> 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, Data Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/87a14bba45a0bd5d First Resonance posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Los Angeles, CA, at $150,000–$190,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,868 postings with pay. Hands-on, customer-facing data engineering role responsible for taking ambiguous manufacturing-data problems from discovery through production deployment and operational handoff. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [First Resonance](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/first-resonance) Posted Oct 1, 2026 by First Resonance · open on Ashby as of Nov 9, 2026 **$150,000–$190,000** + equity Los Angeles, CA On-site Full-time Hands-on, customer-facing data engineering role responsible for taking ambiguous manufacturing-data problems from discovery through production deployment and operational handoff. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F87a14bba45a0bd5d&placement=top) - [View posting at First Resonance](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/first-resonance/51fee246-6079-4483-903a-a1bb9ece190f/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 $150K–$190K Below the median Midpoint $170K · median $190K This job $150K to $190K. Senior FDE postings, 1,868 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 - **5+ years** Data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or another role building production data systems Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Los Angeles, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Sift](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sift) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ad72b237f4fa55ef) San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA Hybrid 3mo ago $125,000–$175,000 [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 [Meta](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/meta) ### [Business Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/61f630e50014b285) Los Angeles, CA · Seattle, WA · +1 more 4w ago $149,000–$210,000 - [Other jobs at First Resonance (6)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/first-resonance) ## The job description from First Resonance Posted by First Resonance on Oct 1, 2026 ### Why this role matters First Resonance builds the ION Factory OS — the operating system powering next-generation manufacturing for companies building rockets, satellites, eVTOLs, clean energy systems, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Our customers generate critical data across ION, ERP, PLM, quality, finance, procurement, equipment, and homegrown systems. That data only creates value when it is trustworthy, connected, and available at the moment a factory team needs to make a decision. We are hiring a **Forward Deployed Engineer, Data** to turn fragmented manufacturing data into durable, production-grade data products and pipelines. This is a hands-on, customer-facing engineering role. You will work directly with customer data, manufacturing, and IT teams and partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering, Product, and Engineering. You will move from an ambiguous operational question to a deployed solution — designing the architecture, writing production code, validating the data, launching with users, and keeping it reliable. ### What you’ll own - **Deliver customer data solutions end to end:** Lead discovery, requirements, architecture, implementation, testing, go-live, documentation, and operational handoff for high-value customer use cases. - **Build reliable data pipelines:** Ingest, transform, reconcile, and serve data across ION and customer systems using APIs, webhooks, event streams, batch workflows, and modern data tooling. - **Model complex manufacturing operations:** Translate parts, bills of materials, work orders, inventory, quality, labor, costs, and engineering changes into clear and maintainable data models. - **Make data trustworthy:** Establish validation, observability, lineage, access controls, retry and backfill patterns, and incident-response practices so customers can depend on production data. - **Turn deployments into product leverage:** Convert successful customer work into reusable pipelines, semantic models, reference architectures, test harnesses, runbooks, and platform improvements. - **Lead through ambiguity:** Set expectations with technical and nontechnical stakeholders, surface risks early, make practical tradeoffs, and remain accountable for the customer outcome. ### What we’re looking for - 5+ years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, analytics engineering, or another role building production data systems. - Strong programming ability in Python and fluency with SQL, data modeling, and software-engineering practices such as testing, version control, and code review. - Experience building and operating data pipelines across APIs, transactional databases, event streams, object storage, and cloud data platforms. - Sound judgment around distributed-system and data-quality failure modes, including idempotency, ordering, schema evolution, reconciliation, observability, and access control. - Ability to work directly with customers, turn ambiguous operational problems into clear technical plans, and communicate tradeoffs to both engineers and business leaders. If you do four of these five things well, we encourage you to apply. We care more about evidence of ownership, learning, and shipped outcomes than a perfect keyword match. ### Nice to have - Experience with manufacturing, supply-chain, ERP, PLM, MES, quality, or industrial data. - Experience with AWS and modern data technologies such as dbt, Airflow or Dagster, Kafka or similar event systems, and cloud warehouses or lakehouses. - Experience designing metrics layers, analytical data products, or operational reporting used by frontline teams. - Familiarity with enterprise security, regulated environments, air-gapped networks, or customer-managed infrastructure. - Experience in a customer-facing technical role such as forward deployed engineering, solutions architecture, technical consulting, or implementation engineering. ### Benefits & Perks - Health Insurance; medical, vision, dental, & life insurance. - Paid Parental Leave. - Employee Stock Option Plan. - Team outings, group lunches, open office, happy hours. - Paid holidays, sick days. - Flexible Friday and PTO. - 401K. *First Resonance is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce.* *First Resonance participates in E-Verify. As part of our onboarding process, a new hire's Form I-9 information will be shared with the federal government to confirm they are authorized to work in the U.S.* *Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location.* *First Resonance accelerates the speed and reliability of hardware development for companies manufacturing the next generation of hardware products. This includes space exploration, electric airplanes, autonomous vehicles, nuclear reactors, robotics, and more. We are a group of software, hardware, and manufacturing engineers that are bringing the best of modern UX and data science to an industry that has been overly rigid in its innovation. We are removing the barriers preventing radical advancement by providing tools to manufacturing engineers and operators to move information more freely, collaborate with their teams more easily, and use the power of data to predict problems and provide insights that result in better hardware quality and delivery.* [View posting at First Resonance](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/first-resonance/51fee246-6079-4483-903a-a1bb9ece190f/application) ## Similar jobs [SalesPatriot](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salespatriot) ### [Lead Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e269756eb6cb8219) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +2 more On-site 4w ago $150,000–$220,000 [Sia](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sia) ### [Manager, Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/183bfa468750c967) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY · +8 more Hybrid 2w ago $150,000–$180,000 [Axle Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/axle-health) ### [Senior Software Engineer, Integrations](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/b6b7f3cfed515e2b) Santa Monica, CA On-site 9d ago $170,000–$200,000 [Planhat](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/planhat) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer | Americas](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/760df506cf3445ee) Pacific Palisades, CA On-site 4mo ago $170,000–$250,000 · OTE [Anduril](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/anduril) ### [Software Engineer, Strategic Defense (Active Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3da5634c483ab359) Costa Mesa, CA · Reston, VA · +2 more 6w ago $167,000–$222,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in Los Angeles](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=greater-la) - [Similar jobs that build what the customer runs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=builds-for-customers) Hiring at First Resonance and want this page changed or removed? 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