> 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. # Founding Forward Deployed Engineer Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/ee5909d87ab7e7aa Clera posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in New York, NY, at $180,000–$250,000 base, above the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,865 postings with pay. Own end-to-end customer deployments at an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from data access and warehouse mapping through customer-facing signals and workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 9, 2026. - [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) Posted Nov 7, 2026 by Clera · open on Ashby as of Nov 9, 2026 **$180,000–$250,000** New York, NY On-site Full-time Own end-to-end customer deployments at an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from data access and warehouse mapping through customer-facing signals and workflows. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Fee5909d87ab7e7aa&placement=top) - [View posting at Clera](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Clera/81f80a6b-9e8b-4c95-ba2c-353415d008fc/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 $180K–$250K Above the median Midpoint $215K · median $190K This job $180K to $250K. Senior FDE postings, 1,865 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**: Configuration only - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** technical customer-facing role Background - **Solutions and customer engineering** Visa - **No visa sponsorship** ### 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 New York, NY. 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**: New York, NY - **Work arrangement**: On-site - **Remote work restrictions**: On-site in New York City, New York. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Visa sponsorship**: Not available - **Pay**: ## More like this [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/7d45a70feeb21283) San Francisco, CA On-site 3mo ago Pay not posted [Clera](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/17886955cf8079ec) San Francisco, CA · New York, NY Hybrid New · 2d ago $130,000–$215,000 [Sylvan Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sylvan-labs) ### [Founding Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/085ae49f7e30a27e) New York, NY On-site 1mo ago $180,000–$250,000 - [Other jobs at Clera (4)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/clera) ## The job description from Clera Posted by Clera on Nov 7, 2026 ### About the Role Own customer deployments for an early-stage B2B SaaS company, from initial data access through a trusted system that delivers measurable business outcomes. This founding role combines data engineering, applied AI, and customer collaboration, while building reusable tools and practices to make future deployments more effective. ### What You'll Do - Work with customer revenue and operations leaders to understand business goals and identify valuable problems to solve. - Lead customer onboarding, scope data access, and map undocumented warehouse schemas to business concepts. - Interview customer data and business teams to establish consistent definitions and validate data mappings. - Build customer-facing signals and workflows, including custom agent configurations, and diagnose issues with their outputs. - Define success measures with customers and build analysis that demonstrates the impact of deployments. - Turn deployment learnings into reusable validation frameworks, evaluation harnesses, and mapping tools. ### What We're Looking For - At least 3 years of experience in a technical customer-facing role, such as forward deployed engineering, solutions engineering, or software engineering with substantial customer engagement. - An engineering or data science background, with applied statistics or modeling experience and a degree in statistics, mathematics, computer science, or a comparable quantitative field. - Strong SQL and dbt skills, plus experience navigating undocumented data warehouses and resolving inconsistent business definitions. - Applied data science knowledge, including distributions, seasonality, validation design, and calibration. - Experience building custom agent setups beyond default implementations and defining metrics to demonstrate customer outcomes. - Experience at an early-stage startup, or a combination of large-company experience with startup or founder experience. Founder experience is valued. - A detail-oriented, evidence-driven approach and comfort with ambiguity and end-to-end ownership. ### Compensation & Benefits Base salary: $180,000 to $250,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available. ### Location On-site in New York City, New York. 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