> 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. # Full Stack Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/30c386db283fe27c Ciridae posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Own production delivery of customer-specific applications from validated prototype through launch and iteration, spanning frontend, backend, data, integrations, LLM orchestration, and operations. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Ciridae](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) Posted Aug 5, 2026 by Ciridae · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Own production delivery of customer-specific applications from validated prototype through launch and iteration, spanning frontend, backend, data, integrations, LLM orchestration, and operations. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F30c386db283fe27c&placement=top) - [View posting at Ciridae](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciridae/54aa828c-83cb-455e-b9e8-0d8005631503/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 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 - **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? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? 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**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [Petra Security](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/petra-security) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ac67d87a1e5c0c2c) San Francisco, CA On-site 1mo ago Pay not posted [Netic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/netic) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - Intern - 2026-2027](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6e1dc647e4936bf) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $138,000–$160,000 [Casca](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/casca) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/927bef3af6c8393d) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago $160,000–$265,000 - [Other jobs at Ciridae (3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) ## The job description from Ciridae Posted by Ciridae on Aug 5, 2026 *You turn a compelling prototype into the production system a customer actually runs on. Full-stack, at a pace that is not normal. This is a high-agency engineering role with unusual variety: every engagement brings a different industry, workflow, and technical problem. Our Forward Deployed Engineers go into the field, learn how the business works, establish the vision, and build the first version. You take that context and make it real: well-architected, reliable software that handles messy data, demanding users, and everything production exposes. While the FDE leads the customer relationship and communicates the vision, most of your time is spent building.* **What you own. **The application from validated prototype through launch and iteration: frontend, backend, data models, integrations, LLM orchestration, testing, deployment, and the operational plumbing that keeps it running. You translate field context into technical decisions and make complex AI systems intuitive for nontechnical users. This ownership includes identifying gaps, making architecture decisions, pushing back when solutions will not survive production. What you learn on one engagement becomes a reusable component, pattern, or capability that makes the next deployment faster **What you bring. **Deep full-stack engineering fundamentals. You have shipped production software across React and TypeScript on the frontend and Python, APIs, and Postgres on the backend. You can design clean data models, debug across the stack, and reason clearly about security, performance, reliability, and maintainability. You have production experience with LLM-powered applications and practical opinions about agents, RAG, tool use, evaluations, observability, and designing around non-deterministic behavior. You use AI deeply in your engineering workflow to build, debug, and iterate faster. You pair urgency with a high bar for code quality and production readiness. **Level.** We expect roughly 3+ years of software engineering experience, with demonstrated ownership of complex systems end-to-end. Technical depth and independent execution matter more than an exact number of years. [View posting at Ciridae](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ciridae/54aa828c-83cb-455e-b9e8-0d8005631503/application) ## About Ciridae Ciridae builds and operates custom AI operating systems that connect business records, workflows, and agents for mid-market companies. 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