> 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/a36709a23decf89e Tavus posts a FDE role to integrate and configure the product in San Francisco, CA, at $180,000–$230,000 · total compensation base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Forward Deployed Engineer operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and customers, taking frontier conversational video and AI concepts from discovery through production. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Tavus](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tavus) Posted Mar 23, 2026 by Tavus · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$180,000–$230,000 · total compensation** San Francisco, CA Hybrid Full-time Forward Deployed Engineer operating at the intersection of product, engineering, and customers, taking frontier conversational video and AI concepts from discovery through production. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fa36709a23decf89e&placement=top) - [View posting at Tavus](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus/8964aca2-7693-4566-8d31-823ab8950980/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 $180K–$230K Above the median Midpoint $205K · median $190K This job $180K to $230K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Integrates and configures it 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 San Francisco, CA. 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**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: Recruiting in San Francisco and London; San Francisco candidates are preferred in-office around three days per week, but strong remote candidates are considered. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [CoreWeave](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/coreweave) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/937cb0d74a7ba1cd) Sunnyvale, CA · San Francisco, CA 3mo ago $182,000–$242,000 [Perplexity](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/perplexity) ### [Applied AI Architect, Perplexity Computer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/0286143cb6cbd380) San Francisco, CA 2mo ago $200,000–$250,000 [Commure](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/commure) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cd14e4328d349710) Mountain View, CA Remote 5mo ago $180,000–$230,000 - [Other jobs at Tavus (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tavus) ## The job description from Tavus Posted by Tavus on Mar 23, 2026 ### About Us Tavus is building the human interface for AI. We're a Series B company backed by Sequoia, Accel, Lightspeed, Index Ventures, CRV, Scale Venture Partners, and Y Combinator. We're roughly 90–100 people, with offices in San Francisco and London. But what makes this role interesting isn't our funding or stage. It's what a Customer Engineer actually gets to own and build here. The role sits at the intersection of product, engineering, and customers, and we think about it in three buckets: ### 1. Product Support & Ownership You'll work on some of the hardest technical challenges our customers face as they build and launch products with Tavus. When a customer is blocked, your job isn't simply to answer their question. You dig into what's actually preventing them from being successful, understand the root cause, and own getting them unblocked. Sometimes that means debugging a complex real-time system. Sometimes it means finding a bug and shipping the fix yourself. Sometimes you realize the customer is struggling because something is missing from Tavus, so you build the feature, improve the API, or rethink part of the product experience. You're close enough to customers to see problems before most of the company does, and technical enough to do something about them. The goal is not just to solve the problem in front of you. It's to make the product better because that problem happened. ### 2. Forward Deployed Product & Engineering You'll work directly with customers to take an idea from "we want to build this" to a real product running in production. That requires much more than writing code. You'll work with founders, product teams, and engineers to understand what they're trying to accomplish, help shape what the experience should actually be, push back when there's a better approach, and then build it. You might own the product experience, architecture, application code, Tavus integration, and deployment. You'll obsess over the small details that determine whether something simply works or actually feels great to use. These aren't demos that disappear after a sales call. Customers may commercialize what you build and put it in front of their own users. In some cases, a meaningful part of their business will depend on it. And you don't disappear after launch. You help make sure what you built remains reliable, scalable, and production-ready. You should be comfortable going from a blank page to a product that real people depend on. ### 3. Innovation & the Art of the Possible This is probably the most unusual part of the role. Tavus is working with technology that is still defining its own category. There isn't a playbook for everything you can build with conversational video and AI because a lot of it hasn't been built yet. Part of your job is exploring the art of the possible. We want Customer Engineers who look at the technology and think: "What should exist now that this is possible?" And then go build it. Prototype something weird. Build an experience nobody asked for yet. Combine Tavus with other emerging technologies. Put it in front of people and see how they react. A big part of this job is simply building cool things that show people what the future could look like. ### The Team You'd be joining a small Customer Engineering team that currently includes: - An ex-founder and former Cruise software engineer - A backend engineer from Spotify - A two-time venture-backed founder We're looking to add two more people to this group. This is a small team with a lot of autonomy. You're expected to identify problems, make decisions, build things, and own the outcome. ### Who Tends to Be Great at This There isn't one perfect background. Ex-founders tend to be a strong fit because they're used to talking to users, sweating product details, writing code, making tradeoffs, and owning the outcome rather than just one piece of the stack. We'd also love to meet engineers from AI-native companies who have built and shipped customer-facing products, or people coming from forward-deployed / solutions engineering roles where they were writing real production code, not just integration glue. More than anything, we're looking for someone who combines: ### Product taste + strong engineering + customer obsession + attention to detail. That last part matters a lot. We care about the small parts of an experience: the extra second of latency, an awkward transition, an API that is technically correct but frustrating to use, or a workflow that takes five steps when it should take two. You should be full-stack enough to build a working product yourself and comfortable working with AI/LLMs, real-time systems, video, or APIs. You also need to genuinely enjoy working with customers. You'll run technical discovery, work directly with founders and engineering teams, challenge assumptions, push back on bad scope, and often be the technical and product face of Tavus. We're looking for someone who doesn't just think about what a customer is asking for today. You should be able to understand the underlying problem, obsess over the experience, and imagine what they'll want tomorrow. ### Compensation & Location Total compensation is roughly **$180K–$230K**. We have offices in San Francisco and London and are recruiting in both locations. For San Francisco, we prefer people who can be in the office around three days a week, but that isn't a hard requirement. Strong remote candidates count too. If you want to solve hard technical problems, build products customers will actually commercialize, own what you ship, and explore what's possible with frontier AI and video, we should talk. **Learn more:** Tavus.io [View posting at Tavus](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tavus/8964aca2-7693-4566-8d31-823ab8950980/application) ## About Tavus Builds APIs and software for real-time AI humans that see, hear, speak, and render lifelike video for recruiting, training, support, and companionship. 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