> 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 (BioPharma/Lifescience) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4bebf701823663ea Condor Software posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. A customer-embedded engineer who turns biopharma clinical and financial workflow problems into production capabilities in Condor’s core platform. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Condor Software](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/condor-software) Posted Aug 24, 2026 by Condor Software · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA Hybrid Full-time A customer-embedded engineer who turns biopharma clinical and financial workflow problems into production capabilities in Condor’s core platform. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F4bebf701823663ea&placement=top) - [View posting at Condor Software](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/condor-software/0de72ab5-1c2b-45e6-95d7-977ccce308eb/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 **Mostly building** 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 ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** software engineering experience (minimum) - **10+ years** software engineering experience (maximum) Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? 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**: Hybrid - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Ciridae](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ciridae) ### [Full Stack Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/30c386db283fe27c) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [AiPrise](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/aiprise) ### [Bilingual Forward Deployed Engineer (English/Spanish)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ea1eef0aa28380f) San Jose, CA On-site 1mo ago $115,000–$130,000 [Netic](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/netic) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) - New Grad - 2026-2027](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8f5951871c970317) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $138,000–$160,000 ## The job description from Condor Software Posted by Condor Software on Aug 24, 2026 ### About Condor Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are invested to discover and develop new therapies, yet the financial infrastructure behind that work has not kept pace. Clinical operations and finance live in disconnected worlds, forcing teams to make high-stakes decisions using fragmented tools and static data. Condor exists to change that. We are a system of action, building the financial intelligence layer that will power the next era of clinical development. Condor connects clinical operations, vendor activity, and financial signals into a single, real-time intelligence layer, giving R&D and finance leaders true command over how their organizations operate. Our platform is pharma-native, AI-driven infrastructure — built around an operation layer of guarded, audited business logic, a bitemporal source of truth, and AI agents that reason over real clinical and financial data. We are a high-growth Series A company backed by Insight Partners, Felicis, and 645 Ventures, growing rapidly with Top 200 biopharma companies. ### About Condor Every year, hundreds of billions of dollars are invested to discover and develop new therapies, yet the financial infrastructure behind that work has not kept pace. Clinical operations and finance live in disconnected worlds, forcing teams to make high-stakes decisions using fragmented tools and static data. Condor exists to change that. We are a system of action, building the financial intelligence layer that will power the next era of clinical development. Condor connects clinical operations, vendor activity, and financial signals into a single, real-time intelligence layer, giving R&D and finance leaders true command over how their organizations operate. Our platform is pharma-native, AI-driven infrastructure — built around an operation layer of guarded, audited business logic, a bitemporal source of truth, and AI agents that reason over real clinical and financial data. We are a high-growth Series A company backed by Insight Partners, Felicis, and 645 Ventures, growing rapidly with Top 200 biopharma companies. ### About the Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you sit at the intersection of engineering, product, and customer delivery. Embedded directly with biopharma customers, you will learn their clinical and financial workflows firsthand to design and deploy high-impact, AI-powered solutions. This is an active engineering role, not solutions consulting. When you spot a problem in the field, you solve it by **opening PRs against our core codebase**—building production-grade capability rather than throwaway prototypes. Working alongside product and customer leadership, you are the technical authority in the room, driving rapid execution with zero translation layer. Your insights from field deployments directly feed back into our core platform architecture and product roadmap. It is a highly autonomous, hands-on opportunity for an engineer who thrives in high-stakes environments and wants to shape the future of biopharma infrastructure. ### What You’ll Do - Embed directly with biopharma customers to understand their workflows, constraints, and definition of success across both finance (accruals, forecasting, reconciliation) and clinical operations (vendor activity, study execution, operational data) - Uncover and validate new use cases in the field to the granular details, including clinical operations problems adjacent to finance and clinical operations and turn the most valuable ones into product - Design, build, and deploy AI-driven solutions to real operational problems — fast, in days rather than quarters - Turn ambiguous customer requirements into technical architecture and ship them into Condor’s core platform, not one-off prototypes - Build and maintain production systems: Django services and APIs, agent workflows on AWS Bedrock, data integrations, monitoring, and feedback loops - Build customer-facing systems end-to-end—from UI to backend to data to AI—to surface a capability fully. - Own deployments end-to-end, from initial scoping through launch and iteration - Operate in high-stakes environments where reliability, speed, accuracy and judgment matter — this is financial data customers close their books on - Identify patterns across deployments and codify field work back into core product and platform capability - Partner closely with Product and Engineering to influence roadmap, abstractions, and long-term system design - This role involves occasional travel to customer locations on an as-needed basis. ### What We’re Looking For - **Has done this before. **You’ve held a forward-deployed, founding-engineer, or similar zero-to-one customer-facing role, and turned messy real-world requirements into shipped software. - **4–10 years of software engineering experience **with real depth — you’ve built and owned end-to-end production systems, not just features inside a large existing one. - **Builds end-to-end systems quickly with AI. **You use LLMs and agent frameworks (function calling / tool use, RAG, evals) to go from problem to working system fast, and you own their reliability, evaluation, and cost. - **Translates customer needs into core products. **A track record of taking a customer problem and implementing the solution directly in a shared core codebase. - **Deep software engineering fundamentals. **Strong proficiency in Python and Django; solid data modeling and SQL on PostgreSQL; comfort building on AWS (Bedrock, ECS/Fargate, Lambda). React for customer-facing UI is a plus. - **Strong communicator. **At ease with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, and credible in front of a customer. - **High ownership. **Able to operate independently in a fast-changing, ambiguous environment and drive a deployment to completion. ### Nice to Have - Background from companies known for the FDE or zero-to-one model — Palantir, Anduril, Cursor, Cognition, or similar - Experience with vector search and retrieval (Pinecone, pgvector) and graph/relationship stores (Neo4j) - Exposure to clinical operations, biopharma R&D, financial systems, or other regulated, high-correctness data domains — or experience integrating with clinical and financial systems (ERP, CTMS, EDC, procurement, vendor feeds) - Experience building evaluation and observability for LLM applications ### What We Offer - Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation - 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance - 401(k) with a 3% company match that vests immediately - Unlimited PTO *Condor is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.* ### What We Offer - Competitive compensation and meaningful equity participation - 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, and life insurance - 401(k) with a 3% company match that vests immediately - Unlimited PTO *Condor is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.* [View posting at Condor Software](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/condor-software/0de72ab5-1c2b-45e6-95d7-977ccce308eb/application) ## About Condor Software AI-powered platform that connects biopharma clinical, operational, and financial data to forecast costs and automate R&D finance workflows. 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