> 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. # Product Engineer, Applied AI Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b955e26ed9776cb Paradigm posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in San Francisco, CA, at $250,000–$400,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Paradigm, a $11B crypto-focused investment firm, seeks a product engineer to build AI agents and developer tools that automate internal workflows and are open-sourced. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Paradigm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/paradigm) Posted Aug 2, 2026 by Paradigm · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$250,000–$400,000** San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Paradigm, a $11B crypto-focused investment firm, seeks a product engineer to build AI agents and developer tools that automate internal workflows and are open-sourced. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F3b955e26ed9776cb&placement=top) - [View posting at Paradigm](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Paradigm/b85b9094-2467-4f49-9a36-ca93da34a3f5/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 $250K–$400K Above the median Midpoint $325K · median $190K This job $250K to $400K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company 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**: Both - **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 - **Pay**: ## More like this [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Software Engineer, GTM Growth Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/894f3a5c14d4cbf9) San Francisco, CA 3mo ago $266,000–$405,000 [Perplexity](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/perplexity) ### [Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Enterprise AI Products)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a107ab6384fd73e5) San Francisco, CA 4mo ago $220,000–$405,000 [NVIDIA](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nvidia) ### [Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c6b417fca88c2035) Santa Clara, CA 11d ago $224,000–$356,500 - [Other jobs at Paradigm (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/paradigm) ## The job description from Paradigm Posted by Paradigm on Aug 2, 2026 ### PRODUCT ENGINEER, APPLIED AI ### The Firm Paradigm is a San Francisco-based investment firm focused on frontier technologies across the globe, with over $11 billion in assets under management. We make investments in companies and protocols at all stages, ranging from early-stage venture financing rounds to growth equity to liquid assets. Paradigm was co-founded in 2018 and is co-led by Matt Huang and Alana Palmedo. We’ve been hard at work investigating the world’s most beautiful technical problems since day one. Our research-driven approach helps us build relationships with founders and entrepreneurs, but it also reflects our broader goal of accelerating the progress of frontier technology. ### The Role Over the last eight years Paradigm has built some of the most used open-source software in the crypto industry, including Reth and Foundry. Earlier this year we published EVMBench with OpenAI, launched Optimization Arena and hosted the Auto Research hackathon. More recently, we open-sourced Centaur, a self-hosted runtime for multiplayer AI agents, which we’ve been using to transform how we work at Paradigm and Tempo. All of these were done part-time by people on Paradigm’s Investing & Research team. This has made us realize that we are people-bound, not idea or impact bound. We need to grow our team to achieve our ambitions. We want to do three things: 1. **Experiment aggressively.** We will push the capabilities of models, harnesses and infrastructure to the limit in service of Paradigm’s broader goals in investing, research, and building. 2. **Build in public.** We will get our hands dirty building useful open-source products. 3. **Invest**. We will leverage our infrastructure - an area we think is still ripe for disruption with AI - to be better investors. By understanding infrastructure gaps experientially, we may incubate companies that will accrue value by addressing these gaps. As we deploy more long-running agentic capabilities, we may get into fundamental research, forecasting, model cost optimizations etc., but that is not our focus yet. We are looking for fearless engineers for this project who understand infrastructure, security, AI models, harnesses, and Slackbots. You will work directly with Georgios, Arjun, Matt Slipper, and the broader Paradigm team, alongside Tempo, and other companies that are themselves operating at the frontier. Your work will directly impact how Paradigm operates every day. If this sounds like you, reach out. ### Responsibilities - Build for the people moving the firm: Embed with I&R, Events, and BizOps to find the work and decisions worth automating and ship agents to take it on. The features you build become how the firm sources, researches, and operates, which means your product sense directly shapes how effective Paradigm is. - Agent surfaces: Build the user-facing experience, primarily the Slack interface, so collaborating with agents feels fast, legible, and trustworthy. - Extensibility and developer experience: Own the systems teams use to extend Centaur without forking it including tools, workflows, skills, and overlays, and make building on top of it feel effortless. - Harness integration: Expand support across the different agent CLIs Centaur can run, keeping one clean execution model underneath. - Open-source stewardship: As an MIT-licensed project, you're the face of it to the community, triaging issues and PRs, writing the docs and examples, and shaping the guides that pull people in. ### Qualifications and Experience - A track record of building world-class products - Experience applying modern AI and software systems to solve complex, ambiguous problems end-to-end - Comfortable navigating everything from foundational models to full-stack product delivery - Pragmatic, product-minded builder who cares about solving real problems rather than overfitting to academic ML goals - Ability to work autonomously and as a collaborator on the team ### Attributes - Exceptional team player - Extreme open-mindedness - Clarity of thought - Clear and concise communication (both written and verbal) - Technical depth; analytical; rigorous - Highly curious; fast learner - Ability to bridge technical and investing mindsets - Interest in frontier technologies and crypto markets [View posting at Paradigm](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Paradigm/b85b9094-2467-4f49-9a36-ca93da34a3f5/application) ## About Paradigm Paradigm invests in frontier technology and conducts technical research, builds open-source software, and incubates new projects. ## Similar jobs [Fluidstack](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fluidstack) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Development & Delivery](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/63088fdb73337a6a) San Francisco, CA On-site 5w ago $224,000–$300,000 [Etched](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/etched) ### [Internal Acceleration, Engineer (Production)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/50520a6cf33f35c2) San Jose, CA On-site 3w ago $150,000–$400,000 [Retell AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/retell-ai) ### [Founders Initiatives, Technical Ex-Founders](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1fef50e3f27a227b) Redwood City, CA On-site 5mo ago $180,000–$300,000 [Rubrik](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rubrik) ### [Senior AI Engineer, Agentic Systems](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/75ba2b037647994d) Palo Alto, CA 3w ago $188,500–$282,700 [Roku](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/roku) ### [Sr. AI Transformation Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/33d5909e360f7f5a) San Jose, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $242,200–$486,000 - [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 for teams inside the company](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=internal-deployment) Hiring at Paradigm and want this page changed or removed? 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