> 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. # Founding Forward Deployment Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/83ef0ecb2369345d Glimpse posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $195,000–$250,000 base, level with the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Founding Forward Deployment Engineer who owns ambiguous customer problems from discovery through production, building resilient integrations across messy ERPs and operational data systems. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Glimpse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/glimpse) Posted Oct 1, 2026 by Glimpse · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$195,000–$250,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time Founding Forward Deployment Engineer who owns ambiguous customer problems from discovery through production, building resilient integrations across messy ERPs and operational data systems. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F83ef0ecb2369345d&placement=top) - [View posting at Glimpse](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glimpse/920c452b-5cb9-4742-920a-c936cc19ee4b/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 $195K–$250K Level with the median Midpoint $223K · median $225K This job $195K to $250K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### 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**: Staff+ - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** software engineering, including customer-facing, solutions, or forward-deployed work Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Forward deployed engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Remote work restrictions**: In-person at NYC headquarters - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Gen Digital Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/gen-digital-inc) ### [Lead, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f9937e8447c5955b) New York, NY Hybrid 2w ago $200,000–$240,000 [Luminai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/luminai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, Team Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f54c517d3cf04a24) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $190,000–$270,000 [Figma](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/figma) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a3cc84cc99542a8d) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Remote 2mo ago $153,000–$376,000 ## The job description from Glimpse Posted by Glimpse on Oct 1, 2026 ### ABOUT GLIMPSE Glimpse is the leading AI platform for CPG brands — automating critical back-office workflows like deductions management, revenue recovery, and cash application. Since launching in April 2024, we've grown from 0 to 200+ customers, raised $52M from investors including a16z, 8VC and Y Combinator. Our AI agents retrieve deduction data, validate charges, automate cash application, and dispute invalid claims — work that would take a full-time employee years to complete. For a $1B CPG brand, a single Glimpse agent reviewed 17,000 deductions in under 24 hours, identifying over $10M in recoverable revenue. We're building the next-generation suite of services for consumer brands and are looking for exceptional people to help us scale. ### ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a Founding Forward Deployment Engineer. You'll sit at the point where customer reality meets our product: messy ERPs, undocumented data, and asks that sound simple until you dig in. You'll turn that ambiguity into working, well-built software. You'll also define what the FDE function looks like as it grows. The integration patterns, validation standards, and ways of working you set up will outlast any single customer. ### WHAT YOU'LL DO: - **Own customer problems end to end.** Take a vague customer ask and drive it to a shipped solution without waiting for a spec. Pick up the work nobody assigned when it matters. - **Find the real problem.** Look past what customers literally request to what will actually make them successful. Turn scattered and conflicting feedback into a clear product direction the team can build against. - **Build data integrations that hold up.** Move and reconcile SKU, inventory, transaction, and invoice data across legacy systems and modern data stacks. Handle undocumented sources, partial data, backfills, and idempotent reprocessing as a matter of course. - **Design patterns that scale.** Build integration approaches that work across customers and ERPs, not one-off scripts. Plan for failure modes, scale, and future change before they force your hand. - **Make correctness a first-class requirement.** Build validation, exception handling, and reconciliation into every workflow, especially where AI touches financial data. Know when an AI step shouldn't be used. Help define how Glimpse proves AI-driven outputs to customers and auditors. - **Set the bar for good code.** Write clean, correct software. Use AI dev tools as a core part of how you work. Reason openly about tradeoffs. - **Make others better.** Unblock teammates, mentor, and build alignment across engineering, product, and customer-facing teams. ### What We’re Looking For: - 5+ years of software engineering, with real time spent in customer-facing, solutions, or forward-deployed work - Hands-on experience with data pipelines and integrations against financial or operational systems (ERPs, accounting, inventory, order management) - Comfort with messy, legacy, and undocumented data sources - A track record of owning ambiguous projects from first conversation to production - Strong instincts for testing, validation, and auditability, plus a healthy skepticism about where AI belongs in a financial workflow - Daily use of AI-assisted development tools - Clear communication in conversation, writing, code, and design docs. You can explain your own code to a peer and a strategy to a skeptical customer. - Low ego and high standards. You give and take feedback well, handle disagreement constructively, and share credit freely. - Experience building with LLMs. ### Technologies: - Python, Node.js, Next.js - MongoDB, PostgreSQL ### NICE TO HAVE - Experience with retail, CPG, supply chain, or finance-ops data - Prior early-stage or founding-team experience - Familiarity with reconciliation or audit requirements for financial data ### WHY JOIN GLIMPSE You'll join a company that has found genuine product-market fit and is scaling fast — with the infrastructure, capital, and team to match. Your work will directly shape how hundreds of CPG brands run their back office. And you'll have real ownership. - Competitive salary with meaningful equity - In-person team in NYC – high ownership, fast feedback loops - Direct impact on a company growing at an exceptional pace - A front-row seat to building the operating system for CPG brands *GLIMPSE is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. GLIMPSE will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.* [View posting at Glimpse](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/glimpse/920c452b-5cb9-4742-920a-c936cc19ee4b/application) ## Similar jobs [Standard Bots](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/standard-bots) ### [Staff Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/63104783ef6d97b3) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 6w ago $215,000–$275,000 [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [Infrastructure Engineer, Customer Delivery](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/520c15eff228e659) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 3w ago $200,000–$250,000 [Obin AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/obin-ai) ### [Principal Solution Architect (Multi-Cloud, Data & Agentic AI)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d9fe8130277fa32a) New York, NY 4mo ago $220,000–$300,000 [Snorkel AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/snorkel-ai) ### [Senior/Staff FDE - Synthetic Data Generation](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1a54d450f761a8e3) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA Hybrid 2mo ago $180,000–$320,000 [Amazon (incl AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/amazon-incl-aws) ### [Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployment Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5b9357990c31169e) East Palo Alto, CA · Boston, MA · +3 more 2w ago $168,100–$261,500 - [Compare staff+ FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/staff) - [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 Glimpse and want this page changed or removed? 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