> 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. # Senior Scientific Data Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e21192b291ed4ac4 TetraScience posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Boston, MA, at $140,000–$200,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,864 postings with pay. A senior, hands-on forward deployed engineer owns technical relationships and delivers scientific data integrations and products for biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific customers. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [TetraScience](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tetrascience) First seen Oct 24, 2026 · open on Workable as of Nov 8, 2026 **$140,000–$200,000** + equity Boston, MA Full-time A senior, hands-on forward deployed engineer owns technical relationships and delivers scientific data integrations and products for biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific customers. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe21192b291ed4ac4&placement=top) - [View posting at TetraScience](https://apply.workable.com/j/A4C4F3E76C/apply) 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 $140K–$200K Below the median Midpoint $170K · median $190K This job $140K to $200K. 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**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **8+ years** Building data products as a Data Engineer or similar - **8+ years** Working in Python and SQL focused on data, integrations, and scientific applications Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 8+ years. How many do you have? 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We help the world’s leading life sciences firms turn fragmented scientific data into AI-native assets and scientific workflows that accelerate discovery, development, and manufacturing. TetraScience’s growing ecosystem of strategic partners includes NVIDIA, Databricks, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Snowflake, Google, and Microsoft. In connection with your candidacy, you will be asked to carefully review “The Tetra Way,” authored by our CEO, Patrick Grady; it is impossible to overstate the importance of this document, and you should take it literally as you decide whether our mission, culture, and expectations are right for you. ### What You Will Do You will join TetraScience's forward deployed teams as a senior, hands-on engineer. In this role, you will work directly with biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific companies, bringing advanced data and AI technologies into the labs that research, develop, and manufacture medicines. You will work alongside customer scientific, engineering, and IT teams to design, build, and ship integrations and data products on Tetra OS that serve scientific teams across the globe. You will also mentor other scientific data engineers, lead internal design sessions, and partner with Product Managers and Solution Architects to turn customer, product, and engineering objectives into commercialized solutions. - Act as a forward deployed engineer for a portfolio of biotech, pharmaceutical, and scientific customers. Own the technical relationship, understand their scientific workflows, and deliver solutions that move their programs forward. - Drive AI agents to design and build bidirectional integrations between Tetra OS and customer systems such as ELN, LIMS, MES, and process historians, including serverless push and pull pipelines, stateful connectors, and full stack data applications in Python and TypeScript. - Drive AI agents to design and build comprehensive data schemas and parsers for scientific data from R&D lab instruments, manufacturing, CRO, CDMO, ELN, and LIMS sources, across formats such as .xlsx, .pdf, .txt, .raw, .fid, and many other vendor binaries. - Deploy and test solutions in customer environments, including cloud, on-premises, and hybrid networks, and troubleshoot across the full stack when something breaks. - Work with product managers, solution architects, business analysts, data architects, and ML engineers to understand business requirements, recommend outcomes, and build best-in-class data products based on consensus. - Create and enforce designs with quality backed by comprehensive test automation to prove expected behaviors. - Lead process and technology improvements supporting product quality, developer experience, and platform capabilities. - Rally the team to finish Agile sprint commitments. Actively surface team inefficiencies and resolve them. - Drive results. Bring pragmatic urgency to resolving blockers and unclear requirements, and make things happen. - Provide mentorship to junior scientific data engineers and show leadership on every front. ### Requirements - 8+ years building data products as a Data Engineer or in a similar field. - 8+ years working in Python and SQL with a focus on data, integrations, and scientific applications. - Expertise in Python and working knowledge of JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, and React. - History leading customer-facing implementation projects across cross-functional teams, managing requirements, timelines, and delivery milestones. - Experience working with non-clinical data and lab scientists. - Familiarity with the biotech and pharmaceutical industry and regulated environments such as GxP. - Familiarity with networking, CI/CD, and full stack development. - Familiarity with cloud engineering on AWS, including core services such as S3, Lambda, ECS, SQS, SNS, EC2, and CloudWatch. - Excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the confidence to take control of project delivery. - Ability to quickly understand a highly technical product and communicate effectively with customers, product management, engineering leadership ### Benefits - Competitive compensation - Stock options in a VC-backed Series C company - 100% employer-paid benefits for all eligible employees and immediate family members - 401(k) - Unlimited paid time off (PTO) - Flexible working arrangements - Company-paid Life Insurance, LTD/STD The salary range for this position is $140,000 - $200,000 USD Annually. The salary range posted reflects our target baseline for this role. Final compensation is determined by a thorough evaluation of factors including the candidate’s specific experience, localized market data, and internal team equity. 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