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# Forward Deployed Engineer

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Rowspace posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $150,000–$275,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Own post-sale technical relationships with investment-firm customers, embedding in their data environments to build and optimize production integrations and workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026.

- [Rowspace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rowspace)

Posted Apr 20, 2026 by Rowspace · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026

**$150,000–$275,000** + equity New York, NY On-site Full-time

Own post-sale technical relationships with investment-firm customers, embedding in their data environments to build and optimize production integrations and workflows.

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$150K–$275K Above the median

Midpoint $213K · median $190K

This job $150K to $275K. 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**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **2+ years** Software engineering or technical customer-facing role
- **5+ years** Software engineering or technical customer-facing role *Preferred*

Background

- **Software engineering**
- **Solutions and customer engineering**

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## Conditions

- **Location**: New York, NY

- **Work arrangement**: On-site

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Rowspace

Posted by Rowspace on Apr 20, 2026

### The Role

We're looking for Forward Deployed Engineers who thrive at the intersection of deep technical work and customer impact. You'll own the technical customer relationship post-sale, embedding in their workflows, building production-grade, deeply integrated solutions on their data, and driving real, meaningful outcomes.

You'll see how investors actually work up close — their messy data environments, their internal systems, their workarounds — and translate what you learn and build into platform improvements that benefit every customer. You'll have real agency and impact, working directly alongside our founders and engineers to iterate fast and transform how the world’s most sophisticated investors work.

### What You'll Do

- Embed with customers — build custom integrations and pipelines on their data, in their environment, meet regularly to understand evolving needs and identify new opportunities, and scope, redesign, and ship new workflows from the ground up.
- Troubleshoot and optimize — debug retrieval quality, LLM performance, and data ingestion in live production environments.
- Partner with AI Deployment Managers to drive adoption and unlock new use cases.
- Act as the voice of the customer — surface platform gaps and themes before anyone else, and work with engineering and product to identify what should be productized. Often you'll build the fix yourself.
- Turn what you build for one customer into something that benefits everyone — ship the best integrations and patterns into the platform, and develop playbooks that scale every future engagement.

### What You Have

- 2–5+ years as a software engineer or in a technical customer-facing role (FDE, solutions engineer/architect, implementation engineer) — ideally at a company where you shipped directly to customers.
- Strong technical foundation — proficient in Python and SQL, comfortable working across the stack and in messy real-world data environments (PDFs, Excel models, inconsistent formats).
- Familiar with AI/ML concepts — RAG, embeddings, LLMs, retrieval systems. You don't train models, but you debug and optimize them.
- Customer and outcome-obsessed — you're genuinely curious about how customers' systems work, and you measure success by what changes for them, not by what you shipped.
- High agency and a builder's mindset — something breaks on-site with a customer, you fix it. You enjoy building solutions and figure things out without waiting to be told what to do.
- Strong communicator — you translate customer pain into engineering priorities and explain complex systems to non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with financial services is a plus — you understand how investors use data, what due diligence looks like, and why data accuracy matters.

### Perks & Benefits

- Health & Wellness: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Future Planning: 401(k) plan including employer match on contributions made while employed by Rowspace
- Food & Fuel: Monthly commuter stipend, plus free daily lunch and a fully stocked snack bar in the office
- Team Culture: Regular team offsites to bond and strategize away from the desk

[View posting at Rowspace](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rowspace/3b4dfc78-d672-4499-88ad-6826346bef26/application)

## About Rowspace

Rowspace helps financial firms turn fragmented proprietary data and institutional judgment into secure, finance-native AI for investment decisions.

Series A · 10–50 people

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