# Forward Deployed Engineer

Description This is the founding Forward Deployed Engineer role at Nimble. You build AI agents and search integrations with our customers and take them to production. After qualification, you partner with the Solution Consultant and customer engineers to refine the architecture and agree on success criteria. You build the first working version against the customer's real queries, workflows, and codebase, and prove it on their evaluation set. You lead the implementation through production deployment and an agreed handoff, equipping the customer's engineers to operate and extend what you build. A typical engagement lasts 12 weeks. On each engagement, you own these technical decisions: Refining the implementation architecture. Choosing the appropriate orchestration approach. Defining evaluations with the customer. Negotiating technical scope and sequencing. Deciding what can be reused and what needs to remain customer-specific. As the first member of the team, you help craft the strategy for the FDE function. That covers how we scope and run engagements, the playbook the team works from, and who we hire next. The role is based in New York or San Francisco, 3 days a week in the office.

- **Id**: 3772499
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nimble-forward-deployed-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-04T21:55:11Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-04
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T07:04:24Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 4909
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Data Providers & Datasets, Web Scraping & Proxy Networks

## Company

- **Id**: 6312
- **Name**: Nimble
- **Domain**: nimbleway.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nimbleway>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Comeet

## Salary

- **Min**: 170000
- **Max**: 235000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 235000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **TypeScript** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI Agents SDK** — Optional: yes
- **RAG** — Optional: yes
- **Reranking** — Optional: yes
- **Snowflake** — Optional: yes
- **Vercel AI SDK** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 4
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-04T22:04:32Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 90
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.903
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:3, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 235000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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