> 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. # AI Agent Engineer, AI Transformation Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b3b2c7a100abbc6 Psomagen, Inc. posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Rockville, MD, at $70,000–$140,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,868 postings with pay. Leads hands-on, company-wide AI transformation by building and operating production agents integrated with Psomagen’s business systems, including Google Workspace, HubSpot, LIMS, and SAP. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [Psomagen, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/psomagen-inc) First seen Nov 3, 2026 · open on Rippling as of Nov 9, 2026 **$70,000–$140,000** Rockville, MD Leads hands-on, company-wide AI transformation by building and operating production agents integrated with Psomagen’s business systems, including Google Workspace, HubSpot, LIMS, and SAP. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F5b3b2c7a100abbc6&placement=top) - [View posting at Psomagen, Inc.](https://ats.rippling.com/psomagen/jobs/e4601f81-eb98-4e0b-9aa8-f254f2fa9e80) 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 $70K–$140K Below the median Midpoint $105K · median $190K This job $70K to $140K. Senior FDE postings, 1,868 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 (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** professional software development 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 Rockville, MD. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? 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We provide sequencing, single-cell, spatial, proteomics and bioinformatics services to academic, foundation, pharma and clinical customers. We are building AI into how the company operates, so that our teams spend less time on routine work and more time on science and customers. ### About the role We are looking for a hands-on developer with real AI agent experience to lead Psomagen's company-wide AI transformation. You will design, build and operate AI agents on top of the tools our teams use every day: Google Workspace, HubSpot, our in-house LIMS and SAP. You will work directly with the CEO and with every function, identify where agents can remove manual work, ship them quickly, and keep them reliable in production. This is a builder role, not an advisory one. ### What you'll do - Design, develop and operate AI agents using Hermes and comparable agent frameworks, and keep the underlying models swappable as better ones appear - Connect agents to our business systems (Google Workspace, HubSpot, LIMS, SAP) and choose the right way to integrate each one, so that agents can read, draft and act within defined permissions - Work with sales, project management, lab operations, finance, regulatory/quality and IT to find high-value workflows (for example quoting, customer communication, document management, reporting and internal Q&A) and turn them into working agents - Build the supporting infrastructure: knowledge retrieval over company documents, evaluation and testing of agent outputs, logging, monitoring and cost control - Put guardrails in place: role-based access, audit trails and human approval steps for actions that touch customers, finance or regulated records - Collaborate with our LIMS development and bioinformatics teams so that agents fit our existing systems and pipelines - Train employees to use agents effectively, gather feedback and keep improving what is deployed - Track new AI models, tools and practices, and bring in the ones that make a practical difference to the business ### Required Qualifications - Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, software engineering or a related field - 4+ years of professional software development experience, with strong Python skills - Demonstrated experience building and operating LLM-based agents in production or in substantial real-world use (tool calling, multi-step workflows, retrieval, prompt and context design, evaluation) - Current knowledge of frontier AI models and agent tooling, with the ability to explain trade-offs among models, frameworks and cost - Experience connecting software or agents to business systems (for example Google Workspace, HubSpot, an ERP such as SAP, or similar), including authentication and permission design - Strong communication skills, and comfort working with non-technical colleagues to understand their workflows - Awareness of data security and privacy requirements when AI handles customer, financial or health-related data - Legally authorized to work in the U.S. ### Preferred - Experience with Hermes or similar open agent frameworks, and with Google Cloud - Hands-on experience with Google Workspace administration and APIs, Apps Script, and HubSpot - Experience with LIMS, SAP or other laboratory and enterprise operations systems - Domain knowledge of sequencing services or genomics, especially bioinformatics (pipelines, workflow tools such as Airflow, QC and reporting) - Experience in a regulated environment (CLIA/CAP, ISO 9001 or ISO 27001) - Experience with SQL and data pipelines ### Compensation & Benefits - Base salary range: $70,000 to $140,000, depending on experience and qualifications, plus a performance-based bonus - Benefits: [medical/dental/vision, 401(k), PTO, etc.] Psomagen is an equal opportunity employer. ### Pay range Psomagen HQ: 70,000 - 140,000 USD per year [View posting at Psomagen, Inc.](https://ats.rippling.com/psomagen/jobs/e4601f81-eb98-4e0b-9aa8-f254f2fa9e80) ## About Psomagen, Inc. Psomagen provides multiomics laboratory services and data analysis to academic, pharmaceutical, biotech, and clinical researchers. 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