> 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/478f6651d1af72b7 Tessera Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY and 1 more, at $180,000–$233,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own strategic enterprise AI deployments from pre-sales through production, building and operationalizing solutions for complex, cross-system workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Tessera Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tessera-labs) First seen Apr 22, 2026 · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$180,000–$233,000** New York, NY +2 Remote Full-time Own strategic enterprise AI deployments from pre-sales through production, building and operationalizing solutions for complex, cross-system workflows. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F478f6651d1af72b7&placement=top) - [View posting at Tessera Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs/5fd4b128-180a-4ef0-988e-90139766323e/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 $180K–$233K Above the median Midpoint $207K · median $190K This job $180K to $233K. 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 **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 50%** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** Building software in a high-ownership, customer-facing capacity Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer 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**: New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · San José, California - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Remote work restrictions**: Remote company; customer-site deployment may require up to 2–3 days per week depending on customer and engagement phase. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Up to 50% - **Pay**: ## More like this [Gray Swan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gray-swan) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer – Enterprise](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2f8298f975b489cb) San Francisco, CA Remote 2mo ago $175,000–$220,000 [EY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ey) ### [Cyber - AI Engineer - Manager - Consulting](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5352527da1726f71) New York, NY Remote 7w ago $144,900–$302,100 [Neo.Tax](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/neo-tax) ### [Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b0d8ad66629a1f15) Palo Alto, CA Remote 9d ago $170,000–$190,000 ## The job description from Tessera Labs ### Forward-Deployed Engineer **Office Locations:** East Coast; San Francisco (Hybrid); San José HQ (Hybrid) SoCal, West Coast, Texas, Arizona **Remote work:** Tessera is a remote company. **Travel**: Required for customer engagements, with a wide variance per customer, of up to 50% **Deployment at Customer Site**: Up to 2-3 days a week at customer site depending on customer and phase of engagement **Relocation stipend:** Provided ### About Tessera Labs As a Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Tessera, you will drive how global enterprises deploy AI at scale. You will own our most strategic customers and deployments, building and operationalizing AI automation in a category with no established playbook — a role where outcomes are asymmetric and a single person can be decisive. You are the technical arm of our pre-sales and post-sales motions, embedding in Fortune 500 customers whose expectations were set by a world before AI. The solutions you build and ship will replace and augment mission-critical workflows in production that previously consumed thousands of human hours and added months or years to billion-dollar project timelines. Tessera Forward-Deployed Engineers are technical AI engineers with strong product intuition. You will develop relationships with top decision-makers at the world's most influential companies, and you'll rapidly learn the architectural intricacies sustaining global corporations. You'll own building new systems at the frontier of our platform, and you'll operate with exceptional autonomy and represent Tessera at the highest level. The most important question you'll ask is not *how* to deploy, but *what* to build and deploy: as a frontline engineer, you carry the highest signal of how the product is moving and where it ought to go, so you will be expected to drive and shape our product strategy. **What makes this not a consulting role: we are a product company.** Our business model drives outcomes through a platform, not people. Your ownership will span customer outcomes and product strategy across both short- and long-term horizons: ship the customer outcome in front of you now, and shape the product's capabilities for the long term. As a Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll constantly balance business tradeoffs: win enterprise revenue but protect the core roadmap; drive short-term success while preserving long-term leverage; go deep into customer workflows but don't become a consultant. Ultimately, your responsibility is to drive revenue, holding both horizons in mind at once. You will sit at the intersection of GTM, Product, Engineering, and Center of Excellence, owning engagements from pre-deployment through maturity and beyond, and partnering closely with Deployed Strategists in customer deployments. This role is ideal for engineers and ex-founders who thrive under ambiguity and pair strong technical chops with intuitive people skills. Deployed Engineers are proactive problem-solvers with a keen ability to see around corners. ### Responsibilities - Run deep process discovery with customers — break down complex, ambiguous, cross-system problems into well-defined solutions - Build lightweight prototypes and applications that showcase Tessera's AI agents in real enterprise scenarios - Partner with GTM to frame technical boundaries in sales engagements and produce technical collateral, including Statements of Work - Collaborate with Infra and Engineering to architect implementations that scale across high-volume, business-critical processes - Iterate with customers and cross-functional partners to drive adoption from pilot to full production - Carry field signal back to Product and Engineering, helping shape what we build - Build durable customer relationships and proactively surface new automation opportunities throughout each engagement - Lead training and workshop sessions on-site to upskill customers on the platform ### You May Be a Good Fit If You Have - 2+ years building software in a high-ownership, customer-facing capacity — as a Forward-Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, founding/early engineer at a high-growth startup, or technical founder - Strong hands-on experience with Python and/or JavaScript/TypeScript/Rust - Experience building production-grade AI systems (experience at a frontier AI lab or top AI application company is a strong signal) - A track record of taking ambiguous, high-stakes problems from zero to shipped - Strong communication with both technical and non-technical stakeholders - The ability to operate effectively under ambiguity and fast-moving deployments - An ownership mentality and the willingness to do whatever it takes to get a deployment over the line - A history of learning hard things fast and operating far outside your original lane - Founder experience (a plus) No third party may recruit, solicit candidates, publish job opportunities, use Tessera Labs’ name or branding, or represent that they are acting on behalf of Tessera Labs without prior written authorization. Any such activity conducted without explicit written consent is strictly prohibited. [View posting at Tessera Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tessera-labs/5fd4b128-180a-4ef0-988e-90139766323e/application) ## About Tessera Labs Builds a governed multi-agent AI platform that automates enterprise transformation across ERP, CRM, HCM, finance, data, and code systems. 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