> 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. # Senior Software Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/28aded475bf05fc5 Pearson posts a senior FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Durham, NC and 1 more, at $95,000–$160,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. A senior, forward-deployed engineer on Pearson’s AgentOps team in the Office of the CTO will discover business workflows and build production-grade agentic applications with users. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Pearson](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pearson) Posted Nov 5, 2026 by Pearson · open on Oracle Cloud as of Nov 6, 2026 **$95,000–$160,000** Durham, NC +1 Full-time A senior, forward-deployed engineer on Pearson’s AgentOps team in the Office of the CTO will discover business workflows and build production-grade agentic applications with users. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F28aded475bf05fc5&placement=top) - [View posting at Pearson](https://hccz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2/job/24914) 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 $95K–$160K Below the median Midpoint $128K · median $190K This job $95K to $160K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** building and shipping production software Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Durham, NC · Hoboken, NJ. Could you work in one of these? 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