> 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. # Senior Software Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/72a07d97973bb794 Accordion posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Boston, MA and 5 more, at $110,000–$200,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Senior Software Engineer in Accordion’s AI Lab, building and shipping production multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and observability for private-equity portfolio company engagements. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Accordion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accordion) Posted Sep 10, 2026 by Accordion · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 **$110,000–$200,000** + equity Boston, MA +5 Hybrid, 2 days a week in office Senior Software Engineer in Accordion’s AI Lab, building and shipping production multi-agent systems, RAG pipelines, evaluation frameworks, and observability for private-equity portfolio company engagements. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F72a07d97973bb794&placement=top) - [View posting at Accordion](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/accordion/jobs/8192437) 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 $110K–$200K Below the median Midpoint $155K · median $190K This job $110K to $200K. 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 Visa - **No visa sponsorship** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Boston, MA · Charlotte, NC · +4 more. Could you work in one of these? The posting says no visa sponsorship. Do you need one? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Boston, MA · Charlotte, NC · Chicago, IL · Dallas, TX · New York, NY · San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid, 2 days a week in office - **Remote work restrictions**: Based in a US office location; remote work permitted 2 days per week, with candidates expected to be local to the desired office. - **Visa sponsorship**: Not available - **Pay**: ## More like this [Blue Orange Digital](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blue-orange-digital) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/76e69c282a7ac2d3) New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +8 more 4mo ago $150,000–$185,000 [Chatham Financial](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chatham-financial) ### [Senior Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ab690f3bd67052fd) New York, NY · Kennett Square, PA 2mo ago $100,000–$140,000 [Endeavor](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/endeavor) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d9b832dd64d37c26) Chicago, IL On-site New · 5d ago $150,000–$180,000 - [Other jobs at Accordion (3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accordion) ## The job description from Accordion Posted by Accordion on Sep 10, 2026 ### Company Overview We are the better way to work in finance. As private equity’s value creation partner, we sit at the heart of PE—where sponsors and CFOs meet. Through financial consulting rooted in data, technology, and AI, we help clients drive value—supporting the office of the CFO to drive end-to-end value creation. If you crave challenging work and are looking to grow, come solve complex issues alongside 1,600+ finance & technology experts in a supportive, collaborative environment. Backed by premier private equity firms and headquartered in New York with 11 offices around the globe, we are a high-growth, entrepreneurial firm looking for people who want to be part of building something great. Come make your mark. ### Data & Analytics Accordion's Data & Analytics (D&A) team offers cutting-edge, intelligent solutions to a global clientele, leveraging a blend of domain knowledge, sophisticated technology tools, and deep analytics capabilities to tackle complex business challenges. We partner with Private Equity clients and their Portfolio Companies across diverse sectors, including Retail, CPG, Healthcare, Media & Entertainment, Technology, and Logistics. This role can be based in any of our US office locations and is a hybrid role with the flexibility to work remotely 2 days a week. Ideal candidates should be local to the desired location. This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship. ### Accordion Intelligence Lab The AI Lab is composed of leading software and AI engineers, designing agentic-AI solutions ahead of the market. Our group builds and operationalizes the AI systems that power Accordion’s consulting capabilities, from agentic architectures and RAG pipelines to evaluation frameworks and production observability. New hires join AI-augmented delivery pods, working alongside AI engineering, data, and product teammates from day one, and initially integrate with the broader Lab team before moving into a specialized pod. ### About the Role This posting covers two levels: Associate Software Engineer and Senior Software Engineer. We’re looking for engineers who want to build real agentic systems, not tinker with demos. You’ll work under the direction of Staff-level engineers on live client engagements — writing the agent logic, the RAG pipeline, the eval harness — and growing steadily toward owning a workstream yourself. This is a highly technical, hands-on role in a high-velocity, client-facing environment: sprints are short, client expectations are high, and the work is real from week one. You’ll be expected to ship fast, learn quickly, and raise your own bar on what AI-assisted delivery looks like. If you’ve spent time in large enterprise engineering organizations where velocity is constrained by process, this will feel different. The people who thrive here are those who find the pace energizing, not exhausting, and are comfortable being early in their AI-native career while still moving at a fast clip. They treat AI tools as something to get genuinely good at using, communicate clearly with non-technical stakeholders, and course-correct quickly when something isn’t working. ### What You’ll Do 1. Build and ship components of multi-agent systems and RAG pipelines for PE-backed portfolio company engagements, under the guidance of more senior engineers 2. Contribute to prompt engineering, tool design, and deployment for production AI systems 3. Write and run evals as part of eval-driven development — define success criteria before you build, not after 4. Help translate client requirements into technical tasks, with support from your pod on the ambiguous parts 5. Build observability into the systems you ship so quality is measurable, not assumed 6. At the Senior level: independently own a workstream (an agentic pipeline, a RAG system, or an eval framework) end-to-end, and present your own architecture decisions to internal and client stakeholders ### Success in the First 6 Months 1. Associate: productive on an active client engagement within 30 days; shipping real code and learning the client’s data landscape quickly; contributing meaningfully to at least one production system by month 6 2. Senior: shipped at least one end-to-end agentic solution from scoping through production; owns a workstream independently; has built enough credibility with the pod and the client to be trusted with the next hard problem without heavy hand-holding ### What You’ll Bring 1. Solid Python and/or TypeScript/React fundamentals — you write clean code and can reason about what a framework is doing underneath it 2. Some hands-on exposure to LLM application development: RAG, tool use, prompt engineering, or agent orchestration (production experience preferred; strong coursework/side-project depth considered for Associate level) 3. Genuine use of AI coding tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or similar) in your own workflow — you should be able to talk concretely about where they speed you up 4. Comfort with ambiguity and a fast pace — you won’t always get a clean spec, and that’s the job 5. Willingness and ability to learn quickly in a client-facing, consulting-style environment ### Nice to Have 1. Any finance/PE domain exposure — FP&A, GL data, ERP systems (NetSuite, SAP) 2. Familiarity with LangChain/LangGraph, AutoGen, DSPy, or similar orchestration frameworks 3. Public work you can point to: a GitHub repo, a side project, a blog post — anything that shows how you think about building 4. Any prior internship, co-op, or junior role with client- or user-facing exposure The annual salary for this role ranges from: $110,000 to $200,000 USD + bonus + benefits, spanning both levels in this posting. Actual compensation packages are determined by evaluating a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to level, geographic location, skill set, years and depth of experience, education, certifications, cost of labor and internal equity. **THIS POSTING IS FOR A CURRENT VACANCY AND THE EMPLOYER INTENDS TO FILL THIS POSITION BY DECEMBER 9, 2026.** Accordion is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law. Please note that as per Accordion policy, we do not accept unsolicited resumes from third-party recruiters unless such recruiters are engaged to provide candidates for a specified opening and in alignment with our inclusive diversity values. Any employment agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume does so with the understanding that Accordion will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person or entity. #LI-NN1 [View posting at Accordion](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/accordion/jobs/8192437) ## Similar jobs [PwC (US)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pwc-us) ### [Senior Engineer, Google Cloud](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/185ac0e4c847ab6b) Chicago, IL · Raleigh, NC · +62 more New · 5d ago $77,000–$202,000 [First Resonance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/first-resonance) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer (New England Area)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/473c461a80ccbf80) Providence, RI · Boston, MA · +1 more Hybrid 2mo ago $145,000–$175,000 [Applied Intuition](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-intuition) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - New Grad (2027)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0fae357470701c01) Sunnyvale, CA On-site 2mo ago $130,000–$158,000 [Palantir](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/palantir) ### [Forward Deployed Software Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cb748842cab6f816) Chicago, IL Hybrid 4mo ago $135,000–$200,000 [Bain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bain) ### [Lead, Engineering Excellence](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/22a12cc51fef0229) Atlanta, GA · Austin, TX · +8 more Hybrid 2mo ago $179,875–$203,925 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in New York metro](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=nyc-metro) - [Similar jobs that build what the customer runs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=builds-for-customers) Hiring at Accordion and want this page changed or removed? 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