> 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 Deployment Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7da78175c2d77611 Alterion posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Forward Deployment Engineer leading enterprise production deployments of Alterion, including integrations, policy configuration, troubleshooting, and rollout across customer environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Alterion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alterion) Posted May 28, 2026 by Alterion · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA Hybrid Full-time Forward Deployment Engineer leading enterprise production deployments of Alterion, including integrations, policy configuration, troubleshooting, and rollout across customer environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F7da78175c2d77611&placement=top) - [View posting at Alterion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alterion/634e0a00-dd96-4f5f-ba5f-4fa3aff4c6c9/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 Not posted 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 - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** software engineering with customer-facing technical roles Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ 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? 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 - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: San Francisco primary office; will consider US applicants near major airports - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [EY](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ey) ### [EY-Parthenon - Strategy and Execution - Growth Platforms - Software Engineer - Sr Assoc/Consultant](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/db242f263e15ea06) New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +12 more Hybrid 2mo ago $130,000–$185,000 [OpenClaw Foundation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openclaw-foundation) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bc34865d20736808) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $200,000–$300,000 [ResolveAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/resolveai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fbf9861d61dda44) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted ## The job description from Alterion Posted by Alterion on May 28, 2026 ### About Alterion Alterion has created the world's first runtime control plane for the agentic enterprise - enabling organizations to safely deploy, monitor, and scale autonomous AI agents with full visibility and governance. Our platform unifies semantic observability, dynamic policy enforcement, and distributed monitoring to ensure agent ecosystems remain trustworthy, compliant, and efficient at scale. ### Role Overview This position is for our Forward Deployment Engineering team. You'll be one of the first engineers our customers meet, and part of the team who decides what "Alterion in production" actually means. You will be joining a specialized force of engineers who support our large enterprise customers. Embedded with customer engineering, platform, and security teams; you'll deploy Alterion, help shape the product with customer feedback, and directly contribute code into how the product is built. Not pre-sales. Success is healthy production deployments, integrations that survive real load, and product capabilities that exist because you fought for them. ### What You’ll Work On - Lead end-to-end technical deployments of Alterion at enterprise customers, from initial integration through production rollout. - Build custom integrations and adapters against customers' agent frameworks, model providers, and observability stacks, often as the reference implementation that ships back into the product. - Configure and tune policies, evaluators, and dashboards for each customer's domain, risk profile, and operational model. - Diagnose and resolve issues spanning customer environments, agent behavior, and Alterion's platform, often without a clean reproduction. - Translate field learnings into prototypes, internal tools, and proposed product changes that benefit every future deployment. - Partner closely with product, core engineering, and with founders; to feed sharp, well-scoped requirements into the roadmap. ### Required Qualifications - 2+ years of experience in software engineering, with meaningful time in customer-facing technical roles (forward-deployed, solutions, integrations, or similar). - Mastery of on-premise deployments in secure environments using Kubernetes and Docker - Strong Typescript, Python skills, and experience building production services, integrations, or data pipelines. - Hands-on experience working with LLMs (APIs or open-source models) or agent frameworks in real systems. - Track record of shipping complex technical work in ambiguous, fast-changing environments. - Strong written and verbal communication; comfortable moving between an engineer's terminal and a stakeholder's whiteboard in the same afternoon. ### Preferred Qualifications - Experience deploying AI/ML systems, observability platforms, or developer tooling into enterprise environments. - Background in engineering-focused consulting a strong plus - Familiarity with agent frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, custom orchestrators), MCP, or production GenAI stacks. - Exposure to enterprise security and governance concerns (SSO, RBAC, audit logging, SOC 2, data residency). - Experience as an early engineer at a startup, or in a founding forward-deployed function. ### Location - While this is a Hybrid role, with San Francisco as the primary office, we will consider very well qualified applicants in the United States living near major airports. ### Why Alterion - Build foundational infrastructure for the next generation of AI systems - Work directly with the founders on architecture and long-term technical direction - Own meaningful, high-impact systems from day one - Join a small, senior team that values depth, judgment, and quality - Competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and the opportunity to shape a new category [View posting at Alterion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/alterion/634e0a00-dd96-4f5f-ba5f-4fa3aff4c6c9/application) ## About Alterion Runtime control plane that observes, governs, and enforces policy on enterprise AI agents through semantic observability, drift detection, and runtime threat protection. 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