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# Forward Deployed Engineer

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/90635a8118ec8c9c

Pulse posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA, at $140,000–$200,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Lead discovery, architecture, and implementation for VPC and on-premises customer rollouts Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Pulse](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pulse)

Posted Jul 29, 2025 by Pulse · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$140,000–$200,000** + equity San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time

Lead discovery, architecture, and implementation for VPC and on-premises customer rollouts

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$140K–$200K Below the median

Midpoint $170K · median $190K

This job $140K to $200K. 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

- **4+ years** software, solutions, or platform engineering

Background

- **Software engineering**

Visa

- **Sponsors visas**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

The posting asks for 4+ 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?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: San Francisco, CA

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Visa sponsorship**: Available

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Pulse

Posted by Pulse on Jul 29, 2025

### Overview

**
**Pulse is tackling one of the most persistent challenges in data infrastructure: extracting accurate, structured information from complex documents at scale. We have a breakthrough approach to document understanding that combines intelligent schema mapping with fine-tuned extraction models where legacy OCR and other parsing tools consistently fail.

We are a small, fast-growing team of engineers in San Francisco powering Fortune 100 enterprises, YC startups, public investment firms, and growth-stage companies. We are backed by tier 1 investors and growing quickly.

What makes our tech special is our multi-stage architecture:

- Layout understanding with specialized component detection models
- Low-latency OCR models for targeted extraction
- Advanced reading-order algorithms for complex structures
- Proprietary table structure recognition and parsing
- Fine-tuned vision-language models for charts, tables, and figures

If you are passionate about the intersection of computer vision, NLP, and data infrastructure, your work at Pulse will directly impact customers and shape the future of document intelligence.

### What we are looking for

- 5 days in-office at our San Francisco office
- Eager to learn and adapt quickly
- Prior startup or founding experience is a plus

**About the Role**

Work directly with strategic customers to deploy Pulse in secure environments and integrate with their systems. Define success criteria, design architectures, and take solutions into production.

### Responsibilities

- Lead discovery, architecture, and implementation for VPC and on-prem rollouts
- Build integrations with S3, Snowflake, Kafka, Databricks, and internal tools
- Own performance, reliability, and security for single-tenant environments
- Set up monitoring, alerting, and runbooks
- Write documentation and train customer teams
- Track usage, SLAs, and accuracy, and drive expansion

### Requirements

- 4+ years in software, solutions, or platform engineering
- Strong Python, APIs, SQL, and AWS
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Terraform, and observability
- Comfortable with networks, IAM, SSO, and enterprise security reviews
- Clear communication; some travel as needed

### Nice to have

- Deployments in regulated environments
- Data pipeline experience

**Sponsorship
**Sponsorship available.

**Compensation and benefits**
Competitive base salary plus equity, performance-based bonus, relocation assistance for Bay Area moves, daily meal stipend, medical, vision, and dental coverage.

[View posting at Pulse](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pulse/fbe20a0c-31a4-4c53-9734-7f2840e3336b/application)

## About Pulse

API-driven engine that extracts accurate structured data from complex documents (tables, charts, handwriting) where legacy OCR fails, for enterprises and AI teams.

Seed · 1–10 people

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