> 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- Asset Management | IFS Copperleaf Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c78c97d52dcd0678 IFS posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs, remote, hiring in Illinois, at $145,000–$180,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,861 postings with pay. A customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer owns technical outcomes for strategic and net-new asset-management opportunities, from discovery and prototypes built on customer data through production adoption. Read from the employer’s posting on November 10, 2026. - [IFS](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ifs) First seen Nov 10, 2026 · open on SmartRecruiters as of Nov 10, 2026 **$145,000–$180,000** Remote, hiring in Illinois Full-time A customer-facing Forward Deployed Engineer owns technical outcomes for strategic and net-new asset-management opportunities, from discovery and prototypes built on customer data through production adoption. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fc78c97d52dcd0678&placement=top) - [View posting at IFS](https://jobs.smartrecruiters.com/IFS1/744000160682099) 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 $145K–$180K Below the median Midpoint $163K · median $190K This job $145K to $180K. Senior FDE postings, 1,861 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 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 50%** - **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 work is remote from the US. Can you work from the US? 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**: Itasca, IL - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Up to 50% - **Pay**: ## More like this [Realm](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/realm) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer - Chicago](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/026c2bf8e15d9b23) Chicago, IL Remote 3mo ago $115,000–$200,000 [Salesforce](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/salesforce) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) (Mid/Senior Level)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2a5e1855e6916121) San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA · +8 more Remote 4mo ago $88,970–$198,170 [Lovelytics](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/lovelytics) ### [Lead Consultant, Gen AI ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/49d6ba1b5b494dcd) Arlington, VA · Chicago, IL Remote 5mo ago $112,000–$160,000 - [Other jobs at IFS (2)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ifs) ## What you’ll do - Own discovery, scoping, architecture, implementation, evaluation, and production handoff for strategic customer solutions. - Build and evaluate customer-data prototypes quickly, then productionize solutions for security, reliability, and maintainability. - Measure adoption, workflow impact, reliability, and time-to-value with customer stakeholders. - Translate validated customer patterns and production evidence into roadmap investments and reusable accelerators. ## What you’ll bring - Run technical discovery and value conversations with technical and business stakeholders. - Generalize customer-specific solutions into reusable accelerators. - Apply LLM development, RAG, prompt and context engineering, and agent orchestration; use modern AI coding tools such as Claude Code. - Understand enterprise integrations, including REST and streaming APIs, authentication, and systems such as ESRI ArcGIS/Smallworld, IBM Maximo, SAP/Oracle ERP/PPM, and PowerBI. ## About IFS IFS builds AI-powered ERP, enterprise asset management, and field service management software for asset- and service-heavy industries like aerospace, energy, and manufacturing. 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