OpenHands
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at OpenHands. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $175K–$240K base + equity + bonus.
On the board since Jul 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why OpenHands
Remote-first FDE for an open-source AI coding agent — the product is free, the hard part is the on-prem last mile, and that's your job.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Remote-first
- Comp
- Competitive
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Senior platform engineers fluent in Kubernetes, Helm, and OAuth
- Open-source people who want to ship where the code is public
- Remote US candidates comfortable owning PoC-to-production alone
What they do
OpenHands (formerly OpenDevin, commercialized by All Hands AI) is an open-source AI software-development agent, with an enterprise edition teams run on their own infrastructure. Use cases include issue-to-PR automation, CVE remediation, and other agentic SDLC work.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is a post-sales seat that owns technical success from PoC to production: on-prem installs on customer-managed infra (Kubernetes, Helm, certs, secrets), agent identity and OAuth delegation, GitHub/Atlassian integrations, and MCP connectors. With an open-source product, the value a customer pays for is precisely the enterprise deployment you deliver.
Comp & leveling
$175K–$240K base plus equity and bonus for 5+ years. Competitive for remote US at an early-stage company; the bonus component is less common for FDEs and worth asking about — it may track customer outcomes.
Growth signals
Open-source adoption gives OpenHands a large top-of-funnel that most coding-agent startups have to buy. The risk is intense competition from well-funded closed coding agents; the enterprise, self-hosted angle is its differentiator, and this role sits right on it.
Analysis updated 2026-09-23
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