> 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 FDE roles differ across companies

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See how the same FDE title covers different work across employers, and which company pages to open next.

See how the same FDE title covers different work across employers, and which company pages to open next.

Published Sep 20, 2026 · Updated Nov 7, 2026

- One employer can post production software, customer deployment, pre-sales evaluation and internal tooling under the same title.
- A company page lists several offices for one role, so the individual posting holds the eligible work location.
- A posted range covers what the employer advertises, and reading the employer's terms is what makes two ranges comparable.
- Compare the work first, then the employer name, then the pay.
- Every employer hiring now, with its posting count and posted pay, is on the [company directory](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies).

## Open the employer page, then the posting

[OpenAI's page](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/openai) groups financial services, legal, healthcare and software roles across several US locations. [Palantir's page](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/palantir) covers forward deployed software and AI engineering across commercial and government work. Those titles point to different customer and delivery contexts, so the role text decides.

A location in a title does not establish where a person may work, and a range on a company page does not establish what a specific role pays. Check the individual posting for its eligible work location, remote policy and travel language, then read the employer's own pay terms on the [salary page](https://nextmove.md/fde/salary).

## Related reading

- [How to find FDE jobs](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/find-fde-jobs)
- [How to compare FDE job offers](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/compare-fde-offers)
- [Planning your first 90 days as an FDE](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-first-90-days)