [Liatrio](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/liatrio) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/78beee344451f69f) US Remote 7mo ago Pay not posted [Vori](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vori) ### [Forward Deployed Data Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/10a63de25c991395) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 9mo ago Pay not posted [Microsoft](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/microsoft) ### [Principal Data Scientist - FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d348f59a7b18874) US · city not listed 2mo ago $142,800–$304,200 [Applied Computing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-computing) ### [Time Series Researcher - Forward deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cc1f72c9c38fbc10) Houston, TX 3mo ago Pay not posted [ServiceNow](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/servicenow) ### [Senior Staff Software Engineer_Voice AI Agent Prompting](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d423e0a0f5dccf01) Santa Clara, CA New · 2d ago $190,900–$334,100 [Mozilla](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mozilla) ### [Staff Product Engineer, Enterprise AI ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e9307d8ee55893ca) US Remote 5w ago $185,000–$220,000 [Red Cell Partners](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/red-cell-partners) ### [Staff Applied ML Engineer, Federal/National Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d7dbd0967123dff7) Washington, DC Remote 6w ago $180,000–$240,000 [Robots & Pencils](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/robots-pencils) ### [Staff AI/ML Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e002aca59f28dd0d) US Remote 7w ago Pay not posted [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) ### [Staff Applied AI Inference Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f6b6957db986de8d) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago $215,000–$260,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Staff Frontier Agents Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ce65194d3b4765e8) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more 3mo ago $265,000–$331,000 [Zus Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/zus-health) ### [Staff Integrations Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b63389e46f4a4275) US Remote 6mo ago Pay not posted [Flip](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flip) ### [Staff Software Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/53cf1a6fb6a947df) Marina Del Rey, CA · Williamsburg, NY On-site 8mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Staff Software Engineer, Active Clearance, Air Defense](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/07fb96b46de82a44) Irvine, CA Since 2025 $220,000–$292,000 All 17 of these jobs build what the customer runs. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Flevel%3Dstaff%26management%3Dic%26role%3Dbuilds-for-customers&placement=assist) [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Flevel%3Dstaff%26management%3Dic%26role%3Dbuilds-for-customers&placement=alert) Alerts for “Staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors” go out once you have an account. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors pay? 12 of 17 postings state a pay range. The median is $247,000, and half of them sit between $220,000 and $273,000, from 12 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors require? Of 17 postings, 10 state a minimum number of years, from 10 companies. The most common requirement is 6 to 9 years, in 5 of them. The rest ask for 3 to 5 years (3) or 10 or more years (2). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors? These 17 postings come from 17 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (1), [Applied Computing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-computing) (1), [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) (1), [DigitalOcean](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/digitalocean) (1) and [Figma](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/figma) (1). ### Are staff-level FDE jobs that build what the customer runs for individual contributors remote? 7 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 2 are hybrid and 2 are on-site. The remaining 6 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 7 of the 17 postings. Counted over the 17 postings in this search. 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