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# Forward Deployed Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/071d3883589bb277

Eagle posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $150,000–$300,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Embed with engineering firms to observe workflows and identify high-leverage problems. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Eagle](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/eagle)

Posted Jun 1, 2026 by Eagle · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$150,000–$300,000** New York, NY On-site Full-time

Embed with engineering firms to observe workflows and identify high-leverage problems.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$150K–$300K Above the median

Midpoint $225K · median $190K

This job $150K to $300K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept
3. Implementation
4. Operations

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now?

The job is in New York, NY. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Eagle

Posted by Eagle on Jun 1, 2026

### About Eagle

Eagle is on a mission to re-energize the engineering profession. Every road, bridge, and building starts at an engineering firm. There are 40K+ of them in the US, and most run on software older than the engineers using it.

This legacy toolset was designed before the term "user experience" ever existed and it's demotivating, error-prone, and slow. We're building the iron man suit for civil engineers to pull them out of this tedium and get them back to designing the future of our built environment.

Eagle was founded by Mayank Mardia (CEO), Sohum Daftary (President), and Thomas Shouler, P.E. (CTO), and is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

### The opportunity

As a **Forward Deployed Engineer**, you're the tip of the spear. You'll embed inside the firms we work with—sitting beside structural, civil, and MEP engineers who've often never worked with a software company—find the workflows where technology creates the most leverage, and ship tools that work in weeks, not quarters. You own the outcome, not a ticket. And after winning at the edge, you'll work with the rest of the team to compound what you learned into universal product leverage for Eagle. You get a front-row seat to building a company from zero on a problem domain that's barely been touched by AI.

### What you'll do

- Embed on-site with engineers at the firms we work with—watch how they work, earn their trust, and find the highest-leverage problems to solve
- Sit with noisy, conflicting feedback from users and distill it into a clear opinion about what to build
- Own outcomes end-to-end: discovery, build, deployment, debugging in prod, and iterating live with the people using it
- Ship fast and bespoke when the deployment demands it—then feed every lesson back into a platform that compounds across firms
- Do whatever the deployment needs: wire up integrations to legacy Windows-native AEC software, write the scraper, or stand up an off-the-shelf tool to test an idea before you build the real thing
- Collaborate directly with the CTO on technical direction, engineering culture, and what we build next

### Our Values

- **Ask Why:** We have a beginner’s mind, incessantly ask questions, and share our success with others. We always want to know what we can be doing better.
- **Read the Room:** We read the situation and meet people where they are, whether that's a counterparty, a client, or each other. We listen first and understand how our words and actions impact one another.
- **Get on a Flight:** We have dogged persistence. We operate with a sense of urgency with our work and careers, and we want to push and be pushed.

### Technology

- Frontend: NextJS on Vercel, Tailwind CSS
- Backend: Kotlin for web services, Python for data
- Infra: Multitenant shared infra on AWS via Pulumi

### Compensation

- Competitive cash compensation ($150K–$300K depending on experience)
- Founding equity, scaled to scope

### Benefits

- **Health Insurance:** Full healthcare, medical and dental
- **Retirement:** 401(k)
- **PTO:** Flexible time off
- **Travel:** Company-paid
- **Office:** HQ in New York City

### Process

Our process takes about 2 weeks: a conversation with Tom or Mayank, a second founder conversation, a 60 minute technical interview, followed by a work trial where you'll get to meet the rest of the team and build with us for a day.

[View posting at Eagle](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/eagle/ddd07f46-a42a-4709-8e19-091d5145a9e7/application)

## About Eagle

Eagle acquires and partners with engineering firms, embedding AI and custom tools to improve engineering workflows and firm operations.

Seed · 10–50 people

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