> 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. # Member of Applied AI Staff, Forward Deployed Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ddfcfcee96c3348e Pace posts a staff FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY with no pay posted. Expand to new use cases with large customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Pace](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pace) First seen Oct 24, 2026 · open on Rippling as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted New York, NY On-site Expand to new use cases with large customers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fddfcfcee96c3348e&placement=top) - [View posting at Pace](https://ats.rippling.com/pace/jobs/25903236-d357-42b2-b5e0-5c27abb93685) 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 (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **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 job is in New York, NY. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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Almost $400bn per year is spent on outsourcing in financial services every year. We’re here to change that working side-by-side with some of the largest companies in the world. ### Role We’re looking for a deployed engineer who will partner with our largest customers mission critical problems with Pace. ### Team characteristics The Pace team has a couple of defining characteristics: 1. **Integrity:** The most important thing is working with good people who want to have a massive impact on the world. Our team genuinely wants to do the best work of their careers and know it’ll take 5-10 years of focus to deliver. 2. **Ambition:** The ambition for this company is not just a good vertical AI business but a $100bn+ outcome across vertical services. We’re looking for people that raise that level of ambition. Often times this means they want to be the best at what they do, become leaders at scale or one day start their own company. Pace will be the best place to learn, deliver impact and advance your path to do something great. ### Responsibilities In this role specifically, the core responsibilities will include: 1. Working with our largest customers to expand to new use cases. 2. Building solutions to their largest problems in our product. 3. Shipping features, integrations, and evals in the codebase to unblock customers. 4. Collaborating with engineering to ship larger features and products for our customers. ### Trajectory Equally important is that we want to invest in *you* for the long-term. You’ll be leading the company not just in applied AI but across many potential paths: → Applied AI leadership → Product → GM of a business line We want to support you to grow at Pace and beyond for the long-term. Deployed engineering in particular is the ideal team for former or future founders as you’ll learn to both build and sell products in the enterprise. We’re a <20 person team based in-person in New York. We’re lucky to be perfectly positioned with leading customers and top investors to make a real impact on one of the largest industries in the world. [View posting at Pace](https://ats.rippling.com/pace/jobs/25903236-d357-42b2-b5e0-5c27abb93685) ## About Pace Pace builds AI agents that execute insurance workflows across documents, communication channels, and enterprise systems. 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