> 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. # Forward Deployed Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2461ce18bece87ad Waniwani posts a FDE role to plan what the customer deploys first in US with no pay posted. Own the process from signed enterprise deal through live deployment for Waniwani’s insurance and banking AI assistant infrastructure. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Waniwani](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/waniwani) Posted Jul 22, 2026 by Waniwani · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted US Remote Full-time Own the process from signed enterprise deal through live deployment for Waniwani’s insurance and banking AI assistant infrastructure. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F2461ce18bece87ad&placement=top) - [View posting at Waniwani](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa/9040c373-0434-4274-b40d-6a18c1f7f803/application) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Plans what the customer deploys first Balance **Mostly pre-sales or support** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: No coding - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: US - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Remote work restrictions**: Remote-first; based in Europe. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Nelnet](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nelnet) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f9333761d3db184d) US Remote 6w ago $140,000–$185,000 [Cursor (Anysphere)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/cursor-anysphere) ### [Forward Deployed Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ca0a94214e9307a) US Remote 3mo ago Pay not posted [Afresh](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/afresh) ### [Deployment Strategist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1960ef4a20e750b6) San Francisco, CA Remote 7w ago $171,200–$256,800 · OTE - [Other jobs at Waniwani (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/waniwani) ## The job description from Waniwani Posted by Waniwani on Jul 22, 2026 ### About Waniwani Waniwani builds the infrastructure that distributes insurance and banking products through AI assistants. We raised an $8M seed led by Seedcamp and work with large European banks and insurers. Each enterprise deal has to be scoped, architected, and deployed into a regulated environment. This role owns the layer between a signed deal and a live deployment. ### The role - **Customer workshops, discovery, and requirements (35%).** Run technical discovery and workshops with each client, and translate their needs into clear, buildable product requirements for our sales, ops, and engineering teams. Flag what we need to build to support a given setup, such as client self-hosting. - **Solution architecture and documentation (35%).** Design the end-to-end MCP flow and integration architecture for each client, including hosted versus on-premise scenarios, and produce the technical documentation enterprise clients require (BPI France alone is roughly 50 docs). - **Procurement, security, and delivery oversight (30%).** Use our existing compliance library (SOC 2 program, DPAs, prior questionnaire answers) to complete security questionnaires, handle security committees and data-residency questions, and drive procurement to completion. Oversee the MCP deployment itself, which our freelancer network implements. Across all three, you build the reusable kit that makes this repeatable: scoping templates, architecture patterns, and a procurement answer library. ### Objectives - **90 days:** own scoping and procurement response for active deals, with the reusable kit used on at least one live deal end to end. - **6 months:** run the full signed-to-live pipeline, including architecture decisions and procurement ownership, without founders in the critical path. - **12 months:** a repeatable delivery process with patterns reused across clients, and a case for the first hire under this role. ### Requirements - You are technically credible: you read code, reason fluently about integrations and the MCP and agent stack, and can scope and oversee a deployment. This is not a hands-on production-coding role; implementation is handled by our freelancer network. - You are comfortable leading technical conversations with enterprise clients. - You can drive a security questionnaire or procurement process to completion from existing documentation. - You have worked in or near regulated industries (finance, insurance) and understand compliance and data residency requirements. - You work well in ambiguity across sales, ops, and engineering, and ramp into new domains quickly. - You have an interest in the MCP and agent stack. - You are open to traveling from time to time across Europe and the US to meet clients. ### What this role is not - A backend engineering role. You will work with clients most of the week. - A pure pre-sales role. You own architecture, requirements, and delivery oversight, not only the pitch. - A slideware role. You need real technical depth, even though you are not writing production code day to day. ### Practicalities - Remote-first, based in Europe. Expect travel roughly once a month, primarily Paris, London, and Madrid, with US travel around the 6-month mark. Being able to come to Paris occasionally is a plus but not required. - First hire in this function, working directly with the founders and the engineering team. ### Process - Intro call with our talent partner. - 30-minute conversation with Max, our CTO. - Work sample based on a real client scenario (live session): scope the flow, draft the architecture, and handle a mock procurement Q&A. - Discussions with Robin, our CEO, Luiza, and members of the tech team. - Reference checks. [View posting at Waniwani](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa/9040c373-0434-4274-b40d-6a18c1f7f803/application) ## About Waniwani Provides infrastructure for service vendors to distribute, measure, optimize, and govern quotes and sales through AI assistants. 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