> 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. # Software Engineer: Product Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cbc510d6bf03eb79 Generalist AI posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in San Mateo, CA, at $200,000–$350,000 base, above the not stated FDE median of $180,000 across 50 postings with pay. A customer-facing product engineer will build applications and workflows used to diagnose, teach, QA, run, evaluate, and train robots. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Generalist AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/generalist-ai) Posted Feb 12, 2026 by Generalist AI · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$200,000–$350,000** + equity San Mateo, CA On-site Full-time A customer-facing product engineer will build applications and workflows used to diagnose, teach, QA, run, evaluate, and train robots. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fcbc510d6bf03eb79&placement=top) - [View posting at Generalist AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalist/e26eb203-2ca3-487a-818e-1c7759547a4b/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 $200K–$350K Above the median Midpoint $275K · median $180K This job $200K to $350K. Not stated FDE postings, 50 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $151K to $204K, median $180K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: Both - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? 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 believe the industries and homes of the future will depend on humans and machines working together in new ways. Robots can help us build more and get more done. We build embodied foundation models, starting with a focus on dexterity. This requires advancing the frontiers of data, models, and hardware, to enable robots to intelligently interact with the physical world. The company embraces both large-scale AI and robotics as core to its DNA. Our team of researchers, roboticists, and company builders come from OpenAI, Boston Dynamics, Google DeepMind, and other frontier labs—with a track record of shipping AI breakthroughs. Before Generalist, we pioneered large embodied multimodal models and vision-language-action models (PaLM-E, RT-2, Gemini Robotics), launched and scaled ChatGPT and GPT-4 to hundreds of millions of users, engineered the foundations of autonomous driving, built next-generation robots (Atlas, Spot, Stretch) and pushed the limits of what they can do (from parkour to manipulation, and testing robustness). We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. ### About the Role This is a customer-facing product engineering role with many PM-like responsibilities. You will build the applications that customers, deployment partners, researchers, and other internal teams will use to diagnose, teach, QA, and run our robots. You will spend 1/4 of your time with customers learning about their use cases and distilling product requirements. You'll then be one of the key people responsible for implementing those product ideas. Today, the product surface areas are web UIs, APIs, hardware appliances, robot interfaces, and human processes. You'll be expected to seamlessly work across all parts of the stack. ### You’ll be responsible for - Crafting external and internal API interfaces that customers and partners interface with to access Generalist systems - Building the tools and workflows that enable and accelerate the core missions of researchers, engineers, and operations partners company-wide. - The primary web application researchers, ops, and deployments use to evaluate and train robot models ### You might thrive in this role if you - Have strong intuitions for what makes for great user interfaces, and user experiences - Understand modern web stack technologies: Typescript, React, FastAPI, Postgres, AWS - Understand how to expertly manage and leverage modern AI coding agents to accelerate development while maintaining high quality production standards [View posting at Generalist AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/generalist/e26eb203-2ca3-487a-818e-1c7759547a4b/application) ## About Generalist AI Builds embodied foundation models for dexterous robot manipulation, pairing massive real-world interaction data with cross-embodiment generalization for industrial and future home-use robots. 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