> 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, Brainbase Embed Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3a0e424458410fb4 Brainbase posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. The Forward Deployed Engineer manages one or more customer accounts through post-sales and deployment, embedded within customers as part of a multi-month, outcome-oriented program. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Brainbase](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/brainbase) Posted Aug 13, 2026 by Brainbase · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time The Forward Deployed Engineer manages one or more customer accounts through post-sales and deployment, embedded within customers as part of a multi-month, outcome-oriented program. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3a0e424458410fb4&placement=top) - [View posting at Brainbase](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainbaselabs/fb10369f-84a1-481a-872f-bbcfe9f075a0/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 Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **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 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 [Phylo, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/phylo-inc) ### [Member of Technical Staff - Forward Deployed Scientist](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/03585b42d1ef8a14) South San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $170,000–$275,000 [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/d1798a89ed0fd75b) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 12d ago $143,700–$223,600 [Flow Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flow-engineering) ### [Senior Software Engineer - Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/82b6f49d675334f9) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $190,000–$250,000 ## The job description from Brainbase Posted by Brainbase on Aug 13, 2026 ### About Brainbase Brainbase is building the primitives for the next 1B agents. We power internal agents across government, Fortune 500, frontier labs and hyper-growth startups. Enterprises use our configurable primitives such as evals, observability, router, authentication, permissions, sandboxes, harnesses and more to deploy internal agents securely at scale. We support 8+ harness and 50+ models, including sovereign deployments. ### About Brainbase Embed Brainbase Embed is a multi-month outcome-oriented deployment program where we engage with high-value customers by embedding engineers internally to manage their Brainbase deployment from start to finish. ### Launches Take a look at some of our previous launches to get an idea of what we’re working on: - Brainbase platform: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/brainbase-is-now-ga - Universal Managed Agents API: https://brainbaselabs.com/blog/universal-managed-agents - Universal Agent Protocol (UAP) (open-source): universalagentprotocol.io ### About the role You would be primarily responsible for 1-or-more accounts at a time and see their process from post-sales to deployment and beyond. [View posting at Brainbase](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/brainbaselabs/fb10369f-84a1-481a-872f-bbcfe9f075a0/application) ## About Brainbase Brainbase provides a managed platform for building, deploying, evaluating, and operating AI agents across models and harnesses, with an embedded deployment service. ## Similar jobs [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) ### [Partner Engineer, Payments & Financial Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6688709161c17bb6) Menlo Park, CA · New York, NY · +1 more New · 2d ago $149,000–$210,000 [Composio](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/composio) ### [Forward Deployed Research Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/757aba87cca9f2d0) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago Pay not posted [Namespace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/namespace) ### [Customer-Facing Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/52bdd35fc2690aa8) San Francisco, CA Hybrid 5w ago $150,000–$220,000 [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 [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 - [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 Brainbase and want this page changed or removed? 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