> 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 New Grad Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ba5921576865e9ac Novita AI posts a junior FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Mateo, CA with no pay posted. A customer-facing engineering role that owns technical engagements from evaluation through production, helping customers deploy and scale AI workloads on Novita’s infrastructure. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Novita AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/novita-ai) Posted Oct 12, 2026 by Novita AI · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Mateo, CA On-site Full-time A customer-facing engineering role that owns technical engagements from evaluation through production, helping customers deploy and scale AI workloads on Novita’s infrastructure. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fba5921576865e9ac&placement=top) - [View posting at Novita AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novita-ai/0d9d673e-0753-4a38-bbf2-4ec019a0b26e/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 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **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 Mateo, 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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We provide high-performance Model APIs, dedicated inference infrastructure, and Agent Sandbox environments that help developers and enterprises build, deploy, and scale production AI applications. ### The Role As a **Forward Deployed Engineer**, you’ll work directly with customers building some of the most demanding AI applications. You’ll operate at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, product, and customer success. You may spend one day helping an AI startup diagnose inference latency, another helping a coding-agent company scale thousands of sandbox environments, and another building an integration that becomes a reusable product capability. You will be expected not only to solve technical problems, but also to understand why those problems matter to the customer and what is required for their workload to successfully reach production. ### What You’ll Do - Own the technical relationship with customers from evaluation through production. - Understand customer architectures, workloads, and engineering requirements. - Deploy and integrate: - Model APIs and inference endpoints - Dedicated model serving - Agent Sandbox environments - Debug issues across APIs, containers, Linux, networking, model serving, and distributed systems. - Analyze inference performance including latency, throughput, concurrency, caching, and reliability. - Build customer-specific integrations, prototypes, tools, and automation. - Support PoCs and help customers transition into production. - Work closely with Technical Account Executives on capacity planning, quotas, pricing considerations, and workload expansion. - Identify opportunities where customers can expand their usage of Novita. - Translate recurring customer problems into product requirements. - Build reusable tooling and reference implementations that improve the experience for future customers. - Work closely with engineering teams across the US and Asia. ### What We’re Looking For ### Requirements - Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical field. - Strong software engineering fundamentals. - Proficiency in Python and experience with at least one additional programming language. - Strong understanding of APIs, Linux, networking, and cloud-native applications. - Experience debugging complex technical systems. - Strong written and verbal communication skills. - Comfortable working directly with customers. - High ownership and ability to operate in ambiguous environments. - Ability to move quickly between engineering, product, and customer problems. ### Nice to Have - Experience with LLMs, AI agents, or inference infrastructure. - Familiarity with vLLM, SGLang, Ray, or distributed serving frameworks. - Experience with Docker and Kubernetes. - Understanding of model serving performance, including batching, caching, throughput, latency, and concurrency. - Experience building coding agents, AI agents, or sandboxed execution systems. - Open-source contributions, startup experience, or significant technical side projects. - Background in solutions engineering, developer relations, technical consulting, or other customer-facing technical roles. - Interest in the commercial side of technology, including how usage, pricing, and product adoption connect. - Professional working proficiency in Mandarin Chinese. ### What Success Looks Like Within your first year, you will: - Independently own the technical relationship with multiple customers. - Help strategic customers successfully move workloads into production. - Become a trusted technical advisor to customer engineering teams. - Build reusable solutions that accelerate future deployments. - Identify technical and product opportunities that increase customer adoption. - Influence Novita’s product roadmap through direct exposure to real production workloads. 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