> 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/575779887c729d4d Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $200,000–$400,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own customer-specific integrations and AI agent evaluations from scoping through results, including determining whether agents meet the AIUC-1 standard. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-aiuc) Posted Aug 28, 2026 by Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$200,000–$400,000** San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Own customer-specific integrations and AI agent evaluations from scoping through results, including determining whether agents meet the AIUC-1 standard. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F575779887c729d4d&placement=top) - [View posting at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/84ae5a63-7a10-45ae-940f-3733ffaefd49/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 $200K–$400K Above the median Midpoint $300K · median $190K This job $200K to $400K. 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 (not covered) 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 ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** Professional experience - **7+ years** Professional experience Visa - **Sponsors visas** ### 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 San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Visa sponsorship**: Available - **Pay**: ## More like this [Periodic Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/periodic-labs) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Physics & Simulation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f51097ef995e7154) Menlo Park, CA On-site 5mo ago $250,000–$350,000 [SF Tensor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sf-tensor) ### [Member of Technical Staff, Post-Training & Applied Research](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/790e35ccae399fab) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $275,000–$315,000 [Sieve](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sieve) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Physical AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c01d9e4502e1f4bf) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $150,000–$350,000 - [Other jobs at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/artificial-intelligence-underwriting-company-aiuc) ## The job description from Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) Posted by Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) on Aug 28, 2026 ### About AIUC AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI. Our mission is to Underwrite superintelligence. We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI. AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us. ### The Role Every AI company that comes to us wants the same thing: proof their agent is safe enough to sell to an enterprise. Getting there means running thousands of evaluations against their live system. We've now certified the category leaders in every major AI vertical: ElevenLabs (voice), Intercom (customer service), UiPath (workflow automation), Lovable (coding), and more we'll announce soon. No two of those systems look alike: each has its own authentication, its own interface, its own definition of what a failure even looks like. Before we can test any of it, someone has to sit with that customer, understand how their agent actually works, and get it wired into our evaluation system. We're hiring an **engineer to own that work end to end**. You'll have your own set of customers within your first weeks, paired with a commercial counterpart on each one. ### In this role, you will - Own the path from signed customer to delivered results - scoping what to test, working through their authentication and interfaces, and getting their agent running in our system - Build the one-off version when a customer doesn't fit the product yet, and make it work anyway - Deliver results directly to the customer and be the person they trust with the technical detail - Make the call on whether a customer meets the AIUC-1 standard - Work across the widest surface of any role here: our Delivery team, our core engineers, sales, the Standards team (shaping what goes into AIUC-1), and your customer's own engineering team - Turn what you learn in the field into the product *That last one is why the role exists. We're building toward a product that runs evaluations end to end without an engineer in the loop. This is a high-agency role: you'll shape what we build next as much as you'll deliver what we've built.* *If you're planning to start a company one day, this is a front row seat. You'll work directly with our founders, with founders at the companies we certify, and alongside a team full of ex-founders.* ### What we're looking for The job in practice looks like reading someone's API docs, chasing credentials, building integrations into customers' systems and agents. Then evaluating whether those agents behave, and owning the failure modes the evals surface. The person who thrives here has done this work before. What drives them is trust and safety. To be successful, we think you have: - 3-7 years of experience, likely as an early engineer at a startup where you ended up owning customers, or in an integration, solutions, or forward deployed role selling technical products to technical buyers. (Impact matters more than years.) - Enough software engineering to build and debug an integration yourself, and the judgment to know when the scrappy version is the right answer - Comfort owning a customer relationship directly – scoping the work, setting expectations, and delivering bad news early - Customer obsession: their problem is your problem, and you see it through - The discipline to turn what you see in the field into something reusable rather than solving the same problem twice ### Nice to have - Experience founding or co-founding a company - Experience with AI evaluations or red-teaming - Executive presence with senior stakeholders ### Our Values We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers. - Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard. - Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace. - Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work. - Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions. Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours, apply now. ### Compensation & Perks - Competitive annual salary - Equity (significant part of total compensation) - Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents - Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed - Daily lunch, dinner & snacks [View posting at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aiuc/84ae5a63-7a10-45ae-940f-3733ffaefd49/application) ## Similar jobs [ChipAgents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chipagents) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2ff7b7b2f9e8f946) San Jose, CA On-site 10d ago $180,000–$300,000 [Analog Devices](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/analog-devices) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/45fca47921975204) San Jose, CA · Boston, MA 2mo ago $230,000–$316,250 [Handshake (AI training)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/handshake-ai-training) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Enterprise AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c364266bec560fc4) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 7w ago $220,000–$300,000 [Meticulous](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meticulous) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, San Francisco](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5cca5c0200ba0098) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $200,000–$400,000 [Slash](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/slash) ### [Software Engineer, Growth](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6af1c7119a35d995) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $200,000–$250,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) - [Similar jobs that build what the customer runs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=builds-for-customers) Hiring at Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC) and want this page changed or removed? 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