> 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, AI Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/dec8d400dcdba3a8 Nominal posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY and 4 more with no pay posted. Embeds with hardware engineering teams to build agentic workflows that perform real engineering work, then turns successful customer-specific patterns into reusable product capabilities. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Nominal](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nominal) Posted Oct 6, 2026 by Nominal · open on Gem as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted New York, NY +4 Full-time Embeds with hardware engineering teams to build agentic workflows that perform real engineering work, then turns successful customer-specific patterns into reusable product capabilities. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fdec8d400dcdba3a8&placement=top) - [View posting at Nominal](https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDoGOUrpA0CC9Fhyp22pw3WA) 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 - **4+ years** software engineering Background - **Software engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 4+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · +3 more. Could you work in one of these? Which of these have you used in production? 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[What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: New York, NY · San Francisco, CA · Los Angeles, CA · Austin, TX · Seattle, WA - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Stripe](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/stripe) ### [Solutions Engineer, AI Build Team ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/129f5b37d0e44645) New York, NY · US remote Remote 3w ago $239,900–$359,900 [Provectus](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/provectus) ### [Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer / Solutions Architect (GenAI, AWS)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c087a50625ed071a) New York, NY Hybrid 3mo ago $180,000–$200,000 [Medeloop](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/medeloop) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/731a29fd03376be6) New York, NY · San Francisco, CA 4w ago Pay not posted - [Other jobs at Nominal (5)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/nominal) ## The job description from Nominal Posted by Nominal on Oct 6, 2026 ### About Nominal Our mission is to accelerate how the world engineers new hardware. Nominal's connected test and operations platform powers the world's most advanced hardware programs and its most ambitious startups, from spacecraft, racecars, and autonomous vehicles to next-generation defense and energy programs. Our customers include Anduril, Shield AI, Hermeus, Albedo, Shinkei, and Pratt Miller Motorsports, as well as U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force programs. Now we're expanding across the entire hardware lifecycle, building the foundation, AI-native applications, and agents that accelerate innovators' work and change what's possible to build. We're backed by Sequoia, General Catalyst, Founders Fund, Lux Capital, and Lightspeed, and our team comes from SpaceX, Apple, Palantir, Anduril, Applied Intuition, and other leading companies. ### About Hardware Intelligence We're the team behind Nominal's agents, AI-native applications, and MCP, and its forward-leaning AI bets. Our mission is to unlock the bottlenecks of the hardware lifecycle with AI. Our agents reason over physical reality, from high-rate telemetry and test campaigns to designs and simulations, where real test results are the ground truth their work is checked against. We believe opinionated AI, built for the real work of hardware programs, will change how the world engineers. We're collaborative, iterative, and high-agency, and we're human-centered and customer-focused. We build with the newest AI tools every day, and because those tools keep changing, so do we: we stay curious and keep looking for the better way. Our team spans data science and ML, distributed systems, search, and knowledge systems, and we obsess over how agents can be genuinely useful to the engineers who rely on them. ### The Role: As an AI Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll embed with hardware teams, build agentic workflows and skills on Nominal, and bring back the patterns that should become product. ### 💼 What You'll Do: - Embed with hardware engineering teams at build-partner programs, on site and alongside them. - Build custom agentic workflows and skills for each partner's programs that do real engineering work: turning requirements and test plans into checks, running analyses, and investigating issues. - Spot the patterns across customers and bring them back as product: new skills, agent capabilities, and eval tasks. - Win build partners by proving value: measured before-and-after results on real programs. - Be the technical voice of the customer inside the Hardware Intelligence team. ### 🚀 What you'll bring: - 4+ years as a software engineer, with strong Python and data skills. - Hands-on experience building agentic workflows: tool use, prompting, skills, and checking whether they actually work. - Comfort in front of customers: you can run a working session with senior engineers and earn their trust. - A builder's instinct for what's reusable and what's one-off. - Willingness to travel to customer sites. - You build with modern AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) every day, and stay curious and open to better ways of working. The tools keep changing, and so do we. ### ⚡️ Nice to have: - You've been a test, flight test, controls, or hardware engineer before moving into software. - You've been a forward-deployed or solutions engineer at an AI or data company. - You've turned a one-off customer build into a reusable product feature. - You hold an active security clearance, or can obtain one. ### Benefits/Perks - 🏥 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision insurance - 🏖️ Unlimited PTO and sick leave - 🍽️ Free lunch, snacks, and coffee - 🚀 Professional Development Stipend - ✈️ Annual company retreat *All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin.* ITAR Requirements *To conform to U.S. Government export regulations, applicant must be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State. Learn more about the ITAR * *here* *.* [View posting at Nominal](https://jobs.gem.com/nominal/am9icG9zdDoGOUrpA0CC9Fhyp22pw3WA) ## About Nominal Nominal provides connected cloud and edge software for hardware teams to capture, analyze, automate, and operate mission-critical tests. 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