> 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 that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area with visa sponsorship Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area&role=builds-for-customers&visa=yes 28 forward deployed engineer jobs that build what the customer runs in the SF Bay Area with visa sponsorship, from 26 employers. Half of those that post pay offer $218,000 to $300,000. **28** postings · **26** companies · 23 state pay: median **$256,000**, half $218,000–$300,000 Postings read on November 6, 2026 · Updated November 6, 2026 [Wafer](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/wafer) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/92a4f62e58e7827e) San Francisco, CA On-site New · Today Pay not posted [jeffreym-consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/jeffreym-consulting) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/160095c9c45ee8af) San Francisco, CA On-site New · Today $180,000–$250,000 [FlowGen Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flowgen-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fa7ffc811510f1d) San Francisco, CA On-site 12d ago $200,000–$375,000 [reasonable](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/reasonable) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0ebbfc19bc89fae) San Francisco, CA 13d ago Pay not posted [Prime Intellect](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/prime-intellect) ### [Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0ed15e783d00992e) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Remote 2w ago $150,000–$300,000 [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6820987055206e6d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more Hybrid 3w ago $280,000–$320,000 [ResolveAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/resolveai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fbf9861d61dda44) San Francisco, CA On-site 3w ago Pay not posted [Dryft](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dryft) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/731b4e96e4cfa35f) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted [Docker, Inc](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/docker-inc) ### [Principal Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6d3e67e51b2bef4) San Francisco, CA Remote 4w ago $198,000–$319,000/mo [Inferact](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/inferact) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/70641fd7886753d9) San Francisco, CA Remote 4w ago $200,000–$400,000 [Sim](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sim) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f40e24220cfe7740) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $190,000–$250,000 [Gray Swan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gray-swan) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2f8298f975b489cb) San Francisco, CA Remote 2mo ago $175,000–$220,000 [Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-aiuc) ### [Forward-Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/575779887c729d4d) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [Apollo Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apollo-research) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Product)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7394fd0a5648bf6e) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $222,000–$290,000 [Halluminate](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/halluminate) ### [Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/eb88eb3f3b97061e) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $215,000–$275,000 [HUD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hud) ### [Forward Deployed Research Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e1d90d94cc954944) San Francisco, CA Remote 3mo ago $100,000–$180,000 [Periodic Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/periodic-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f51097ef995e7154) Menlo Park, CA On-site 5mo ago $250,000–$350,000 [Profound](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/profound) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fc8070eaf3deefc7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 12mo ago $140,000–$260,000 [Pulse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulse) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/90635a8118ec8c9c) San Francisco, CA On-site 15mo ago $140,000–$200,000 [Exa (formerly Metaphor)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/exa-formerly-metaphor) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, SF](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/754262bce98e3326) San Francisco, CA On-site 16mo ago $160,000–$300,000 [Isidor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/isidor) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6493c976512eaa0e) San Francisco, CA On-site 12mo ago Pay not posted [Bespoke Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bespoke-labs) ### [MTS, Post-Training (Enterprise)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96da9294487106dd) Mountain View, CA · San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago $300,000–$350,000 [Firecrawl](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/firecrawl) ### [Implementation Specialist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6fc09f980b55256d) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $209,000–$265,000 [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) ### [Staff+ Software Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b777191a511ed82d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +1 more Hybrid 6mo ago $405,000–$485,000 [Transluce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/transluce) ### [AI Behavior Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/064476c718d3c08f) San Francisco, CA On-site 6mo ago $310,000–$500,000 [Cartesia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cartesia) ### [Enterprise Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/18c1909e6d2fb8f0) San Francisco, CA On-site 10mo ago $180,000–$250,000 [Applied Compute](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-compute) ### [Applied Research Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ec99a6997bc027a9) San Francisco, CA On-site 12mo ago $200,000–$320,000 [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) ### [Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61bf3caa773548de) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 10mo ago $200,000–$320,000 All 28 build what the customer runs. [Get new postings like these by email](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%3Fregion%3Dsf-bay-area%26role%3Dbuilds-for-customers%26visa%3Dyes&placement=alert) New fde jobs that build what the customer runs in sf bay area with visa sponsorship 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 FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area with visa sponsorship pay? 23 of 28 postings state a pay range. The median is $256,000, and half of them sit between $218,000 and $300,000, from 21 companies. ### Which companies are hiring for FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area with visa sponsorship? These 28 postings come from 26 companies. The employers with the most postings are [Anthropic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anthropic) (3), [Apollo Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/apollo-research) (1), [Applied Compute](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-compute) (1), [Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-aiuc) (1) and [Bespoke Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bespoke-labs) (1). ### Are FDE jobs that build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area with visa sponsorship remote? 5 postings allow remote work from the US. Another 3 are hybrid and 19 are on-site. The remaining 1 say nothing about arrangement. Travel is mentioned in 9 of the 28 postings. Counted over the 28 postings in this search. Postings read on November 6, 2026. These are the postings Nextmove tracks today, not a market survey. Employer postings · Locations cover the metro area, not only the city. Sponsorship is stated in the posting. 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