> 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 Scientist Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a04f56e12cff1d0a Chai Discovery posts a FDE role to keep customers running after launch in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. A forward-deployed scientist advises drug-discovery partners, becomes an expert in their scientific challenges, and helps them use Chai’s platform effectively. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Chai Discovery](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/chai-discovery) Posted Mar 5, 2026 by Chai Discovery · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time A forward-deployed scientist advises drug-discovery partners, becomes an expert in their scientific challenges, and helps them use Chai’s platform effectively. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fa04f56e12cff1d0a&placement=top) - [View posting at Chai Discovery](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chaidiscovery/e60e0d79-622d-4251-b056-d380484d9dab/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 Not posted Not stated FDE postings, 50 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $151K to $204K, median $180K. ### The work Keeps customers running after launch Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Builds for**: External customers - **Role**: Technical lead ### Do you meet what the posting states? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Eli Lilly, GSK, Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, argenx and Novartis all use Chai to power drug discovery programs. AI is reinventing life sciences the same way it reinvented software engineering, and our team is building that future. We train frontier models that learn the underlying foundations of biochemical structure and interaction. We pair this with a computational workspace to iterate on molecules from idea to medicine, helping scientists move faster and develop medicines beyond the reach of existing methods. We value diverse perspectives and are ready to find greatness in unexpected places. ### About the role We are building out our science team and looking to make a few key hires to anchor the effort, operating at the frontiers of both drug discovery and AI research. You will be an advisor to some of the most important drug programs of our time, helping solve disease at scale. You will become an expert in our partners' scientific and therapeutic problems. You will operate as a power user who knows all the ins and outs of our technology, ensuring that our partners deploy our platform to maximum effect. You will be our eyes & ears on the ground, translating our partner's hardest asks into internal efforts, scoping and driving projects to tackle novel challenges alongside our research and engineering teams. Your findings will guide the future of our product, our models, and our approach. It will be a lot of fun, a lot of work, and extraordinarily rewarding. ### About you We index on ravenous curiosity, outlier aptitude and collaboration smarts. You operate with urgency, have well-honed communication skills, and probably can't sleep if something isn't right. We value academic research and drug discovery industry experience in antibody engineering, protein design, and computational methods. We are more than willing to bet on rising stars. Low-ego, high-EQ, and performance under pressure are what we're looking for. ### We offer The opportunity to work at the vanguard of AI research and frontier biology, with world-class people, on a mission that matters. We protect and promote a culture of high velocity and ownership. We compensate our team accordingly. [View posting at Chai Discovery](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/chaidiscovery/e60e0d79-622d-4251-b056-d380484d9dab/application) ## About Chai Discovery Builds AI models and software that help pharmaceutical and life-sciences scientists design new molecules and antibodies for difficult drug-discovery targets. 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