> 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/469a7aea747910fc Hightouch posts a FDE role to integrate and configure the product in US, at $150,000–$225,000 base, level with the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and debugging Hightouch Identity Resolution deployments for large enterprise customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Hightouch](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hightouch) Posted Sep 24, 2026 by Hightouch · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$150,000–$225,000** + equity US Remote Full-time Forward Deployed Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, and debugging Hightouch Identity Resolution deployments for large enterprise customers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F469a7aea747910fc&placement=top) - [View posting at Hightouch](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/6207539004) 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 $150K–$225K Level with the median Midpoint $188K · median $190K This job $150K to $225K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Integrates and configures it Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 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 - **2+ years** Minimum experience in analytics engineering, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or implementation - **4+ years** Maximum stated experience in analytics engineering, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or implementation 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 work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? 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**: US - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Remote work restrictions**: North America - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [6sense](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/6sense) ### [Sr. Data Scientist, Forward-Deployed](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e0a37209c4d5ecc4) US Remote 11d ago $168,349.5–$230,912.6 [Alkira, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alkira-inc) ### [SR Lead Solution Architect FDE (West Coast)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d736ac78cf16edb6) US Remote 2w ago $123,991–$216,482 [Commure](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/commure) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cd14e4328d349710) Mountain View, CA Remote 5mo ago $180,000–$230,000 - [Other jobs at Hightouch (4)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hightouch) ## The job description from Hightouch Posted by Hightouch on Sep 24, 2026 ### About Hightouch Hightouch is an Agentic Marketing Platform powered by the industry-leading Composable CDP. With complete brand context, customer data, and performance history in one place, every marketer finally has the power to build and ship end-to-end campaigns themselves. Teams move faster, stay on brand, and get AI marketing that actually works. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco, Hightouch enables marketing teams to analyze performance, brainstorm ideas, and generate creative at a speed and quality that wasn't previously possible. Named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Customer Data Platforms, Hightouch is trusted by leading enterprises like Domino's, Spotify, Aritzia, Cars.com, Ramp, and PetSmart. At Hightouch, our mission is to help our customers leverage data and AI to grow their businesses. The team is ambitious, impact-driven, efficient — and we believe humility, kindness, and compassion are essential to our success. If you're energized by velocity, obsessed with raising the bar, and want to build alongside people who care deeply about each other and our customers, we'd love to meet you. ### About the Role We're looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to own solution design and implementation for our Identity Resolution (IDR) product. This role is a blend of data analytics and data engineering, and is an opportunity to work directly with data, marketing, and executive teams at household-name companies. You'll spend time working with the customer to learn about their data architecture, reason about how Hightouch can accomplish their goals, set up deployments, and debug issues. This role is hands on and technical. You’ll become intimately familiar with our customers’ data and business goals. This expertise frequently leads to us advising executives at Fortune 500 companies on their long term data strategy. You'll spend time helping customers decide how their global identity spines should be configured, you'll set up implementations for them, and you'll debug inevitable issues with real data. You'll work closely with Sales Engineering on pre-sales deals and with Customer Support Engineering and Technical Account Management on post-sales implementations—serving as the subject matter expert for data engineering and analytics across the customer lifecycle. You'll work with coding agents as a default: the SQL, schema spelunking, and internal tooling in this role gets built with agents - and you’ll help grow our repository of skills and best practices so we all get faster. ### About Hightouch Identity Resolution (IDR) Imagine you're a sprawling enterprise business with 20+ brands. Each brand collects different data elements from each of their customers and joins using different identifiers. Hightouch IDR can look across the customer data stored in each brand and provide a golden source of truth using all the available data, while obeying any regulatory restrictions that prevent data sharing. The product is highly configurable, and so no two customer data architectures are the same. ### What You'll Do ### Solution Architecture & Implementation Consulting - **Work backwards from end goals:** Customers ultimately don't care about IDR itself, but about the use cases that a good identity spine powers. You’ll pair with an architect to work backwards from the customer’s use cases to a set of IDR rules and a data model that enables those use cases - **Assess fit and feasibility**: During pre-sales, understand the customer’s data landscape and maturity, assessing how much work will be needed to get their data ready for IDR. Understand the rules of any current solutions (e.g., Reltio, Amperity, Segment, MDM tools) and identify, flag, and create workarounds for any gaps. ### Technical Support & Debugging - **Debug customer issues end-to-end**: Investigate perceived issues and discrepancies in identity such as missing datapoints and over-merging scenarios. Most debugging involves writing SQL against customer warehouses and reading server logs. - **Explain IDR behavior to customers**: Help customers understand how warehouse-native identity resolution works and detailed nuances of how it processes data incrementally or how to utilize its outcome tables. - **Surface product gaps**: When you see the same issue repeatedly (e.g., no retroactive data removal, insufficient observability into profile changes, inability to reset incremental processing watermarks), flag and advocate for fixes. ### What We're Looking For - **You direct agents, you don't just prompt them**. You'll point them at warehouses with undocumented tables and no reliable dictionary, and you'll be the last judgment before what they build ships to millions of people. You reach for an agent before a blank editor, but you scrutinize every line before it goes out. - **SQL Fluency**: Anyone can generate a thousand lines of SQL now. You're hired because you can read them and find the join that's wrong. Fluent in Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery, with query performance and warehouse cost as things you think about unprompted. - **Systems thinking**: You can reason about how identity graphs behave at scale, understand trade-offs between different architecture choices, and anticipate downstream consequences of design decisions. - **Consultative communication**: You can run a discovery call, ask the right questions to understand requirements, and explain technical trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - **Systematic debugging mindset**: You naturally form hypotheses, test them, and document findings. When you see "missing data," you think through timestamps, model definitions, and PK validity before jumping to conclusions. - **2-4 years in an analytics engineering, solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or implementation role**—ideally at a data infrastructure, CDP, or B2B SaaS company. ### Nice to Have - Experience with identity resolution, MDM, or CDP products (Segment, Amperity, Reltio, LiveRamp) - Familiarity with graph data structures and entity resolution algorithms - Experience with probabilistic matching or ML-based identity systems - Background in data engineering or analytics engineering - Comfort with customer-facing presentations and on-site meetings ### Compensation The salary range for this position is $150,000 - $225,000 USD per year, which is location independent in accordance with our remote-first policy. We also offer meaningful equity. ### E-Verify Statement *Hightouch participates in E-Verify. After you join the team, we'll verify your eligibility to work in the U.S. by submitting information from your Form I-9 to the Social Security Administration and, if needed, the Department of Homeland Security. This process happens post-hire only — we never use E-Verify to pre-screen applicants.* * * *E-Verify Notice* * * *E-Verify Notice (Spanish)* * * *Right to Work Notice* * * *Right to Work Notice (Spanish)* [View posting at Hightouch](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/hightouch/jobs/6207539004) ## About Hightouch Hightouch lets enterprise marketers use warehouse-native data and AI agents to build audiences, personalize campaigns, and run lifecycle and advertising workflows without copying customer data. 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