> 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. # Software Engineer (SWE), Delivery Ops Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fa31bf09d6a9aa15 Mecka AI posts a FDE role to build for teams inside the company in New York, NY, at $150,000–$180,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,865 postings with pay. Build the pipelines and internal tools that turn customer specifications into packaged, quality-checked robotics datasets. Read from the employer’s posting on November 13, 2026. - [Mecka AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/mecka-ai) First seen Sep 24, 2026 · open on Ashby as of Nov 13, 2026 **$150,000–$180,000** New York, NY Hybrid Full-time Build the pipelines and internal tools that turn customer specifications into packaged, quality-checked robotics datasets. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2Ffa31bf09d6a9aa15&placement=top) - [View posting at Mecka AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mecka.ai/2c75ff82-1aab-455b-ade1-a20e68740823/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 $150K–$180K Below the median Midpoint $165K · median $190K This job $150K to $180K. Senior FDE postings, 1,865 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K. ### The work Builds for teams inside the company 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**: Both - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **3+ years** building production data pipelines or backend systems Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### 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? 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**: Hybrid - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Pay**: ## More like this [Google](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/google) ### [Technical Solutions Consultant, Global Security Systems and Technology Applied Data and AI Solutions](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/fade74c6c6f014d8) Boulder, CO · Austin, TX · +3 more 4w ago $152,000–$221,000 [Fanatics Collectibles](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fanatics-collectibles) ### [Senior Forward Deployed AI Engineer— Strategic Finance](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/52001c9ef3989993) New York, NY 9d ago $145,000–$181,250 [Fluent, Inc.](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/fluent-inc) ### [Software Engineer (AI Agents)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/af6349a15d3ebff5) New York, NY Remote 7d ago $130,000–$155,000 ## The job description from Mecka AI ### About Mecka AI Mecka AI is building the data infrastructure layer for robotics and embodied AI. We design and operate global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by leading AI labs and robotics companies to train and validate humanoid and embodied AI systems. We work closely with frontier robotics teams to bridge real-world data, simulation, learning-based systems, and deployed hardware. About Delivery Ops Delivery Ops turns raw captures into datasets customers can train on. We pull and filter episodes against each customer's spec, run every ship gate (quality, privacy, exclusivity, labels), package and ship the data, and report on what was delivered. As volumes grow into hundreds of thousands of hours per program, the team also owns showing the field what this data looks like and why it matters. About the role Every delivery is a pipeline problem: millions of episodes, terabytes of video, and a customer spec that changes per program. You will build the systems that let a small team ship at that scale, so a delivery that takes a week today takes an afternoon. What you'll do Pool pulls Build pipelines that turn a customer spec (hours, diversity mix, formats, label levels) into a filtered, reproducible episode list. Ship gates Automate the checks every episode must pass before shipping (quality, privacy blur, bans, exclusivity, label integrity) and make failures easy to trace. Packaging and transfer Own export to customer formats and storage, with manifests, checksums, and re-delivery support. Delivery ledger Maintain the source of truth for what shipped to whom, and the dashboards and reports built on it. Internal tools Ship lightweight web tools (sample viewers, review pages, report generators) that the delivery team uses daily. What you bring - 3 to 6+ years building production data pipelines or backend systems. - Strong Python and SQL; comfortable with document stores and analytical databases at the scale of millions of rows. - Experience moving large media files through cloud object storage reliably. - Enough frontend skill to ship a usable internal tool without a designer. Even better if you have - Video processing experience (FFmpeg, frame extraction, codecs). - Experience with robotics, computer vision, or ML training datasets. If you don't check every box above but believe you can do the job, we encourage you to apply — we're looking for capability and trajectory, not a perfect checklist match. We strive to create an inclusive work environment for all; we welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to providing equal opportunities. Should you require any accommodations during the recruitment process, we will partner with you to meet your needs. We may use AI-assisted tools to help evaluate applications against the requirements of this role. These tools support our recruiting team in identifying qualified candidates but do not replace human judgment or limit which applications may be reviewed or considered. [View posting at Mecka AI](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/mecka.ai/2c75ff82-1aab-455b-ade1-a20e68740823/application) ## About Mecka AI Captures and annotates multimodal human movement data via global network; powers robot training for visuomotor and imitation learning. 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