Pace
2 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles at Pace across 3 listings. Curated with comp bands.
On the board since Oct 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Pace
A sub-40-person insurance-ops AI company selling the FDE seat as a founder track — you are paid in equity and scope, not a posted salary.
- FDE type
- True forward-deployed
- Travel
- Medium
- Comp
- Equity-heavy
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Early-career-to-mid engineers who want to own insurer relationships and a path to Applied AI lead or GM
- People who want insurance depth (Lloyd's market, large carriers) without joining an incumbent
- Candidates comfortable betting on equity with no published base
What they do
Pace positions itself as an AI operations partner for insurers, pairing AI agents with expert insurance-ops review so carriers can offload high-volume back-office work. The board describes a team under 40 people serving some of the largest insurers, which is an unusually enterprise-heavy customer list for that headcount.
What “forward deployed” means here
This is genuine FDE work: expand customers into new use cases, ship features, integrations and evals inside the product, and hand deployment patterns back to engineering. Roles are on-site in New York and London, and the company also runs a 10–14 week summer FDE internship that can convert to full-time, which tells you the seat is meant to be a training ground rather than a one-off hire.
Comp & leveling
No band is posted on any Pace listing; the board only says competitive base plus meaningful early-stage equity. Treat that as a negotiation signal: ask for base, option count, strike, and the stated path to Applied AI lead or business-line GM in writing before comparing it with a lab offer.
Growth signals
Parallel NYC and London FDE reqs plus an intern program suggest the company is scaling the deployment function ahead of the rest of the org. We have not verified funding figures, so the read is qualitative: the risk is concentration in a few large insurers, the upside is owning those accounts early.
Analysis updated 2026-10-13
Open roles at Pace
Forward Deployed Engineer
The London twin of Pace's NYC seat, part of an 8-role London build-out at a company of under 40 people. Insurance is a Lloyd's-market sweet spot for FDEs, and equity-heavy startup seats like this rarely publish a band.
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