> 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 Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8a9b7cbc95de504c Tenex Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $224,000–$394,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. Own several client-facing AI projects at a time, from identifying business opportunities and choosing the technical approach to building and improving production systems. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Tenex Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tenex-labs) Posted Jun 4, 2026 by Tenex Labs · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 **$224,000–$394,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time Own several client-facing AI projects at a time, from identifying business opportunities and choosing the technical approach to building and improving production systems. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8a9b7cbc95de504c&placement=top) - [View posting at Tenex Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tenexlabs/2a359a2a-d5ed-48e8-96b8-b93826110ee9/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 $224K–$394K Above the median Midpoint $309K · median $190K This job $224K to $394K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 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 ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY. 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**: New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Venn](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/venn) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5f5b26d34cf0694b) New York, NY 7w ago $200,000–$400,000 [Transformworks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/transformworks) ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/01bf224091b6acdf) New York, NY Hybrid 2mo ago $165,000–$350,000 [Titan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96694cce5cd5c7c7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 3w ago $180,000–$480,000 - [Other jobs at Tenex Labs (3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tenex-labs) ## The job description from Tenex Labs Posted by Tenex Labs on Jun 4, 2026 Tenex builds frontier AI that works in the real world. Our engineers sit with C-suite leaders, find where AI adds the most value, and ship bleeding-edge AI to production. We were founded in New York City in 2025. We are currently 70 people and will double by the end of the year. We build for Fortune 500 companies across media, healthcare, retail, finance, and sports. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Cursor are partners where we turn technology into reliable systems businesses use every day. ### The Role You’ll own client projects end to end: find where AI adds real value, decide the technical plan, build the whole system, and keep improving it in production. You’ll lead a few projects at a time in a pod run by an engineering manager. We look for engineers who: - Have shipped and supported production software. - Have built reliable systems with LLMs. - Can explain decisions to a CEO or an engineer. You will learn to structure work for agents, engineer context, evaluate outputs, and decide where people stay in control. Every project leaves behind agent systems, evals, and tools that make the next one faster. The engineers we put in front of clients are the product, so hiring is the most important decision we make each week. Our engineers have worked at Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft, AWS, DoorDash, Coinbase, and Oracle, and many have founded companies. ### Our Work - **Sales intelligence for a sports and entertainment company.** Models score 4.1M fans every night, and an LLM explains each score for sales reps. Top-ranked fans buy at 125x the rate of fans who are not called. - **Shelf and field intelligence for a beauty brand.** Revenue forecasts for every shelf move, field staffing optimization, and AI checks of shelf photos. Fixing the retailer data feed alone recovered about $1M a week in sales. - **In-store computer vision for a retail analytics company.** Vision models run on edge devices in each store. They count 98% of entries with zero false counts, and store no video or faces. - **AI legal review for true-story TV scripts at a global media company.** Attorneys start from an AI first pass that flags defamation, false light, and privacy risks. A review that took about 7 hours now takes about 1. ### How We Pay Most pay models were built before AI changed how fast engineers can work. Ours wasn’t: you get a base salary plus an uncapped quarterly bonus based on the work you ship, so the more you do with AI, the more you earn. Last quarter, every full-quarter engineer beat their baseline. ### How We Work Tenex is intense by design. The pace is fast, and the standards are high. People share what they learn, challenge each other, and step in to help, so the bar is high and so is the support. This is probably not the right place if you want a narrow scope, a predictable pace, or distance from customers. It is built for engineers who want responsibility, hard problems, and a steep learning curve. ### Our Vision We’re bootstrapped and profitable, and we reinvest what we earn into tools, research, and products of our own. Over time, that’s how we build a modern-day Bell Labs: a place where solving today’s problems gives us the means to tackle bigger ones. [View posting at Tenex Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tenexlabs/2a359a2a-d5ed-48e8-96b8-b93826110ee9/application) ## About Tenex Labs Tenex helps organizations adopt AI through strategy, organizational change, and embedded engineering teams that build production systems. 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