> 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 Auditor Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/51b462929644eda7 Petual posts a FDE role to keep customers running after launch in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. This customer-facing audit practitioner will own end-to-end deployment, adoption, and value realization for enterprise customers using Petual’s AI control-testing platform. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Petual](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/petual) Posted Oct 1, 2026 by Petual · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time This customer-facing audit practitioner will own end-to-end deployment, adoption, and value realization for enterprise customers using Petual’s AI control-testing platform. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F51b462929644eda7&placement=top) - [View posting at Petual](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/petual/9cdb466c-e721-44db-9c4a-53b2ec21bc90/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 Keeps customers running after launch Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Configuration only - **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. 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We automate the most labor-intensive work in internal audit and governance: testing whether a company's financial, operational, and technology controls actually work. Public companies and regulated businesses trust us with the evidence behind their audit and risk decisions. We turn it into reviewable results and auditor-ready workpapers in minutes instead of days. ### The Opportunity We are hiring Audit & Control Specialists to own how customers deploy, adopt, and get value from Petual. It is a customer success role, but we are not hiring customer success generalists. We are hiring auditors. Most of our customers are trying AI for the first time in a function where being wrong has consequences, and they have to defend AI-assisted testing to their own external auditors. Guiding them through that, credibly, as a practitioner, is the heart of the job. ### What You’ll Do - Own deployment for your customers end to end: kickoff, configuration, control prioritization and sequencing, and a success plan with criteria the customer actually agrees to - Get a customer's Risk Control Matrix into Petual and configure controls, test attributes, and samples so the first tests run clean - Season controls to fine-tune attributes and provide any missing business context so results hold up under review, and keep them working as the customer's environment changes - Train and coach internal audit teams on the product, run office hours during peak testing periods, and build a bench of power users inside each account - Advise on the audit work itself, not just the software: how a control should be tested, what evidence is sufficient, and how to talk to external auditors about AI-assisted testing - Triage and resolve customer issues, escalating to engineering with enough detail and reproduction to be actionable - Coordinate setup and integrations with customer IT and SSO, and with GRC and ticketing systems such as AuditBoard, Workiva, ServiceNow, and Jira - Bring patterns back to product and engineering: what customers keep asking for, where the agent struggles, and what would take the most work off the table - Help build the playbooks, deployment checklists, and help-center content this function is currently running without ### You Are - An audit or controls practitioner first. You have tested controls yourself and can talk shop with a SOX manager without translation - Consultative rather than reactive. You bring a point of view to a customer conversation instead of taking orders - Process-minded. You can see how AI changes a customer's workflow and the people in it, and guide them through that change, not just through the software - A clear teacher, comfortable running training and office hours for an audience that is at times skeptical of AI and that has a right to be careful - Comfortable with ambiguity and thin documentation. A lot of this function is being built right now, and you will build part of it - Able to carry many customers and shifting priorities over short periods without dropping things ### What We’re Looking For - A background in Big 4, internal audit, IT audit, risk advisory, or public accounting - Hands-on control testing and workpaper experience - Familiarity with GRC platforms such as AuditBoard, Workiva, or ServiceNow - Experience in a customer-facing role covering implementation, consulting, professional services, or customer success on top of the audit background - Experience helping an organization adopt a new tool or a materially new process - CPA, CIA, CISA, or a similar certification. 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