> 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 Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/d1af269a9dbe0e40 Flow Engineering posts a FDE role to prove the product works before the sale in San Francisco, CA, at $165,000–$230,000 base, level with the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. Forward Deployed Engineers bridge sales, engineering, and customers for next-generation hardware teams, owning technical evaluations, deployments, enablement, and adoption. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Flow Engineering](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flow-engineering) Posted Feb 9, 2026 by Flow Engineering · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 **$165,000–$230,000** + equity San Francisco, CA On-site Full-time Forward Deployed Engineers bridge sales, engineering, and customers for next-generation hardware teams, owning technical evaluations, deployments, enablement, and adoption. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fd1af269a9dbe0e40&placement=top) - [View posting at Flow Engineering](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering/ed05415f-c172-4851-9392-1d97e0fd2968/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 $165K–$230K Level with the median Midpoint $198K · median $190K This job $165K to $230K. Senior FDE postings, 1,864 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Proves it works before the sale Balance **Mixed** Project stages 1. Pre-sales 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **Coding**: Prototypes and scripts - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** hardware, mechanical, or systems engineering role *Preferred* Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in San Francisco, CA. Could you work there? 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**: San Francisco, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [LangChain](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/langchain) ### [Deployed Engineer (Early Career- SF)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/cf677e9e9ca98360) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago $160,000–$185,000 · OTE [HackerRank](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hackerrank) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/4dae1501bc8f76a6) Santa Clara, CA · Mountain View, CA Hybrid 6w ago $160,000–$185,000 [Deep Infra](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/deep-infra) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/1aec0681eb976cc3) Palo Alto, CA 2mo ago $150,000–$195,000 - [Other jobs at Flow Engineering (2)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/flow-engineering) ## The job description from Flow Engineering Posted by Flow Engineering on Feb 9, 2026 ### About Flow Flow is reinventing how humanity builds its most complex machines. We are *the* tool for complex systems engineering used by next gen teams building the future of space, defense, automotive, aviation and robotics. If a company is aiming for the Moon, developing fusion power, or establishing the first interplanetary colony, they’re likely using Flow to get there. We’re backed by Sequoia Capital with angel investors including Patrick & John Collison (Stripe), David Helgason (Unity) and Kyle Parrish (Figma). ### About the Role As one of our first forward deployed engineers, you’ll sit at the intersection of sales, engineering and customers: understanding how next-gen hardware teams build, guiding deployments, and supporting adoption, ensuring customers have the insight and tools to achieve meaningful outcomes. This is an ideal role for someone who started their career on hardware engineering programs, then discovered they love working with customers to solve their problems. This role will enable incredible hardware companies to reinvent how they work. ### What You’ll Do - **Owning the technical win: **You will own a valuable part of the sales process (custom demos, trail/POC execution). This is paramount to winning new business for Flow. - **Understand and map customer workflows: **Work with customers to deeply understand their current workflow, pain points, and priorities, and showcase tailored solutions to proactively address those. - **Run technical enablement sessions: **Identify and demonstrate how Flow can transform the customer’s development process through workshops, training, and joint solutions sessions. - **Shape our roadmap: **Act as the link between our customers and engineering to develop new innovative solutions. You will be key in building the future roadmap of our product by acting as the technical team’s eyes and ears in the field. - **Build the GTM foundation: **Help build and define Flow’s activation methodology for our most strategic customers. You will help design our technical GTM playbook, implementation guides, and training materials for future hires. ### About You - **Strong software engineering fundamentals:** Including designing, testing, and operating services at scale in a cloud environment. - **Structured storyteller: **You can turn complex ideas into simple messages and make them engaging to both engineers and executives. - **Builder mentality: **You want to help define how a world-class technical GTM motion is built from the ground up. ### Nice to have - **You get systems engineering: **3+ years in a hardware, mechanical or systems engineering role. You know how complex machines are actually developed. - **Sales experience**: managed customer relationships in either pre-sales or post-sales engagements. Closing experience is an extra bonus! - **Industry experience:** Experience in industries such as space, energy, robotics, or advanced manufacturing. - Experience working with engineering tools like Jira, Confluence, PLM, MBSE or legacy requirements tools. [View posting at Flow Engineering](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/flowengineering/ed05415f-c172-4851-9392-1d97e0fd2968/application) ## Similar jobs [Hightouch](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/hightouch) ### [Forward Deployed Product Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/582d222c53e6731f) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA Remote 5mo ago $175,000–$230,000 [IFS](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ifs) ### [Pre-Sales Forward Deployed Engineer - IFS Loops](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/299d0f4d19ba24b2) Palo Alto, CA 11d ago $190,000–$230,000 · OTE [Greptile](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/greptile) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9ea315669e7fc622) San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $140,000–$220,000 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Deployment Strategist, Space Systems Command](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7bd71aa29083eac6) Los Angeles, CA On-site 4mo ago $203,200–$254,000 [Impiricus](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/impiricus) ### [Product Solutions Architect](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fb3adfa1c242b58) New York, NY · Atlanta, GA Remote 2mo ago $170,000–$210,000 - [Compare senior FDE salary ranges](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary/senior) - [Similar jobs in SF Bay Area](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?region=sf-bay-area) - [Similar jobs that prove the product works before the sale](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?role=presales) Hiring at Flow Engineering and want this page changed or removed? Email info@nextmove.md and we take it down. Employer postings · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)