> 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.

# How your experience applies to FDE work

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/paths

Choose the experience you are bringing to see which US FDE postings ask for it, what to show employers and what to ask them. Software engineering, solutions and customer engineering, implementation and data engineering, consulting and forward deployed work.

**2,493** of 3,311 postings say what experience they want · read Nov 6, 2026

- [ ### Software engineering How software engineering carries into customer work. 1,693 postings · 808 companies From software engineering to FDE →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/backend-engineer)
- [ ### Solutions and customer engineering What to show from customer and integration work. 554 postings · 323 companies From solutions and customer engineering to FDE →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/solutions-engineer)
- [ ### Implementation and data engineering What to show from integration and data work. 765 postings · 369 companies From implementation and data engineering to FDE →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/implementation-data-engineer)
- [ ### Forward deployed engineering What to compare before your next FDE role. 171 postings · 123 companies Choosing your next FDE role →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/forward-deployed-engineer)
- [ ### Consulting What to show from client delivery work. 310 postings · 198 companies From consulting to FDE →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths/consulting)

Employer postings · A posting can ask for more than one of these five · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)