> 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 and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?level=staff&management=ic&stage=poc 16 staff-level forward deployed engineer and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept, from 16 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $203,000 to $256,000. **16** postings · **16** companies · 13 state pay: median **$238,000**, half $203,000–$256,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Sequen](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sequen) Builds what the customer runs ### [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) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Forward Deployed Applied Scientist (Agentic AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4078b92dfa142527) Seattle, WA Hybrid 6mo ago $220,000–$239,000 [Mozilla](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mozilla) Builds what the customer runs ### [Staff Product Engineer, Enterprise AI ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e9307d8ee55893ca) US Remote 5w ago $185,000–$220,000 [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) Builds what the customer runs ### [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) Builds what the customer runs ### [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 [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Staff Software Engineer, AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/14188cf726c60b03) Costa Mesa, CA New · 2d ago $220,000–$292,000 [Lockheed Martin](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lockheed-martin) ### [AI Research Engineer Stf - Engineering Transformation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7b01cbb0551581ee) TX Remote 8d ago $120,600–$224,000 [Pathos AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pathos-ai) ### [Staff Software / AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b3e5dec5f331c152) New York, NY Hybrid 13d ago $180,000–$200,000 [Mirion Technologies, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mirion-technologies-inc) ### [Staff AI Solutions Engineer - Nuclear & Safety](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/78324c76f0089b66) Meriden, CT 2w ago Pay not posted [Navan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/navan) ### [Senior GTM Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2a1539166273430e) Austin, TX 7w ago Pay not posted [Cirrus Logic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cirrus-logic) ### [Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ab84d1b7ca93f0ac) Austin, TX Hybrid 2mo ago Pay not posted [Vertex Pharmaceuticals](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vertex-pharmaceuticals) ### [Principal Full Stack AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3d554cffe1ee5e18) Boston, MA Hybrid 3mo ago $166,640–$250,000 [Interface AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/interface-ai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, Business Automation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/414ef0024c84432a) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $220,000–$260,000 [SpaceX](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/spacex) ### [Operations Engineer, Applied AI (Application Software) ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/52b5e77d0edc1884) Vandenberg, CA On-site 3mo ago $100,000–$160,000 [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) ### [Staff Software Engineer (Applied AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f561d0a23f932b54) Cupertino, CA 6mo ago $194,600–$293,900 [Turing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turing) Leads the deployment team ### [Staff Research Engineer, Enterprise Knowledge](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06f45dde0a490569) US · city not listed 11mo ago $250,000–$400,000 · OTE 10 of 16 build for teams inside the company. [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Flevel%3Dstaff%26management%3Dic%26stage%3Dpoc&placement=alert) New staff-level fde and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept go out by email once you have an account and set an alert. [Compare pay across US FDE roles →](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary) ## Frequently asked questions ### What do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept pay? 13 of 16 postings state a pay range. The median is $238,000, and half of them sit between $203,000 and $256,000, from 13 companies. ### How much experience do staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept require? Of 16 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 under 3 years (2), 10 or more years (2) or 3 to 5 years (1). ### Which companies are hiring for staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept? These 16 postings come from 16 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) (1), [Apple](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apple) (1), [Cirrus Logic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cirrus-logic) (1), [Crusoe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/crusoe) (1) and [DigitalOcean](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/digitalocean) (1). ### Are staff-level FDE and deployment jobs for individual contributors involving proof of concept remote? 3 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 4 are hybrid and 3 are on-site. The remaining 6 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 2 of the 16 postings. Counted over the 16 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Responsibility levels reflect our reading of the work, not just the employer’s title. 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