> 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/56f6ec9bb0533d32 Vitol posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Houston, TX with no pay posted. Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with commercial trading teams at Vitol, a global energy and commodities trader. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Vitol](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/vitol) First seen Aug 14, 2026 · open on SmartRecruiters as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Houston, TX On-site Full-time Forward Deployed AI Engineer embedded with commercial trading teams at Vitol, a global energy and commodities trader. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F56f6ec9bb0533d32&placement=top) - [View posting at Vitol](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/Vitol/744000143565138) 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, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** software engineering, AI engineering, machine learning, data science or a related hands-on technical role Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Houston, TX. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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