> 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. # AI Enablement Engineer, IT Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c5ac383864ecb6c5 ID.me posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in Mclean, VA, at $103,000–$132,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,934 postings with pay. Build end-to-end automations, API integrations, and LLM-powered business workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 15, 2026. - [ID.me](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/id-me) - [Apply on ID.me’s site](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/idme/jobs/7777644003) $103,000–$132,000 Below the median - Mclean, VA · On-site - 4+ years - Posted 5 months ago Jun 25 Midpoint $118K, $73K below the median of 1,934 senior FDE postings. [Compare pay](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) Build end-to-end automations, API integrations, and LLM-powered business workflows. ## The work - **Kind of work**: Builds for teams inside the company - **Time split**: Mostly building · - **Project stages**: Implementation, Operations · - **Code**: Writes production code · - **Builds for**: Internal teams - **Level**: Senior · - **Role**: Technical lead · ## What they ask for - **Experience**: **4+ years** Professional experience building integrations, automations, or software, including production work with LLMs or AI agents - **Background**: Software engineering - **Location**: **Mclean, VA · On-site** On-site five days per week at an office in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. - **Employment**: Full-time - **Tools**: MCP, Python, Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, RAG, OAuth, webhooks, vector databases ## The job description from ID.me Posted by ID.me on Jun 24, 2026 ### Company Overview IDMe is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with IDMe once and seamlessly login across websites without having to create a new login and verify their identity again. Over 175 million users experience streamlined login and identity verification with IDMe at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 100 healthcare organizations. Over 600 consumer brands use IDMe to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. IDMe’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. IDMe is committed to “No Identity Left Behind” to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. To learn more, visit https://network.id.me/. IDMe is a full-time, in-office culture. Unless a specific job description explicitly states otherwise, all roles are on-site five days per week at one of our offices in McLean, VA; Mountain View, CA; New York City, NY; or Tampa, FL. Certain roles — such as field-based sales or other remote-by-design positions — may have different work arrangements as noted in their individual postings. At IDMe, we embrace the thoughtful use of AI tools in our daily work and there are even occasions where we leverage AI in our hiring process. However, during the interview process, we want to understand your individual skills and experiences. Therefore, we have guidelines on how AI can be appropriately used during your application and interviews which can be found here. ### Role Overview We are seeking an AI Enablement Engineer to join our new Corporate AI Enablement & Efficiency team — the group responsible for turning AI from a buzzword into everyday leverage for the entire company. You will design and build the automations, integrations, and AI agents that connect our applications, eliminate manual work, and help every team do more with the tools they already have. Your work will directly shape how a 1,000-person organization adopts AI: safely, measurably, and at scale. You will wire up production workflows, connect systems through APIs, and stand up MCP servers, AI skills, and agents that give teams reliable, governed access to large language models. Other days you will be out in the business, spotting the manual, repetitive work worth automating and shipping solutions that stick. Throughout, you will build like an engineer: real error handling, observability, evaluations, and guardrails — and you will keep Security and Data close so everything you ship stays compliant. You will work at the frontier of applied AI: agents, MCP, retrieval, and orchestration with the autonomy to build real things that of colleagues. If you love turning messy manual processes into elegant solutions and want to help define how a company puts AI to work, this is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact. ### Role Responsibilities - Design, build, and maintain end-to-end automations and integrations, connecting the company's applications, data, and AI services. - Integrate systems through APIs and webhooks — handling authentication, rate limits, retries, and idempotency. - Build AI-powered capabilities using large language models: structured outputs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), and tool / function-calling that automate real business processes. - Develop and maintain MCP servers and reusable AI skills and agents that give teams safe, governed access to internal systems and data. - Instrument everything you build with logging, monitoring, evaluations, and guardrails, and resolve failures before users feel them. - Partner with teams across the company to identify high-value automation and AI use cases, then scope, prioritize, and deliver them. - Work with the Security and Data teams to ensure responsible, compliant handling of data, secrets, and AI usage. - Contribute to build-vs-buy evaluations and help reduce software and license waste by consolidating or replacing tools with automation. - Create clear documentation, templates, and enablement materials so your work scales beyond you. - Set technical patterns, standards, and architecture for the team's automation and agent platform, and mentor other engineers. - Own the architecture of the AI and automation estate and lead the team's most complex, cross-functional initiatives. (Applies if the role is filled at the Lead level.) - Perform other duties as assigned to meet team and organizational needs. ### Required Skills / Abilities - 4+ years building integrations, automations, or software in a professional environment including production work with LLMs or AI agents. - Hands-on experience with workflow-automation. - Strong API fluency (REST / JSON, OAuth, webhooks) and the ability to read and write code in Python, Go, JavaScript / TypeScript or similar. - Practical experience building with large language models: prompting, structured outputs, and at least one of RAG, tool / function-calling, or agents. - A production mindset - error handling, logging and observability, testing or evaluations, and secure handling of secrets and sensitive data. - Ability to work directly with non-technical colleagues: understanding a business process and translating it into a reliable, well-documented automation. - Understanding of data privacy, security, and responsible-AI considerations, and a habit of partnering with Security and Data teams. ### Ideal Qualifications - Experience building or deploying MCP servers, AI agents, or custom AI skills. - Familiarity with the modern AI stack: orchestration frameworks, vector databases, and evaluation tooling. - A portfolio of shipped automations or agents that shows production quality, not just prototypes. - Experience integrating common business systems and their APIs (HRIS, ITSM, CRM, finance, and collaboration suites). - Exposure to enterprise AI tools (AI copilots, chat assistants) and helping teams adopt them effectively. - A track record of reducing software or license spend through automation or tool consolidation. - Experience setting standards, mentoring engineers, or owning build-vs-buy and platform decisions. - Strong written communication and documentation skills, and a bias toward making your work reusable. The annual base salary listed does not include a company bonus, incentive for sales roles, equity and benefits which will be determined based on experience, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location and role. IDMe offers comprehensive medical, dental, vision, health savings account, flexible spending accounts (medical, limited purpose, dependent care, commuter benefit accounts), basic and voluntary life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) with company match, parental leave, ability to participate in unlimited paid time off subject to the terms and conditions of the PTO policy, including 8 company wide holidays, short and long-term disability insurance, accident and critical illness insurance, referral bonus policy, employee assistance program, pet insurance, travel assistant program, wellbeing and childcare discounts, benefit advocates, and a learning and development benefit. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on qualifications, professional experiences, skills, education, relevant training, geographic location, and other job related factors. Pay Range $103,000—$132,000 USD IDMe maintains a work environment free from discrimination, where employees are treated with dignity and respect. All IDMe employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling our commitment to equal employment opportunity. IDMe does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. IDMe adheres to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline. In addition, IDMe's policy is to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances where a particular employee works. Upon request we will provide you with more information about such accommodations. Please review our Privacy Policy, including our CCPA policy, at id.me/privacy. If you provide IDMe with any personally identifiable information you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms and conditions set out in our Privacy Policy. IDMe participates in E-Verify. - [View the posting at ID.me](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/idme/jobs/7777644003) ## FDE jobs in Washington, DC area 465 postings · 145 companies · read Nov 15, 2026 Median **$180,000** · middle half $154,450–$207,500 - [Rank these jobs by fit to you](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fc5ac383864ecb6c5&placement=list) ### [AI Enablement Engineer, IT](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c5ac383864ecb6c5) **ID.me** Series E · 500–1000 people Digital identity infrastructure for government, healthcare, workforce, and consumer brands - Governed AI agents - 1,000-person org - Internal teams **$103,000–$132,000** · Mclean, VA · On-site Posted 5 months ago ### [Forward Deployed AI Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/a255cc6d726eec7f) **Crowe** 5000+ people Accounting, audit, tax, advisory, and consulting services - Agentic AI - 80% travel - Client-embedded **$102,400–$204,100** · Chicago, IL +36 · Hybrid Posted 3 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed Engineer, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7ecba7c7dee12d44) **Amazon (incl AWS)** Public · 5000+ people Tech / Retail / Cloud - Production AI - Enterprise clients - 30–50% travel **$143,700–$223,600** · Seattle, WA +4 Posted 3 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/42e22c6d1abf5612) **Guidehouse** Acquired · 5000+ people Professional services / management consulting - MCP integrations - Multi-agent AI - Citizen required **$113,000–$188,000** · Mclean, VA · Remote Posted 4 days ago New ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fe4492bc8fc65a84) **Cisco** Public · 5000+ people Networking / Security / Enterprise infrastructure - Agent guardrails - US person required - Classified systems **$149,100–$218,100** · Washington, DC Posted 4 days ago New ### [Principal Software Engineer / Architect – AI – Legal FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/48c1abac36827122) **Thomson Reuters** Public · 5000+ people Professional information services / legal-tech / tax and compliance software / news - 1M professionals - Top law firms - Legal AI systems **$158,900–$340,000** · New York, NY +5 · Hybrid Posted 4 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/021a742a23edce41) **PVM** Bootstrapped · 50–100 people Government technology / defense digital services (Palantir implementation) - Army dashboards - Palantir Foundry - Government users Pay not posted · Arlington, VA · On-site Posted 6 days ago New ### [Forward Deployed AI Engineer Lead](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/68621fc9fd3af1fe) **Guidehouse** Acquired · 5000+ people Professional services / management consulting - MCP integrations - A2A workflows - 10% travel **$149,000–$248,000** · Mclean, VA · Remote Posted 4 days ago New ### [Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer - TS/SCI (CI Poly)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/18c2eb0f60fcfda6) **Twenty** Series B Offensive cyber warfare software and national-security technology - TS/SCI required - Air-gapped ops - 4 days monthly **$192,000–$455,000** · Fort Meade, MD +1 · On-site Posted 9 days ago - [Show all 465 jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=dmv) Hiring at ID.me and want this page changed or removed? 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