> 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. # Deployment Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3321c5afac6894e6 Maxima posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Mateo, CA with no pay posted. A customer-facing Deployment Engineer who takes enterprise accounting customers from technical sales and proof of concept through implementation and production support. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Maxima](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/maxima) Posted Sep 10, 2026 by Maxima · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Mateo, CA On-site Full-time A customer-facing Deployment Engineer who takes enterprise accounting customers from technical sales and proof of concept through implementation and production support. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3321c5afac6894e6&placement=top) - [View posting at Maxima](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maxima/a5dab8d7-23f9-4b5c-a109-ee0afc22d257/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 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** forward deployed engineering, sales engineering, implementation engineering, or solutions engineering Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** - **Forward deployed engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Mateo, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Maxima was built so they don't have to. Our agents do the accounting work itself: journal entries, transaction matching, reconciliations, and flux analysis, continuously and with a full audit trail. Accountants review and approve. Nothing posts without a person signing off. We remove the grind, not the human. Maxima is the agentic AI platform for enterprise accounting. Our three co-founders scaled finance at Rubrik from $5M ARR to a $15B NYSE IPO, built the reconciliation and billing systems behind Netflix's $32B in annual revenue, and built AI infrastructure serving two billion monthly users at Meta. We've raised $41M from Redpoint Ventures, Kleiner Perkins and Audacious Ventures, joined by former BlackLine executives and the CFOs of Rubrik and Vanta. To date we've processed more than $400B across 350M transactions at 100.00% accuracy, for customers including Scale AI, Rippling, Glean, Zendesk, Handshake, Zip, and Decagon. We're early and moving fast. The playbook here gets written, not inherited, and the person closest to the work makes the call. We're looking for people who build from first principles and hold themselves accountable for what actually lands — people who'd rather build the category than join it. Everything you need to know is below. ### The role As a **Deployment Engineer**, you get customers live. You will sit alongside Account Executives through complex deal cycles, run technical proofs of concept, and then build what each customer needs to launch: integrations to their transaction systems, custom modules, and prompt and model tuning so the AI performs the way their accounting requires. When something breaks in production, you are the one who fixes it. This is engineering with a customer in the room. Communication matters as much as code. ### What you'll do - Work with Account Executives on complex deal cycles involving multiple stakeholders - Run technical proof-of-concept processes and present tailored demos based on customer and business needs - Lead technical discovery calls and write the implementation scoping document for each customer that launches with Maxima - Tune prompts and models to get the right AI performance for each client - Build integrations to transaction systems such as revenue, billing, and accounts payable, and the custom modules customers need to go live - Partner with product and engineering to deliver on customer requests and advocate for customer needs - Troubleshoot, debug, fix, and upgrade software for reliable performance in production, and support deployed solutions over time ### What we're looking for - 2 or more years in forward deployed engineering, sales engineering, implementation engineering, or solutions engineering - Bachelor's degree in any engineering discipline; computer science preferred but not required - Strong verbal and written communication skills and comfort working directly with customers - Proficiency in languages such as Go, TypeScript, or Python - Experience working with Account Executives on technical sales processes for enterprise customers - Proactive, highly motivated, and able to handle the intensity and pace of a startup ### Where and how you'll work This role is based in our San Mateo office. We value in-person collaboration and are in office five days a week for our on-site roles. ### Why join Maxima - **The work.** Agentic accounting is a category being defined right now, and Maxima is one of the companies defining it. The product does the accounting work itself, so what you build, sell, or deploy shows up in a customer's books - **The people.** Founders who ran the finance org at Rubrik and built the close systems at Twitter and Netflix. Engineers from Robinhood, Glean, Google, Netflix, and Meta. Controllers and accountants on the team who have closed books themselves. Small teams in San Mateo and Toronto that work in the same room, say what they think, and hold a high bar - **The benefits.** Competitive salary, 401(k) for US employees, unlimited PTO, lunch in the office, and commuter benefits - **The process.** A person reads every application, and we tell you where you stand at every stage ### A note on AI *We build AI and we expect you to use it. Use it to research us and to prepare. In live conversations we want your own thinking in your own words, and if you use AI on a take-home exercise, tell us where it helped.* ### Equal opportunity *Maxima is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we will arrange it.* [View posting at Maxima](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Maxima/a5dab8d7-23f9-4b5c-a109-ee0afc22d257/application) ## Similar jobs [Elorian](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/elorian) ### [Software Engineer - Applications](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0686c28278c3efd2) Palo Alto, CA On-site 7d ago $250,000–$400,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/799ec8c403091b46) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/522df6273aa0eeb2) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$278,000 [Blockstream](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blockstream) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8d7b4ad9eeb4e065) Menlo Park, CA Hybrid 2mo ago Pay not posted [Simple AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/simple-ai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/048b7691c8a2aa85) San Francisco, CA On-site 2w ago $120,000–$200,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) - [Similar jobs that build what the customer runs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=builds-for-customers) Hiring at Maxima and want this page changed or removed? 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