> 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/de081d160e018d3a Scaled Cognition posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Mountain View, CA with no pay posted. Build and deploy customer-facing AI agents across domains including finance, healthcare, legal, and operations, working closely with customers, research, product, and engineering. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Scaled Cognition](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scaled-cognition) Posted Jan 29, 2026 by Scaled Cognition · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Mountain View, CA On-site Full-time Build and deploy customer-facing AI agents across domains including finance, healthcare, legal, and operations, working closely with customers, research, product, and engineering. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fde081d160e018d3a&placement=top) - [View posting at Scaled Cognition](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scaled-cognition/60490c44-de4d-49e9-b0d7-42ce4163382c/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 (not covered) 2. Proof of concept (not covered) 3. Implementation 4. Operations - **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 Mountain View, 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**: Mountain View, CA - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Employment type**: Full-time ## More like this [Distyl AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/distyl-ai) ### [AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/2625d8a6aa23c2b2) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid 4mo ago $180,000–$250,000 [Perfect Venue](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/perfect-venue) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/06b7cbfa8e3707d4) San Francisco, CA On-site 3w ago $110,000–$140,000 [Titan](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/titan) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/96694cce5cd5c7c7) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY On-site 3w ago $180,000–$480,000 ## The job description from Scaled Cognition Posted by Scaled Cognition on Jan 29, 2026 Scaled Cognition is the world’s only model lab dedicated exclusively to customer experience and pioneering agentic models purpose-built for reliable action-taking enterprise applications. Backed by Khosla Ventures, the company’s flagship Agentic Pretrained Transformer (APT) eliminates hallucinations, enforces enterprise policies and increases reliability in real-world CX workflows. Founded by serial AI entrepreneurs, former Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Conversational AI Dan Roth, and UC Berkeley AI Professor Dan Klein, and built by a team of world-class PhD researchers and engineers, Scaled Cognition advances the science of agentic AI to deliver safe, policy-aligned automation that enterprises can trust. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll have significant autonomy to build, test, and deploy AI agents that solve real problems across industries. You'll work directly with customers to understand their challenges, collaborate with our research team to push the boundaries of what's possible, and partner with product and engineering to ship solutions that work. This isn't about prompt engineering or wrapping existing LLMs. You'll be working with a novel model architecture that reasons deterministically—building the future of reliable AI agents from the ground up. As a *Forward Deployed Engineer* at Scaled Cognition you will: - Design and build AI agents for customers across finance, healthcare, legal, operations, and more—tailored to their specific domain requirements - Work with the research team to expand our models' reasoning capabilities and add new domains of expertise - Partner directly with customers to iterate on implementations, gathering feedback that shapes our platform roadmap - Build robust evaluation frameworks to rigorously test agent performance and reliability across edge cases - Create reusable patterns and tools that make it easier to deploy agents in new domains Example projects could include: - A multilingual banking support agent that handles account inquiries, financial transactions, and compliance workflows across 12+ languages - A retail agent that manages complex product customization requests, inventory checks, and order modifications in real-time - A telecommunications agent that diagnoses hardware issues, walks customers through troubleshooting steps, and escalates to technicians when needed You might be the right person for the job if you: - Love working directly with customers and translating their needs into technical solutions - Are excited about building agentic systems and exploring what's possible at the frontier of AI capabilities - Thrive in ambiguous environments where you have the autonomy to define the path forward Key Qualifications: - Have 3+ years of experience as a software engineer, with a track record of shipping production systems - Strong Python skills and familiarity with modern AI agent development - Previous experience in a customer-facing technical role (solutions engineer, forward deployed engineer, etc.) [View posting at Scaled Cognition](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/scaled-cognition/60490c44-de4d-49e9-b0d7-42ce4163382c/application) ## About Scaled Cognition Scaled Cognition builds AI models and agent software for enterprise customer experience and other policy-sensitive workflows. 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