> 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. # Production AI FDE job description template Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/production-ai-fde-job-description Copy a job description template for a production AI FDE role and fill in the ownership boundary. Copy a job description template for a production AI FDE role and fill in the ownership boundary. Published Sep 20, 2026 · Updated Nov 7, 2026 - Copy this into your hiring document and replace every field marked EMPLOYER, then delete the instructions. - The section that decides whether candidates apply is the ownership boundary, so fill that one first. - Remove any tool or requirement the first project will not use. - Delete any success measure the company cannot observe, and publish no invented adoption numbers. - Before publishing, check the range and conditions against [how to set compensation for an FDE role](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-compensation-for-employers). ## [EMPLOYER: company name] — Forward Deployed Engineer, Production AI **Location:** [EMPLOYER: city, state or approved remote region] **Work arrangement:** [EMPLOYER: office, hybrid, or remote. Include required office days.] **Travel:** [EMPLOYER: expected travel range, or "travel depends on the assignment"] **Employment:** [EMPLOYER: full-time or other status] **Compensation:** [EMPLOYER: base salary range by location, plus bonus and equity where applicable] **Work authorization:** [EMPLOYER: countries or statuses supported, and whether sponsorship is available] ### The role [EMPLOYER: company name] builds [product or platform] for [customer type]. We are hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer to help [customer type] use [AI capability] in [workflow or business setting]. You will take work from [discovery, prototype, or current state] through [production milestone], working with [customer engineering, operators, product, research, security, or other teams]. This role owns [EMPLOYER: exact ownership boundary]. [EMPLOYER: state who owns the commercial relationship, product roadmap, security approval and ongoing operations where those belong elsewhere.] ### What you will do - Lead technical discovery with [EMPLOYER: customer or internal user group] and turn the workflow into a scoped delivery plan. - Design and build [EMPLOYER: services, applications, agents, evaluations, or integrations] that run in [customer environment or company infrastructure]. - Write, review, test and operate production code in [EMPLOYER: languages and main frameworks]. - Define how the system will be evaluated, monitored and supported after launch, including [EMPLOYER: specific checks or handoff]. - Work with [EMPLOYER: named teams] to resolve access, privacy, security, reliability and rollout constraints. - Explain technical choices and trade-offs to [EMPLOYER: technical and non-technical stakeholders]. - Record reusable patterns and field feedback so future deployments take less custom work. ### What success looks like in the first [EMPLOYER: 90 days or six months] - [EMPLOYER: A scoped customer workflow or deployment plan is agreed with named owners.] - [EMPLOYER: A pilot or production system meets the stated reliability and evaluation checks.] - [EMPLOYER: Users adopt the workflow, or the agreed operational result is measured.] - [EMPLOYER: A runbook, test plan or reusable component is available for the next deployment.] [EMPLOYER: Delete any outcome that cannot be observed. Do not publish invented adoption or impact numbers.] ### Required experience - Shipping and operating production software in [EMPLOYER: relevant environment]. - Turning an unclear user or customer problem into a technical plan and a working system. - At least one of [EMPLOYER: Python, JavaScript or TypeScript, Java, or other actual languages]. - [EMPLOYER: LLM or generative AI systems, evaluation, retrieval, data pipelines, or other work the first project needs]. - Clear written and spoken communication with engineers and [EMPLOYER: customer or domain stakeholders]. ### Useful additional experience - [EMPLOYER: production LLM or agent deployment] - [EMPLOYER: observability, evaluation, security or governance for AI systems] - [EMPLOYER: experience in the customer domain] - [EMPLOYER: cloud, data or integration tools that shorten the first project] Equivalent evidence from software engineering, implementation engineering, solutions engineering, data engineering or another hands-on technical role is welcome where it shows the ownership described above. ### How the team works [EMPLOYER: Explain who the engineer works with each week, how deployments are staffed, how decisions are made, and what happens after production launch. State whether customer visits are occasional or routine.] ### Why this role exists [EMPLOYER: Explain the business or customer need in two or three plain sentences. Do not use "high impact" without naming the result.] ### Benefits and process [EMPLOYER: Link to benefits, accommodations, interview stages and application instructions.] Apply: [EMPLOYER: application link] ## Related reading - [How to write an FDE job description](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-job-description) - [Data and integration FDE job description template](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/data-integration-fde-job-description) - [First FDE hire job description template](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/first-fde-hire-job-description) - [How to interview FDE candidates](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/interview-fde-candidates) - [How to set compensation for an FDE role](https://nextmove.md/fde/resources/fde-compensation-for-employers)