> 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. # VLM & VFM Forward Deployed Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/55bdc7eeef3cb713 Matroid posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Palo Alto, CA, at $150,000–$300,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. This forward-deployed engineering role builds and deploys vision-centric and vision-language AI systems for industrial customers across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Matroid](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/matroid) First seen Oct 4, 2026 · open on Breezy as of Nov 8, 2026 **$150,000–$300,000** Palo Alto, CA On-site Full-time This forward-deployed engineering role builds and deploys vision-centric and vision-language AI systems for industrial customers across cloud, edge, and hybrid environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F55bdc7eeef3cb713&placement=top) - [View posting at Matroid](https://matroid.breezy.hr/p/d36035e073e0-vlm-vfm-forward-deployed-engineer/apply) 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–$300K Above the median Midpoint $225K · median $190K This job $150K to $300K. 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 **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **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 Palo Alto, 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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