> 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/2f8eb76b632c3382 Aslan posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in US · city not listed with no pay posted. A forward deployed engineer embeds with intelligence and government customers to build production code that adapts Aslan's platform to live operational missions. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Aslan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aslan) Posted Jul 9, 2026 by Aslan · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted US · city not listed Full-time A forward deployed engineer embeds with intelligence and government customers to build production code that adapts Aslan's platform to live operational missions. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F2f8eb76b632c3382&placement=top) - [View posting at Aslan](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aslan/d416c8ac-76e2-47a2-bf20-5455b35153c5/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 Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** software engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? 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 [People Culture Talent](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/people-culture-talent) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7a42ea1d94e827c7) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago Pay not posted [Pace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pace) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Customer Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/78f92c6ecdd7b1f1) New York, NY On-site 2w ago Pay not posted [Linero](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/linero) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/39897d2ff830e8ee) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $160,000–$250,000 ## The job description from Aslan Posted by Aslan on Jul 9, 2026 ### Role We're hiring a forward deployed engineer to embed with Aslan's customers and write the code that makes our platform solve their specific mission. You'll sit alongside intelligence analysts, targeting officers, and federal agents, learn the operational problem they're actually trying to solve, and build until the platform does something they can't live without. The threats our operators face destroy lives at scale, and the people fighting them have never had a tool built for the terrain those threats now occupy. Every line of code you ship in the field puts capability in the hands of someone who has been outmatched by an adversary they couldn't previously reach. That's the weight of this job, and it's why it matters. This is an engineering role, not a deployment or support role. You write production code at customer sites. You take our core platform and make it work inside operational environments that are messy, sensitive, and unlike anything the product team could have anticipated. You build the custom integrations, the tailored workflows, the mission-specific configurations that turn a general capability into something indispensable for this operator, on this mission, with these targets. And you bring every pattern, every failure, every insight back to the core engineering team so the platform gets better for everyone. At this stage there is no playbook. You are the product team in the field. What the operator needs tomorrow is something nobody has built yet, and you'll figure it out on the ground, in real time, under real conditions. ### Responsibilities - Embed with customers and write production code that makes Aslan's platform solve their specific operational problem - Learn the customer's mission, targets, and workflows deeply enough to build the right thing, not the thing the product spec assumed - Build custom integrations, mission-specific agent configurations, tailored analytics, and operator-facing workflows that make the intelligence output actionable - Debug agent behavior in live operational environments and fix it with code, not escalation - Identify patterns across deployments and bring them back to the core engineering team as product insights that shape what gets built next - Iterate in days, not quarters, because the problems are live and the operators can't wait ### What You Bring - 3+ years of software engineering. You've shipped production code, not prototypes, and you've done it under pressure. - Full-stack generalist instincts. Whatever blocks the deployment becomes your job, whether that's backend services, data pipelines, agent configuration, or a UI the operator needs by morning. - Working knowledge of AI/ML systems, enough to reason about agent behavior, diagnose failures, and write the code that fixes them without waiting for the research team. - The ability to understand a domain that isn't yours. You'll sit with operators whose world you've never lived in and build software that fits their reality, not yours. - Self-directed to the core. When you're embedded, you're the engineering team. You make the calls. - DMV-based, willing to travel to customer sites regularly and stay for extended periods. ### Bonus Points - You've been embedded at a customer site writing production code, not visiting for a demo - Experience with AI agent systems, LLM applications, or autonomous systems in production - Prior work in classified, IC, or government environments - You've been the sole engineer on a live customer engagement at an early-stage company - Prior military, intelligence, or law enforcement background - Active, recent, or eligibility for a U.S. security clearance (TS preferred) [View posting at Aslan](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aslan/d416c8ac-76e2-47a2-bf20-5455b35153c5/application) ## About Aslan Builds human-supervised autonomous AI agents for digital investigations across national security, law enforcement, and transnational crime. 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