> 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.

# Remote work and travel in FDE roles

Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/research/remote-work-and-travel

See how many FDE postings allow remote work or require travel, and what to confirm before relying on a label.

**3,315** postings · **1,376** companies · read Nov 8, 2026

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Stated in the posting

## 829 of 3,315 postings (25.0%) record on-site work.

On-site

- [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?work=onsite)

**25.0%** 829 postings

Hybrid

- [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?work=hybrid)

**24.3%** 807 postings

Remote

- [Browse these jobs →](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs?work=remote)

**21.0%** 697 postings

Not stated / unclear

**29.6%** 982 postings

The arrangement stated in each posting, not a company-wide policy. Remote can include location restrictions, travel or conflicting office language.

Stated in the posting

## Most postings say nothing about travel. Of the 1,403 that do, 826 state a maximum, and 723 cap it at 50% or less.

Share of the 1,403 postings that state it.

Explicitly no travel

**0.6%** 9 postings

Up to 25%

**24.8%** 348 postings

26–50%

**26.7%** 375 postings

Over 50%

**7.3%** 103 postings

Travel stated, no percentage

**40.5%** 568 postings

1,912 postings say nothing.

A band is the maximum share of time the posting states. A posting that names travel without a percentage is counted on its own line, because no frequency is converted into a percentage. Silence is unknown, not zero travel. Conflicting terms are also unknown.

- "Remote" can still limit the job to one state, region or country.
- A travel percentage is the posting's stated maximum, not what the team did last quarter.
- Ask what triggers a trip, how much notice people get, and whether the percentage counts conferences.
- Missing language about location or travel means the condition is unknown, not that the job is remote or travel-free.

## What to confirm with the employer

Confirm the eligible work location, the time zone, the office expectation, and whether customer visits are part of the job. A [Veeam forward deployed engineer posting](https://careers.veeam.com/job/united-states/forward-deployed-engineer/22681/100820733376) is one employer example, not a company-wide travel policy.

Locations and working arrangements here are read from the posting text, and those details change.

Employer postings · [Download current counts](https://nextmove.md/fde/research/data.csv) · [How to cite](https://nextmove.md/fde/research#method) · [How we read postings](https://nextmove.md/fde/method)

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