> 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. # Full Stack Engineer, Forward Deployed Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/e59b3af0b5b72287 Applied Computing posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Houston, TX with no pay posted. Deploy and operationalise Orbital’s full-stack applications in customer environments, including cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and air-gapped infrastructure. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Applied Computing](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/applied-computing) Posted Jun 16, 2026 by Applied Computing · open on Teamtailor as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Houston, TX Deploy and operationalise Orbital’s full-stack applications in customer environments, including cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and air-gapped infrastructure. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fe59b3af0b5b72287&placement=top) - [View posting at Applied Computing](https://appliedcomputing.teamtailor.com/jobs/7918230-full-stack-engineer-forward-deployed) 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 Travel **Required, amount not stated** - **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 Houston, TX. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. 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We’re live across oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemicals, working towards our mission: sustainable abundance for a growing planet. The hydrocarbon industry keeps the world running. But its complexity has left operators tied to legacy systems, making critical decisions on less than 10% of available data. We built Orbital to change that. It’s a foundation model built specifically for energy that lets companies use AI at scale, harnessing all of their operational data and optimising in real time for any metric. Decisions get faster, operations get safer, and carbon intensity falls. We’ve raised over $32 million, including one of the largest seed rounds for an AI company in the UK. We’re just getting started As a Forward Deployed Full Stack Engineer, your job is to make Orbital work in the real world. You will deploy, configure, customise, and operationalise Orbital’s applications inside customer environments, spanning cloud, on-premise, hybrid, and air-gapped infrastructure. You are not building generic platform features for abstraction. You are ensuring Orbital is usable, integrated, secure, and production-ready inside complex enterprise ecosystems. You’ll work directly with customer IT, OT, data, and engineering teams adapting interfaces, extending APIs, integrating identity systems, and troubleshooting deployments live in production. **Operating Context** Forward Deployed Engineers operate in pods of three alongside: • ML / AI Engineers • Data Engineers Each pod delivers 2–3 customer deployments per quarter, owning application deployment, integration, customisation, and operational reliability. You will be required to travel. Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript (React, Node.js) and back-end frameworks (FastAPI, Express, Django). • Solid working knowledge of Python for scripting, APIs, and data integration. • Experience building containerised microservices (Docker, Kubernetes). • Familiarity with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ). • Familiarity working with databases like PostgresSQL etc. • Proficiency with Linux environments (deployment, debugging, performance tuning). • Bonus: exposure to time-series/industrial data and operator-facing dashboards. • Bonus: exposure working as a software engineer in oil and gas or energy environments • Strong troubleshooting mindset in production systems. **What Success Looks Like** • Orbital applications are fully deployed in customer environments. • Interfaces are actively used by operators and engineers. • Identity, security, and infra integrations work seamlessly. • Deployments run reliably across cloud and on-prem systems. • Customer-specific extensions are delivered rapidly when required. • Application telemetry and monitoring are production-grade. 1) Application Deployment & Customisation • Deploy Orbital’s full-stack applications into customer environments (cloud, on-prem, hybrid). • Configure customer-specific application environments, networking, and access layers. • Customise UI components, workflows, and feature configurations per customer use case. • Implement customer branding, report templates, and UX adaptations. • Ensure applications remain usable in control rooms, engineering offices, and operational settings. 2) Frontend Engineering (Customer-Facing Systems) • Develop real-time streaming in collaboration with frontend engineer (in Svelte / SvelteKit) dashboards for AI inference and anomaly monitoring. • Implement chat interfaces integrated with LLM services. • Configure WebSocket pipelines for live model outputs. • Adapt UI/UX for industrial workflows (operators, APC engineers, technologists). 3) Backend Services & API Integration • Deploy and extend FastAPI microservices. • Configure and customise REST and GraphQL (Strawberry) APIs. • Implement customer-specific business logic and integrations. • Connect application services to ML inference endpoints and data services. • Extend APIs when customer systems require bespoke contracts. 4) Identity, Security & Enterprise Integration • Integrate Orbital with customer identity providers: o SSO o SAML o OAuth • Implement role-based access controls. • Configure tenant isolation and enterprise security requirements. • Work with customer IT to satisfy firewall, network, and compliance constraints. 5) Database & Application Data Layer • Deploy and manage PostgreSQL schemas. • Run Alembic migrations across environments. • Optimise queries for production performance. • Configure customer-specific schema mappings where required. 6) Infrastructure & DevOps (Application Layer) • Own application deployment infrastructure: o Kubernetes o Helm charts o Docker services • Manage application-level Terraform / Terragrunt provisioning. • Configure CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions). • Deploy services via container orchestration. • Troubleshoot scaling, ingress, and service routing issues. 7) Observability & Production Reliability • Configure application monitoring via Grafana dashboards. • Implement logging, alerting, and SLA monitoring. • Support Prometheus metrics integrations. • Debug production incidents in customer environments. 8) Customer Deployment & Forward Engineering • Work directly with customer IT / OT / Engineering teams. • Deploy into air-gapped and tightly firewalled networks. • Troubleshoot infrastructure, networking, and application failures. • Build customer-specific extensions when core product configs are insufficient. • Support onboarding, upgrades, and operational handover. 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