> 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. # GTM Customer Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d07a2a79ab832de6 Scout AI posts a FDE role to lead deployment teams in US, at $150,000–$180,000 base, below the staff+ FDE median of $225,000 across 388 postings with pay. Leads Scout AI’s customer engineering function while serving as a technical advisor to customers and partners deploying the Fury robotic foundation model. Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026. - [Scout AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scout-ai) Posted Oct 7, 2026 by Scout AI · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 6, 2026 **$150,000–$180,000** + equity US Remote Full-time Leads Scout AI’s customer engineering function while serving as a technical advisor to customers and partners deploying the Fury robotic foundation model. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fd07a2a79ab832de6&placement=top) - [View posting at Scout AI](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scoutai/jobs/5446932008) 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 $150K–$180K Below the median Midpoint $165K · median $225K This job $150K to $180K. Staff+ FDE postings, 388 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $197K to $262K, median $225K. ### The work Leads the deployment team Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Prototypes and scripts - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Staff+ - **Role**: People manager ### What they ask for Experience - **4+ years** Technical roles such as Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** - **Forward deployed engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a staff-level 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**: US - **Work arrangement**: Remote - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated - **Pay**: ## More like this [Huron](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/huron) ### [AICC Senior Technical Lead, Forward Deployed Engineering (Senior Manager)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7e288c85b9241b78) Chicago, IL Remote 4mo ago $165,000–$190,000 [Qualified Health](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/qualified-health) ### [Director, Data Modernization](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e6420374ec05b274) US Remote 4mo ago $190,000–$230,000 [Thomson Reuters](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/thomson-reuters) ### [Senior Manager, Forward Deployed Engineering – Tax & Audit](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d9f81e00f9c3d172) Brooklyn, NY · New York, NY · +4 more Hybrid New · 6d ago $118,400–$253,000 ## The job description from Scout AI Posted by Scout AI on Oct 7, 2026 The future of defense will be decided by those who field intelligent machines at scale. At Scout AI, we’re developing Fury, the first robotic foundation model for defense, to give U.S. forces overwhelming, adaptable, and autonomous power across every domain. Fury enables human operators to command fleets of robots through natural language, and empowers those machines to sense, decide, and act together as one. This mission will ask everything of us: urgency, precision, and relentless work. **The Role** ** **We’re looking for a GTM Customer Engineer Manager to become a trusted technical advisor to the customers and partners adopting Fury into their core missions and products. You’ll work closely with customer engineering, product, and operations teams as they field new capabilities powered by Fury: advising on architecture design decisions, developing evaluation frameworks, and guiding customers through the most cutting-edge implementation patterns for foundation models — while building and leading Scout AI’s customer engineering function as we scale. Working closely with our Sales, Product, and Engineering teams, you’ll guide a focused portfolio of customers from technical discovery through successful deployment, combining deep engineering expertise with customer-facing skills to help customers unlock the full potential of Fury while maintaining our high standards for safety and reliability. We’re a startup. You’ll be moving fast, context-switching daily, and helping define the culture and process as we go. This is a rare opportunity to come in early and architect the future of defense. ### Responsibilities - Serve as a specialist technical advisor to Scout AI customers as they deploy new capabilities enabled by Fury — from discovery through deployment — coordinating internally across multiple teams to drive customer success - Partner with account executives and solutions architects to translate customer mission and business requirements into technical solutions - Influence technical architecture decisions and customer product strategy by developing customized pilots, prototypes, and evaluation suites - Lead hands-on technical workshops and reviews with customer engineering teams - Recruit, mentor, and lead a growing team of customer engineers, defining the playbooks and processes that scale the GTM engineering function - Identify common design patterns and contribute insights back to our Product and Engineering teams - Create scalable public and internal assets documenting the latest prompting, evaluation, agentic, and architecture techniques for Scout AI foundation models - Maintain strong knowledge of the latest developments in LLM, VLM, VLA, and robotic foundation model capabilities, implementation patterns, and AI product development stacks - Travel occasionally to customer sites for workshops, implementation support, and building relationships - Attend conferences, lead speaking engagements, and write blog posts and white papers on topics surrounding the AI and autonomy space ### Qualifications - 4+ years of experience in technical roles such as Customer Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager with a desire to work closely with customers; former technical founders are also encouraged to apply - Production experience with LLMs, VLMs, and/or VLAs including advanced prompt engineering, agent development and frameworks, evaluation frameworks, transcript analysis, MCP, and deployment at scale - Strong programming skills with proficiency in JSON, Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications - Ability to navigate ambiguity and execute across domains with intellectual openness, finding simple solutions to complex problems - High-cooperation mindset for cross-organizational collaboration, balancing competing priorities with integrity - Passion for advancing safe, beneficial AI systems through creative technical applications - Exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders while maintaining a low ego and collaborative approach - At least a Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience - Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities - Passion about defense of the United States and its allies - May be expected to obtain and hold a U.S. Top Secret security clearance We encourage you to apply even if you do not believe you meet every single qualification. Not all strong candidates will meet every single qualification as listed. ### Why Join Scout - Work on the world’s most important frontier, ensuring U.S. and allied dominance in the age of intelligent machines - Be a core part of a team building the first defense-specific robotic foundation model - Collaborate with some of the top engineers in autonomy, AI, and national security - See your work deployed on real systems - Help define the future of intelligent defense systems - Backed by Draper Associates, Booz Allen Ventures, and other top investors ### Benefits - Competitive base salary and bonus - Meaningful equity - Premium medical, dental, and vision plans with $0 paycheck contribution - Competitive PTO and company holiday calendar - Catered lunch daily and fully stocked kitchen - EV charging - Relocation assistance (depending on role eligibility) The stated salary range below represents an estimated base pay only and reflects consideration of multiple compensation factors. Final salary offers may differ depending on factors including, but not limited to, relevant experience or training background, specialized skills, and business needs. Most full-time positions also include highly competitive equity awards, which form part of Scout AI's overall compensation package. In addition, Scout AI provides comprehensive, top-tier benefits to full-time employees. US Salary Range $150,000—$180,000 USD [View posting at Scout AI](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/scoutai/jobs/5446932008) ## About Scout AI First foundation model for autonomous defense robotics (Fury), enabling natural language control of multi-domain robotic fleets for U.S. military. 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