> 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. # Member of Technical Staff, Forward-Deployed Engineering Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8ffe9f048f08a5d8 Quadrillion posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $175,000–$350,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,868 postings with pay. This forward-deployed engineering role deploys Qualia in varied customer environments, connects it to customer data sources, and prototypes integrations and workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [Quadrillion](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/quadrillion) Posted Jun 26, 2026 by Quadrillion · open on Ashby as of Nov 9, 2026 **$175,000–$350,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time This forward-deployed engineering role deploys Qualia in varied customer environments, connects it to customer data sources, and prototypes integrations and workflows. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8ffe9f048f08a5d8&placement=top) - [View posting at Quadrillion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quadrillion-labs/6559c44a-6a33-40d0-93cd-bdb19da0e799/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 $175K–$350K Above the median Midpoint $263K · median $190K This job $175K to $350K. 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 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 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 [OpenAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) ### [Applied AI Engineer, API Platform, Digital Natives](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/05eb345d2d86dd06) New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $251,000–$278,000 [OpenAI Deployment Company](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai-deployment-company) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - US](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/465d1561603a9449) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $170,000–$400,000 [Ramp](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ramp) ### [Software Engineer, Forward Deployed AI Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f9197cc51191b917) New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago $189,000–$330,000 ## The job description from Quadrillion Posted by Quadrillion on Jun 26, 2026 As a Forward-Deployed Engineer at Quadrillion Labs, you'll represent our company in our work with our highly varied set of customers. This is not a traditional FDE role: we are looking for folks who combine enormous technical excellence with deep empathy and an ability to work with customers from a wide variety of verticals. You'll work closely with the core engineering and product teams to triage features and identify ways to improve customer outcomes. ### What you'll do - **Deploy Qualia into customers' real environments.** Stand up Qualia in unusual enterprise environments, connect to their unique data sources, and navigate their (both engineering and business) constraints. - **Build what customers need to succeed.** Prototype integrations and workflows that answer customer needs, and transfer your learnings into production for all of our customers. - **Manage customer/product relations. **Be the first line of defense for the company; speak to our customers in Slack, over email, and in person, and get them excited about using Qualia. ### Required qualifications - Strong full-stack or backend engineering experience, especially with Python - Previous experience as a FDE *or* previous experience in a strongly customer-facing role - Comfort working in unfamiliar codebases - Ability to move quickly in a zero-to-one environment ### About this role We work in-person 5 days a week out of our office in Midtown Manhattan. We cover generous benefits for employees, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, lunch and dinner covered, and other varied stipends. We pride ourselves on a company culture that values a diversity of thoughts and opinions. ### About Quadrillion Quadrillion Labs builds Qualia, an agentic research intelligence platform that does real computational research — running experiments, analyzing data, and surfacing insight for the people who do this work at the highest level. We're a team out of Stanford NLP, HRT, Citadel, Jane Street, Google Research, and Harvard Med, building for an audience that looks a lot like us. We've raised ~$18M from Conviction, Audacious, Bloomberg Beta, ex/ante, and angels including Wes McKinney, the creator of pandas. We think this is the Industrial Revolution moment for research, and we're building the team to define what comes next. ### Equal Employment Opportunity Quadrillion Labs is an equal opportunity employer. We make hiring and employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. We are committed to building a team where talented people can do their best work. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the application or interview process, let us know at careers@quadrillion.io. [View posting at Quadrillion](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/quadrillion-labs/6559c44a-6a33-40d0-93cd-bdb19da0e799/application) ## About Quadrillion Quadrillion builds Qualia, an autonomous research platform that runs experiments, analyzes data, and helps researchers discover new directions. 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