> 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. # AI Builder - FDE, Research, & Product (NYC) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/919dd18ba2abae95 Hyde posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $140,000–$300,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. An AI Builder works across forward-deployed engineering, product, and research to build and deploy training and inference systems for enterprise RL-based agents. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Hyde](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hyde) Posted Feb 12, 2026 by Hyde · open on Ashby as of Nov 6, 2026 **$140,000–$300,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time An AI Builder works across forward-deployed engineering, product, and research to build and deploy training and inference systems for enterprise RL-based agents. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F919dd18ba2abae95&placement=top) - [View posting at Hyde](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyde/a95c2dc5-30a1-4914-8f59-10928d4b42d2/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 $140K–$300K Above the median Midpoint $220K · median $190K This job $140K to $300K. 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**: Both - **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 [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Google Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4d1c7448b8630fd7) Mountain View, CA · New York, NY 11d ago $174,000–$252,000 [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) — Agentforce Orchestration](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/aa41a1949bc5bc55) Atlanta, GA · Chicago, IL · +9 more 2mo ago $88,970–$316,750 [Stripe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/stripe) ### [Integration Engineer, Professional Services](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/559119d309732ed4) New York, NY · Seattle, WA · US remote Remote 3mo ago $190,400–$285,600 ## The job description from Hyde Posted by Hyde on Feb 12, 2026 ### About Hyde Hyde builds specialist AI models and agents for high-stakes enterprise workflows. Our training and inference platform extracts proprietary data, deep institutional context, and enterprise dark matter to create models that reason like an enterprise's best operators, improving with every run. We fundamentally believe the next frontier of AI isn't generalist models, but specialist ones that redefine what's possible in a given domain. Getting there requires sophisticated post-training, alignment, and reinforcement learning paradigms to make agents reliably perform complex tasks in enterprise environment. We are a fast-growing, talent-dense team of AI researchers who built frontier open models at DeepMind, early FDEs who shaped Palantir's commercial business, IOI medalists, and organizational strategists from McKinsey and HBS. You will be joining a 30+ person team based across NYC, London, and Mumbai, backed by Bain Capital Ventures and General Catalyst, and already partnering with Global 500s, AI natives, and investment firms to shape the future deployment of AI. ### What is an AI Builder? Being an AI Builder at Hyde is like leading your own Applied AI startup, you’re the CXO, driving vision, strategy, and execution. You'll work in talent-dense teams to build and deploy the training and inference stack that enables enterprises to develop RL-based agents. AI Builders get the opportunity to work across the three tracks, and the freedom to focus on the area aligning with experience and interest. - **Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE):** Embed directly with enterprise CXOs and senior stakeholders to identify high-value problem spaces and translate them into deployable AI systems, feeding into Hyde's core platform, primitives, and tooling. - **Product:** Iterate on Hyde’s product toolkits by capturing cutting-edge applied AI patterns that create delivery leverage. Equally capture usage insights from production environments to refine product abstractions and interfaces for deployments. - **Research:** Work at the frontier of post-training research, training and fine-tuning models, building agents, designing evaluation frameworks, and creating RL environments for specific enterprise domains. Feed key breakthroughs and techniques back into Hyde's core platform, keeping the product at the cutting edge as the field evolves. *We have a select number of **AI builder internship opportunities** — if you are applying for that, please note this in your application.* ### You may be the right fit if you have: - Experience working in applied ML, reinforcement learning, evals, product engineering, and/or top-tier management consulting. Ideally, deep model-level understanding and experience deploying AI in creative ways to solve real-world problems. - A strong foundation in ML basics (Evaluation, Training, Problem Decomposition). Preferred backgrounds include but are not limited to Computer Science, Mathematics, Software Engineering, Physics, Machine Learning, Data Science. - Ability to run technical discovery with senior stakeholders, translate ambiguous business problems into scoped AI systems, and communicate model behavior credibly to non-technical audiences. - Proficiency in software engineering principles and an understanding of languages such as Python, Java, C++, TypeScript / JavaScript. ### The details - Location: NYC - Base salary range: $140,000-300,000 / year (plus equity and employee benefits on top) - specific offer will depend on experience and technical skill set - Full time role *We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other legally protected status. * [View posting at Hyde](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hyde/a95c2dc5-30a1-4914-8f59-10928d4b42d2/application) ## About Hyde Builds training and inference software and deploys embedded teams to help enterprises turn proprietary data and workflows into specialist AI models and agents. 10–50 people ## Similar jobs [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [AI Engineer (French Speaking) ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/26015012246c689a) New York, NY Hybrid 10d ago $180,000–$250,000 [Traba](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/traba) ### [Senior Software Engineer (AI Agents)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/38341ca6668dcc65) New York, NY New · 6d ago $200,000–$240,000 [Prime Intellect](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/prime-intellect) ### [Applied Researcher - Forward-Deployed RL](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0ed15e783d00992e) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Remote 2w ago $150,000–$300,000 [Alloy](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/alloy) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0965e7891fc2216d) New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $141,000–$250,000 [August](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/august) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a8294291597368a7) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $140,000–$240,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [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 Hyde and want this page changed or removed? 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