> 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/35ce3c8a8138f437 SageOx posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Seattle, WA with no pay posted. The first Forward Deployed Engineer will partner directly with customers, onboarding teams onsite and converting friction into fixes and features in SageOx's core product. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [SageOx](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sageox) Posted Aug 18, 2026 by SageOx · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted Seattle, WA On-site Full-time The first Forward Deployed Engineer will partner directly with customers, onboarding teams onsite and converting friction into fixes and features in SageOx's core product. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F35ce3c8a8138f437&placement=top) - [View posting at SageOx](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/SageOx/aa6763d0-064e-428d-88cb-e26c1aa75678/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 **Mixed** 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 ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Seattle, WA. 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**: Seattle, WA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Remote work restrictions**: In person, five days a week in Seattle. Bay Area-based candidates may be in Seattle at least two weeks per month through end of 2026. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — Agentforce Orchestration](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa41a1949bc5bc55) Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +9 more 2mo ago $88,970–$316,750 [Reailize](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/reailize) ### [Senior Data Engineer - Contract](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/134036fbbf08fd7c) Brookhaven, GA · Bellevue, WA · +4 more 11d ago Pay not posted [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (Model Customization and Optimization), AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26e06cc5e8aaa519) Boston, MA · Seattle, WA · +3 more 2w ago $143,700–$213,800 ## The job description from SageOx Posted by SageOx on Aug 18, 2026 SageOx is a well-funded, early-stage startup building the hivemind for human-AI teams: shared memory and collaboration tools that keep people and AI coworkers genuinely aligned and productive as one team. We're hiring our first Forward Deployed Engineer to be our builder at the customer boundary. ### The Job Be SageOx's builder at the customer boundary — the first line of partnership for every team we serve. Embedded where customers live (their Slack, their office), this engineer turns friction into shipped product: educating teams, unlocking value, and building the fixes and features that customer experience demands. Customers reach daily-active use because this person exists — and the roadmap stays directly aligned to customer needs because of the feedback they synthesize. ### What You'll Actually Do - **First line of engagement:** Live where customers live; catch issues as they arrive; triage everything; fix some directly and escalate only what genuinely needs deeper core-engineering context — with a clean repro and context. Today the engagement surface is shared Slack channels — right for now, while we're under ~30 teams and know every one by name — but over time it may shift. This person helps identify the best way to stay engaged and meets customers where they are. - **Onboard new customers onsite:** Run onboarding in person at the customer's office — setup, workflow design with their team, first-value moments witnessed and secured. - **Build on the core product.** This is not a support role with a code editor nearby — this person IS a builder. They own customer-reported items end-to-end: bug to merged PR, small feature to shipped. The customer-reported queue is their backlog into the core codebase, and their commits are how customer pain becomes product, fast. - **Create value, not just fixes:** Design solutions and workflows with customer teams, educate users into power users, and turn recurring questions into reusable teaching — docs, how-tos, office hours. The job is measured in value unlocked, not tickets closed. - **Own the signal loop:** A daily and weekly customer digest for the whole team — issues, trends, feature friction, use-case patterns, verbatim quotes. This is how the team stays connected to customer truth without carrying the response traffic; it's a first-class deliverable, not a side note. - **Shorten time-to-value every week:** Each onboarding and each recurring issue should produce a fix, a doc, or a product suggestion that makes the next customer faster. ### Who We're Looking For - **Profile in one line:** An engineer who chooses people — a builder with real technical chops who discovered they're happiest at the customer boundary: sharing, educating, helping, unlocking value. - **Experience:** Software engineer who migrated toward customers, or a solutions/support/sales engineer at a dev-tool or infra startup who ships fixes themselves. Early-startup exposure strongly preferred over big-co support orgs. - **Technical bar:** Debug an integration end-to-end and ship small features — not only bug fixes — unsupervised. Fast, pragmatic; moves independently but knows when to flag, ask for help, or request review. - **Cultural fit:** Energized (not drained) by customer pings and onsite visits; patient teacher; writes clearly — the digest and the onboarding materials are writing deliverables, and good ones compound: every improvement lets more teams self-onboard or self-unblock, easing this person's own load over time; embraces transparency; focused on making the team win. - **AI-native:** Comfortable with agent workflows and AI tooling; they'll be teaching customers to work with AI coworkers, so they must work that way themselves. - **Logistics:** Onsite onboarding makes travel a real constraint — genuinely travel-willing. ### Location — Seattle, In Person Same as every role here. In person, five days a week, in Seattle. FDE travel to customer sites happens occasionally — think a few days a quarter, not permanent road-warrior life. One narrow exception: Bay Area-based candidates we can get to Seattle at least two weeks a month, through end of 2026. ### How We Hire No traditional interviews. We'll clear an initial assessment and invite you to a work trial: 3–5 days in Seattle, working on something real alongside the team, the way the team actually works. Most of what matters shows up there faster than any interview loop could reveal. Ajit wrote up why we hire this way: **Read the post** → ### SageOx Today $15M seed led by Canaan, with A.Capital, Pioneer Square Labs, and Founders' Co-op. Founded by Ajit Banerjee (AWS EC2/EBS, XetHub → Hugging Face), Ryan Snodgrass (early Amazon, Kindle/AWS-scale cloud systems), and Milkana Brace (EVP Product at Remitly). Small on purpose. **More about the team** → ### Compensation Competitive salary and meaningful equity. We'll talk specifics once we know it's a real mutual fit. 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