> 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/aa3e9bae77b0a301 Standard Template Labs (STLabs) posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $140,000–$200,000 base, above the mid-level FDE median of $149,000 across 106 postings with pay. Deploy and adapt STLabs’ enterprise service-management platform inside customer environments, working directly with customer systems, data, and workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Standard Template Labs (STLabs)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/standard-template-labs-stlabs) Posted Sep 9, 2026 by Standard Template Labs (STLabs) · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$140,000–$200,000** New York, NY On-site Full-time Deploy and adapt STLabs’ enterprise service-management platform inside customer environments, working directly with customer systems, data, and workflows. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Faa3e9bae77b0a301&placement=top) - [View posting at Standard Template Labs (STLabs)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs/cdceaacf-c664-43c9-805a-e13f55a3a7ed/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–$200K Above the median Midpoint $170K · median $149K This job $140K to $200K. Mid-level FDE postings, 106 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $123K to $162K, median $149K. ### 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 Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Mid - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **2+ years** professional software writing - **3+ years** professional software writing - **2+ years** technical consulting or solutions engineering *Preferred* Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Consulting** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 2+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a mid-level 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 - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated - **Pay**: ## More like this [Deepgram](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deepgram) ### [Forward-Deployed Engineer (FDE), Strategic Accounts](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/15bda554e4bf3180) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $155,000–$193,000 [Ambral](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ambral) ### [Member of Technical Staff (New Grad)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/69c5253c0fb82d6b) New York, NY On-site 2mo ago $140,000–$175,000 [Pangram Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pangram-labs) ### [Software Engineer - Customer Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d573e50d121dc1bf) New York, NY On-site 1mo ago $120,000–$150,000 - [Other jobs at Standard Template Labs (STLabs) (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/standard-template-labs-stlabs) ## The job description from Standard Template Labs (STLabs) Posted by Standard Template Labs (STLabs) on Sep 9, 2026 STLabs is an AI service management platform that resolves employee requests end-to-end, grounded in a living model of the enterprise. This matters because we're able to resolve requests with full context - the people, systems, services, and policies that define how an organization actually runs. Requests that used to take days of back-and-forth resolve in minutes, right where employees already work. ### About the Role Our platform turns an enterprise's historical ticket data, knowledge bases, and integrations into instant resolutions, automated workflows, and a living graph of their organization. None of that happens from a distance. Someone has to sit inside the customer's environment — their data, their integrations, their constraints — and make it real. That's forward deployed engineering, and this is the team that does it. You do not need to have done this job before. Most people haven't; the title barely existed five years ago. If you're two or three years into writing software, you like being in the room where the problem actually is, and you build things nobody asked you to build, we want to talk to you. ### Responsibilities - Deploy STLabs inside enterprise environments, potentially working on-site alongside teammates to map service workflows. - Increment on production code — integrations, data pipelines, agent workflows, and internal tooling to bridge the idealisms of our product against the practical reality of your clients. - Wire our platform into the systems customers already run: ticketing, identity, device management, knowledge bases, and whatever else lives in their stack. - Own a piece of a live deployment from your first month, and a whole one when you're ready. - Feed what you learn back into the product. You'll see more of how enterprises actually run their service operations than anyone else at the company. ### Qualifications - 2–3 years writing software professionally, or a strong engineering degree plus an internship where you shipped something real. - Comfortable in Python and TypeScript, or confident you can be by month two. - Experience integrating against third-party APIs and working with other people's data — messy, undocumented, and in production. - You build things outside of assigned work: a tool, an app, an open-source contribution, something half-finished you still talk about. - You want to be in front of customers, not just tolerate it. - You stay when the work gets unglamorous, and you can give us a specific example of a time you did. Bonus: - Hands-on LLM work — agents, tool use, retrieval, evals. Shipped, not demoed. - Exposure to ITSM, CMDB, or enterprise IT operations. - Two years in technical consulting or solutions engineering and a strong urge to write more code. ### What We Offer - Real problems, real impact. Enterprise service management touches thousands of engineers and IT teams every day — and you'll be sitting in the room with the people it touches. - High ownership. Low process. You'll ship meaningful work every week and see the impact immediately. - Technical depth. Graph databases, LLM orchestration, self-healing integrations, and natural language workflow engines — deployed into real enterprise environments, not a demo. - Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits package. - On-site collaborative workspace in Midtown, Manhattan, five days a week with the founding team, plus potentially travel to customer sites As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind. Whether that's based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws. The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role is: $140,000—$200,000 USD Interested in this role? Submit your application and we'll be in touch. [View posting at Standard Template Labs (STLabs)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/st-labs/cdceaacf-c664-43c9-805a-e13f55a3a7ed/application) ## About Standard Template Labs (STLabs) AI service management software that uses a live model of an organization to resolve employee requests and automate governed workflows. 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