> 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/da8fc44ab966dc80 Fastino Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in San Francisco, CA with no pay posted. Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with customer engineering teams to ship Fastino language-model solutions into production environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Fastino Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fastino-labs) Posted Oct 19, 2026 by Fastino Labs · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted San Francisco, CA Hybrid Full-time Forward Deployed Engineer embedded with customer engineering teams to ship Fastino language-model solutions into production environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fda8fc44ab966dc80&placement=top) - [View posting at Fastino Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fastino-ai/668bfeb2-fec4-4cc3-8049-6473c127c31a/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 Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 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 (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** software engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 3+ years. How many do you have? 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**: Hybrid - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Voltai](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/voltai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7e0de1aebd783a58) San Francisco, CA · Atherton, CA · +1 more Hybrid 3mo ago Pay not posted [OpenClaw Foundation](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openclaw-foundation) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bc34865d20736808) San Francisco, CA On-site 4mo ago $200,000–$300,000 [ResolveAI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/resolveai) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/9fbf9861d61dda44) San Francisco, CA On-site 4w ago Pay not posted ## The job description from Fastino Labs Posted by Fastino Labs on Oct 19, 2026 ### Forward Deployed Engineer Full-time | San Francisco ### About Fastino - We're building specialized, efficient language models that beat big general models on the tasks that matter. Our team includes alumni from Google Research, Apple, Stanford, and Cambridge. - Our open source GLiNER models have been downloaded 50M+ times and are used by teams at NVIDIA, Meta, and Airbnb. - We've raised $25M (covered in TechCrunch) from Microsoft, Khosla Ventures, Insight Partners, GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke, Docker CEO Scott Johnston, and others. ### The Role You'll be the engineer who sits inside our customers' stacks and gets them running in production. If you like hard technical problems and talking to the people who have them, this is for you. ### What You'll Work On - Embed with customer engineering teams to scope, build, and deploy Fastino models into their production systems. - Write real code: integrations, data pipelines, eval harnesses, and services that run on customer infra (cloud, VPC, on prem). - Fine-tune and evaluate models on customer data, and prove they beat the baseline on accuracy, latency, and cost. - Debug the messy stuff: auth, networking, GPU and inference performance, data quality, weird edge cases. - Own the technical side of deals from first call through go-live, working closely with our founders and AEs. - Turn what you build in the field into reusable tools, reference architectures, and SDK improvements. - Bring customer feedback straight to research and product, and push for what customers actually need. ### What We're Looking For - BS or MS in Computer Science or a related field (or equivalent experience). - 3+ years as a software engineer, ideally with some time in a customer facing role (FDE, solutions engineering, consulting, or similar). - Strong in Python. Comfortable with at least one of TypeScript, Go, or Rust. - Hands on experience shipping LLM or ML systems to production: APIs, fine-tuning, evals, RAG, or agents. - Solid with cloud and infra basics: AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, networking, and security. - Clear communicator who can explain tradeoffs to an engineer and a VP in the same meeting. - Ownership mindset. You'd rather fix it yourself than file a ticket. - Bonus: experience with GLiNER, NER, or other information extraction models. - Bonus: early stage startup experience. - Willing to travel to customer sites as needed. [View posting at Fastino Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fastino-ai/668bfeb2-fec4-4cc3-8049-6473c127c31a/application) ## About Fastino Labs Fastino Labs builds open-weight language models and tools for fine-tuning, inference, and production AI workflows. 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