> 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. # head of deployed engineering Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2acf28c1212964da Turbopuffer posts a FDE role to lead deployment teams in US · city not listed with no pay posted. Leads and develops the deployed engineering team, serving as a player-coach who owns technical outcomes across the sales cycle and customer lifecycle. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Turbopuffer](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turbopuffer) Posted Oct 19, 2026 by Turbopuffer · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted US · city not listed Full-time Leads and develops the deployed engineering team, serving as a player-coach who owns technical outcomes across the sales cycle and customer lifecycle. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F2acf28c1212964da&placement=top) - [View posting at Turbopuffer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/turbopuffer/b05eddf7-ebdf-47ff-99eb-7aa8a9e077c3/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, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Leads the deployment team Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Prototypes and scripts - **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? 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 · city not listed - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [AMD](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amd) ### [Director, Cluster Forward Deployment Engineering Data Center GPU](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dcbb2b5305ef3d6b) Santa Clara, CA 2w ago Pay not posted [SewerAI Corporation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sewerai-corporation) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ef58afd0dabd1577) US Remote 3w ago $160,000–$190,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Frontier Agent Engineering Manager, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d8e8f0dc286de03f) New York, NY 12d ago $252,000–$315,000 - [Other jobs at Turbopuffer (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/turbopuffer) ## The job description from Turbopuffer Posted by Turbopuffer on Oct 19, 2026 turbopuffer is looking for someone to lead and develop our deployed engineering function. DEs are the technical champions for our customers. They own the technical outcome of the sales cycle, and serve as the go-to technical partner as our customers explore scale, expansion, and renewals. Their work spans demos, POCs, benchmarks, firefighting, and whatever it takes to make our customers successful. ### what you'll do - lead and develop the DE team, as a player-coach - work closely with your peers in GTM to develop and refine the technical sales motion - act as a bridge between GTM and engineering teams, and as a voice of the customer - own the technical relationship end-to-end, from discovery, to expansion and renewal - spend time in-person visiting prospects and customers as a key part of the relationship - build concrete benchmarks, demos and POCs instead of slides, drive evaluations, guide implementations - treat customer problems as your own and don't rest until they're solved - live in customer slack channels, helping to solve problems and architect solutions - say no when we're not the right fit and always have a growth mindset ### must have - **leadership exp **- guiding the team is second nature. you constantly think about best practices, and document your work so others can learn from it. - **ai-first **- you are obviously agent pilled and understand how it unlocks another level to what we can provide - **commercial** - we unlock product ambition by reducing cost & reducing operational burden - **sales x technical** - you expertly balance the sales cycle with deep technical domain expertise - **data or database background** - you love looking at explain plans and optimizing schemas - **linux** - you're comfortable in terminals and reading logs - **python or javascript/typescript** - for building solutions and demos - **typist** - you can write well and can explain complex ideas simply - **human** - you build trust and know when you're in over your head ### nice to have - vector search or full-text search background - k8s and cloud platform experience - performance benchmarking experience ### tpuf is hardcore & whimsical. we value - overstep > understep - show > tell - complexity is earned - showing up as part of our customer’s team - making stuff easy to react to [View posting at Turbopuffer](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/turbopuffer/b05eddf7-ebdf-47ff-99eb-7aa8a9e077c3/application) ## About Turbopuffer Serverless vector and full-text search engine for AI products, built on object storage to deliver cheaper, highly scalable retrieval with strong multi-tenant isolation. 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