> 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.

# FDE jobs by project stage

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/browse/project-stage

FDE jobs by project stage in the US. Each list opens the current postings, with the posting count and the employers behind them.

**3,273** postings · **1,363** companies · read Nov 6, 2026

## Implementation / production

- [All Implementation / production jobs 3,202 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=implementation)

## Ongoing operations

- [All Ongoing operations jobs 2,415 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=operations)
- [For external customers 1,799 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=external&stage=operations)
- [Travel 25% or more 429 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=operations&travelMin=25)
- [For customers and internal teams 215 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=operations)
- [Visa sponsorship 60 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=operations&visa=yes)
- [For customers and internal teams · travel 25% or more 37 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=operations&travelMin=25)

## Proof of concept

- [All Proof of concept jobs 1,268 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=poc)
- [For external customers 940 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=external&stage=poc)
- [Travel 25% or more 292 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=poc&travelMin=25)
- [For internal teams 222 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=internal&stage=poc)
- [For customers and internal teams 105 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=poc)
- [Visa sponsorship 44 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=poc&visa=yes)
- [For customers and internal teams · travel 25% or more 16 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=poc&travelMin=25)

## Pre-sales / evaluation

- [All Pre-sales / evaluation jobs 783 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=presales)
- [Travel 25% or more 220 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=presales&travelMin=25)
- [For customers and internal teams 75 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=presales)
- [Visa sponsorship 32 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?stage=presales&visa=yes)
- [For customers and internal teams · travel 25% or more 23 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?recipient=both&stage=presales&travelMin=25)

## Other conditions

Employer postings · Postings read on November 6, 2026 · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)