> 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 (Ayama) Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e3bc42063d823f84 AI Fund posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in SF Bay Area with no pay posted. Own customer deployments end-to-end: daily operations, training, configuration, incident triage Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [AI Fund](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ai-fund) Posted May 11, 2026 by AI Fund · open on Lever as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted SF Bay Area +1 Hybrid Full-time Own customer deployments end-to-end: daily operations, training, configuration, incident triage - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe3bc42063d823f84&placement=top) - [View posting at AI Fund](https://jobs.lever.co/AIFund/d3fa4566-9f4d-4034-9e27-0b8349211210/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 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 Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** hands-on software engineering Background - **Software engineering** Visa - **No visa sponsorship** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 5+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in SF Bay Area. Could you work there? The posting says no visa sponsorship. Do you need one? 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**: SF Bay Area · San Francisco Bay Area, California - **Work arrangement**: Hybrid - **Remote work restrictions**: Western US, within 30 miles of a major airport with daily flights to San Francisco - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Visa sponsorship**: Not available - **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated ## More like this [Blue Matter](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/blue-matter) ### [AI Engineer / Senior AI Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/3b3fb597face2eac) South San Francisco, CA 2w ago $120,000–$170,000 [Bobyard](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/bobyard) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer ](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/5e4b3736d20917a6) San Francisco, CA On-site 5mo ago $130,000–$165,000 [Varick-Agents](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/varick-agents) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/c0e43d77dbd84030) San Francisco, CA On-site 6w ago $175,000–$250,000 - [Other jobs at AI Fund (1)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/ai-fund) ## The job description from AI Fund Posted by AI Fund on May 11, 2026 Ayama has partnered with Andrew Ng's AI Fund and a Fortune 500 energy leader to use AI to reshape how $10+ Trillion of heavy assets operate, are managed, and are maintained. With electrification driving rapid growth in energy and reshoring accelerating the build out of U.S. electronics and IT manufacturing, the company plans to close critical gaps by raising asset uptime & output as well as staff productivity. Ayama is looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to be the technical face of Ayama at our customers. The Forward Deployed Engineer is customer-facing every day. You work with customer end users and customer IT teams primarily remotely, with periodic on-site visits to customer operational sites for deeper engagement, training, and incident response. This is a 100% hands-on role split between customer engagement and code. You write Python and SQL daily, debug across systems you didn't build, configure Ayama for each customer's operational reality, and translate field observations back into product decisions. This is a full-time hybrid role located in the Bay Area. Additional locations will be considered in the Western US as long as you live within 30 miles of a major airport with daily flights to San Francisco. Some travel to customer sites will be required. There is no relocation package budgeted for this role. ### Responsibilities for the Role Include: - Own customer deployments end-to-end at the technical working level: daily operations, training, configuration, incident triage - Configure Ayama for new customers: enterprise system integrations, operational data mappings, asset hierarchy, customer-specific workflows - Debug customer-affecting issues end-to-end: read logs, trace through pipelines, patch in production, file precise root-cause reports for engineering - Scope and execute pilot deployments as Ayama brings on new customers - Translate field reality into structured product feedback that engineering can act on directly - Build customer-specific scripts, integration adapters, and small tools that don't belong in core product code ### Requirements For the Role Include: - 5+ years of hands-on software engineering experience - Daily Python fluency (Django/FastAPI preferred, transferable from Flask or other modern Python frameworks) - Strong SQL: joins, aggregations, window functions, and reading query plans - Track record of customer-facing engineering: deployments, integrations, or incident response with customers in the room - Comfort debugging production issues in code you didn't write - Direct, structured communication: you can write a clear bug report and explain a technical issue to a non-engineer - Cloud experience (GCP preferred) and at least one shipped integration with an enterprise system (ERP, CRM, CMMS, or similar) ### Nice To Haves Include: - Prior Forward Deployed Engineer, Implementation Engineer, or Solutions Engineer experience at enterprise or B2B SaaS companies - ERP / CMMS integration experience - Industrial or operations domain background: heavy assets, telemetry, asset management - Background in a physical-engineering discipline (mechanical, electrical, industrial) ### Why Join Ayama: - **Exclusive Ecosystem:** Unparalleled access to AI Fund's experts and Dr. Andrew Ng's network of AI luminaries. - **Real-World Impact:** We are solving critical performance gaps in energy supply while demand driven by global electrification skyrockets. - **Growth Path:** First role on what will become Ayama's customer engineering function. Lead and hire that team as the company scales. The compensation package will include a base salary plus equity along with a full-benefits package. **Candidate must be eligible to work in the in the United States without sponsorship.** [View posting at AI Fund](https://jobs.lever.co/AIFund/d3fa4566-9f4d-4034-9e27-0b8349211210/apply) ## About AI Fund Venture studio founded by Andrew Ng that co-founds AI startups with entrepreneurs, providing early-stage capital, product and technology support, recruiting, and company-building help from idea through launch. 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