> 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 (SF) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7c46a86c31f82b14 Doppel posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $120,000–$220,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Brings Doppel’s platform into production for large enterprise customers by building integrations, applications, workflows, and AI-powered features across complex security environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Doppel](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/doppel) Posted Jul 7, 2026 by Doppel · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$120,000–$220,000** San Francisco, CA Full-time Brings Doppel’s platform into production for large enterprise customers by building integrations, applications, workflows, and AI-powered features across complex security environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F7c46a86c31f82b14&placement=top) - [View posting at Doppel](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Doppel/ce74284a-bfb8-4c3f-a2e6-2cdac32cb5f7/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 $120K–$220K Below the median Midpoint $170K · median $190K This job $120K to $220K. 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 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **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 San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: San Francisco, CA - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Blue Matter](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blue-matter) ### [AI Engineer / Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b3fb597face2eac) South San Francisco, CA 2w ago $120,000–$170,000 [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Software Engineering, AI Systems (SMTS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/270724389386ab3d) San Francisco, CA · Bellevue, WA · +1 more 1mo ago $148,500–$246,000 [Bland AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bland-ai) ### [Agent Solutions Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2835d19d46c9e04d) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $120,000–$200,000 - [Other jobs at Doppel (4)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/doppel) ## The job description from Doppel Posted by Doppel on Jul 7, 2026 ### Why Join Doppel Doppel is building the future of social engineering defense. Our AI-native platform uses agentic AI to protect executives, employees, customers, and brands from phishing, impersonation, fraud, and other AI-powered threats across digital channels. We help some of the world’s most recognized brands detect and dismantle attacker infrastructure while strengthening employee resilience through threat-informed training and simulation. By unifying Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management and Email Security, Doppel connects threats into a real-time intelligence graph to power faster disruption, smarter defense, and modern security awareness at scale. Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, and trusted by leading enterprises, Doppel is a rapidly growing Series C startup building the future of social engineering defense. Our team combines deep cybersecurity expertise, operational rigor, and startup velocity to solve some of the internet’s most urgent trust and safety challenges. ### What We're Building We're building the AI-native social engineering defense platform. This means we're designing scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, apps, dark web forums, etc., and leverage AI agents to identify and neutralize digital threats. ### What You'll Do Doppel's Forward Deployed Engineering team plays a critical role in bringing our largest, multimillion-dollar enterprise customers into production. You'll tackle complex technical challenges, integrating Doppel into enterprise security environments and making our products critical to customer operations. You'll work directly with customers, GTM, Product, and Engineering to turn ambiguous, open-ended problems into production-ready solutions. With the pace and autonomy of a startup, you'll scope, build, and ship solutions end-to-end, solve real customer problems, and turn what you learn in the field into scalable product capabilities. - **Solve problems that matter to customers.** Work directly with enterprise customers to understand their workflows, uncover unmet needs, and translate complex challenges into solutions that deliver meaningful value. - **Build from 0→1.** Take ideas from early discovery through prototyping, development, and production, making technical decisions and iterating quickly based on real customer feedback. - **Build beyond the immediate customer need.** Identify recurring patterns across deployments, design reusable solutions, and turn customer-specific challenges into capabilities that strengthen the broader Doppel platform. - **Shape what we build next.** Partner closely with Product and core Engineering to bring customer insights into technical discussions, challenge assumptions, and contribute to product priorities and decisions. - **Bring Doppel into complex enterprise environments.** Build applications, workflows, APIs, and integrations across identity providers, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and enterprise security systems. - **Make the customer experience better.** Develop features, automation, and AI-powered workflows that simplify onboarding, accelerate adoption, and improve how customers interact with Doppel. - **Own solutions through production.** Work across Engineering, Product, and GTM to navigate ambiguity, solve technical blockers, and ensure what you build delivers lasting value. ### What We're Looking For - **Strong software engineering foundation.** Experience building and shipping production software, with the ability to design systems, evaluate technical tradeoffs, and independently deliver end-to-end solutions. Python experience preferred. - **Experience building from 0→1.** Track record of taking ambiguous problems from initial concept through development and launch, with the ability to iterate quickly based on feedback and real-world usage. - **Strong customer intuition.** Ability to understand user needs, ask thoughtful questions, identify underlying problems, and translate complex requirements into practical, effective solutions. - **Product and systems thinking.** Ability to recognize patterns across customer needs, design reusable abstractions, and balance immediate customer requirements with long-term scalability. - **Versatility across the stack.** Comfort building customer-facing applications, backend services, APIs, and integrations. Experience with enterprise authentication, security platforms, or SIEM/SOAR systems is a plus. - **Entrepreneurial mindset and ownership.** Resourcefulness, curiosity, and comfort navigating ambiguity, with the initiative to identify opportunities and drive solutions forward independently. - **Strong communication and collaboration.** Ability to work directly with customers, communicate technical tradeoffs, and collaborate effectively across Engineering, Product, and GTM. - **AI-native engineering mindset.** Interest in leveraging AI to accelerate development and solve complex problems. Experience with LLMs, agents, or AI-powered workflows is a plus. ### What We Offer 🚀 A mission-driven culture with low ego, high ownership, deep customer obsession, and exceptional talent density 🍽️ Free lunch and dinner in the office 🌴 Flexible PTO ✈️ Quarterly team offsites ### Join Doppel Doppel is the first platform built to dismantle digital deception at scale. We scan over 150 billion entities daily and deploy continuously adaptive AI SOC agents, paired with expert human analysts, to uncover and disrupt the infrastructure behind phishing, impersonation, and online fraud before attacks can spread. Our Threat Grid turns every customer signal into shared intelligence, making each disruption smarter, faster, and more effective. We’re not just another cybersecurity company. We’re defining the future of social engineering defense, where trust is protected, and deception becomes unprofitable. Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, Doppel is growing fast. If you’re driven to solve real-world problems with bold technology, we’d love to meet you. 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