> 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 Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/f99fed3ab01cfc35 Pramaana Labs posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Palo Alto, CA with no pay posted. A Forward Deployed Engineer partners with customers, domain experts, researchers, and engineers to turn complex rules into verifiable AI workflows and production systems. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Pramaana Labs](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/pramaana-labs) Posted Nov 4, 2026 by Pramaana Labs · open on Ashby as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Palo Alto, CA On-site Full-time A Forward Deployed Engineer partners with customers, domain experts, researchers, and engineers to turn complex rules into verifiable AI workflows and production systems. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Ff99fed3ab01cfc35&placement=top) - [View posting at Pramaana Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pramaana-labs/07e93dce-ec07-4ce8-b4b1-e166f3b9c2bc/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 Not posted Junior FDE postings, 26 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $117K to $157K, median $135K. ### The work Builds what the customer runs Balance **Mostly building** Project stages 1. Pre-sales (not covered) 2. Proof of concept 3. Implementation 4. Operations (not covered) - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Junior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a junior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Palo Alto, CA. 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 turn complex human knowledge, including tax codes, legal rules, clinical guidelines and security protocols, into formal representations that support reasoning people can inspect and check. Our architecture pairs models trained to formalize and reason with a symbolic world model encoded in Lean 4. Founded in 2025 and headquartered in Palo Alto, Pramaana brings together researchers and formal methods experts from Google, DeepMind, and Glean. ### The Role The hardest questions in AI emerge when systems meet messy reality. Can ambiguous, exception-filled rules be formalized faithfully? Can we distinguish what is proved from what is assumed, and make the results reliable enough to use? As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll work where applied research, software engineering and customer problems meet. Alongside Pramaana engineers and researchers, you'll prototype and evaluate verifiable AI workflows, build tools and integrations, and help take promising systems into production. You'll investigate failures and turn lessons from the field into improvements to our research, models and core technology. We're looking for engineers who think from first principles, learn fast and care deeply about making AI reasoning verifiable. You don't need years of enterprise deployment experience. You'll have strong technical guidance while owning your work and handling real customer challenges with maturity. ### What You'll Do - Understand the real technical problem. Work with customers and domain experts to turn source material, rules, exceptions and constraints into clear requirements and success criteria. - Prototype verifiable AI workflows. Experiment with model-based formalization, symbolic reasoning and proof checking on challenging real-world inputs. Find out what works and where it breaks. - Build rigorous evaluations. Create representative examples, edge cases and benchmarks to measure rule fidelity, correctness, coverage and robustness. Reproduce failures and investigate them carefully. - Take systems into production. Build and debug applications, APIs, tools and integrations. Iterate with customer teams, explain limitations and help deliver reliable workflows. - Close the loop with research. Work with researchers to turn customer issues and evaluation results into better representations, models, proof workflows and core technology. - Own problems and improve what comes next. Ask sharp questions, take responsibility for scoped work, communicate blockers early and turn one-off fixes into reusable patterns where possible. ### You Will Thrive in This Role If You Have - Strong software engineering fundamentals. You can write clean code, reason about data structures and algorithms, and debug unfamiliar problems. - First-principles and logical thinking. You question assumptions, isolate the essential problem and explain your reasoning clearly. - High initiative and a habit of learning quickly. You have examples of making meaningful progress without waiting for detailed instructions. - A genuine interest in Pramaana's mission. You are deeply excited about reliable, verifiable AI to study the problem and build in this space. - Clear written and verbal communication, including the maturity to stay calm, be candid about uncertainty and work constructively with customers. - Comfort learning from more experienced engineers, asking for help when needed and incorporating feedback quickly. ### Especially Strong Candidates May Also Have - Built an impressive personal project, research prototype, hackathon project or meaningful open-source contribution from scratch. - Experience with Python or TypeScript, APIs, backend development, LLM applications, evaluation or developer tools. - Explored formal verification, theorem proving, Lean, logic, symbolic reasoning or AI reliability through work or self-directed learning. - Hands-on experience working with users, handling unexpected problems or explaining technical ideas to non-specialists. [View posting at Pramaana Labs](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/pramaana-labs/07e93dce-ec07-4ce8-b4b1-e166f3b9c2bc/application) ## About Pramaana Labs Builds systems that formalize domain rules and produce machine-checkable proofs for AI answers in high-stakes fields. 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