> 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/a6fdce06a517b2c3 Pear-VC posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY with no pay posted. Own complex enterprise deployments from customer discovery through production launch. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Pear-VC](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pear-vc) Posted Aug 18, 2026 by Pear-VC · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted New York, NY On-site Full-time Own complex enterprise deployments from customer discovery through production launch. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fa6fdce06a517b2c3&placement=top) - [View posting at Pear-VC](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Pear-VC/c1d73167-cb15-43ae-bedc-c39fc9e229d1/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 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 (not covered) Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: People manager ### 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. 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Over the last year, the size of the contracts we've been closing has increased roughly **10x**, with several enterprise deals now reaching six figures and beyond. At that scale, deployment stops being simple. Our largest customers need custom integrations, complex workflows, outbound orchestration, legacy systems connected, and dozens of edge cases handled before AI can actually run meaningful parts of their business. We're looking for the person who wants to own that problem. ### THE ROLE We're hiring our **Forward Deployed Engineer**. You will take our hardest enterprise customers from: ### "We want Frontdesk to do this" → "It's live in production." There won't always be a playbook. You might fly to a customer's office, sit with their operators, understand a workflow nobody has documented properly, design the solution, and then build the missing integration or product capability yourself. You won't throw requirements over the wall to another team. You'll work directly in the codebase and own the outcome. And once it works, you'll ask the most important question: ### How do we make sure we never have to build this from scratch again? You'll take what you learn in the field and turn it into reusable Frontdesk product, infrastructure, and deployment primitives. ### WHAT YOU'LL DO - Own our largest and most technically difficult enterprise deployments. - Work directly with customers to understand how their businesses actually operate. - Build integrations, workflows, internal tooling, and product capabilities needed to get them live. - Travel onsite when being in the room helps us solve the problem faster. - Work across voice, SMS, email, chat, APIs, data, LLMs, and workflow orchestration. - Debug whatever is blocking a deployment, even when the problem sits outside Frontdesk. - Identify patterns across customers and turn one-off solutions into scalable product. - Work closely with the founders and engineering team on what Frontdesk should build next. ### BUILD AND LEAD THE FUNCTION We expect this to become a major function inside Frontdesk. At first, you'll be extremely hands-on. You'll write code, work with customers, and personally own deployments. As we scale, we expect you to **build and eventually lead the Forward Deployed Engineering organization**. That means defining how we deploy enterprise AI, hiring the team, building the playbooks, and determining how Forward Deployed Engineering works with Product, Engineering, Sales, and Customer Success. We're looking for someone who doesn't just want a job. We're looking for someone who wants to **build something from zero, own a massive surface area, and eventually lead the organization they create.** ### YOU MIGHT BE A FIT IF YOU - Are a strong software engineer who wants more ownership than a traditional engineering role provides. - Love talking to customers and solving real problems, not just working from tickets. - Are comfortable jumping across the stack and learning whatever is necessary. - Have strong product intuition and naturally think about how to generalize what you build. - Thrive when the problem is ambiguous and there is no existing playbook. - Move extremely quickly and take personal ownership over outcomes. - Would rather own an entire problem than a small piece of a large system. - Could see yourself starting a company someday, or already think like a founder. 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