FDE Dispatch: Forward Deployed Engineer certifications and clearance index

Files
  fde-certifications-2026-10-24.json  hand classification of every
                                      certif / accredit / credential /
                                      clearance keyword match, with
                                      denominators, required vs preferred
                                      splits, named certifications by
                                      employer, clearance as its own
                                      category, noise categories, and a
                                      per-match classification table

Used on https://fdedispatch.com/forward-deployed-engineer-certification/

Population
  Engineer-title posting texts pulled October 25, 2026 (566 of 568
  engineer-title rows with in_page_stats = true in
  fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv; 2 had closed) and deployment-strategist
  posting texts pulled October 28, 2026 (85 texts). Combined denominator
  651. Management titles from the October 24, 2026 snapshot are not in
  this corpus. Keyword seed matches: 264 postings.

Method
  Every match was hand-classified. A posting counts as a candidate
  certification only when a certification is listed as a requirement or
  a preference for the candidate. Required vs preferred/nice-to-have is
  taken from the posting section (for example "Must To Have", "You're
  Our Person If", "Even Better If", "Nice-to-Haves", "Preferred
  Qualifications", "Bonus points"). Bare "Databricks Certification"
  bullets under "What we look for" are counted as preferred: sibling
  Databricks postings use preferred / nice-to-have / plus wording in the
  same slot, and none say the certificate is required to apply.
  Security clearance is reported separately and is not counted as a
  certification.

Not counted as a candidate certification
  Pay-transparency boilerplate that lists certifications as a
  compensation factor (common at Databricks); employer workplace
  certifications; system or API credentials; employer boasts about
  staff certification counts; professional-development benefits
  language; anti-credential hiring language; privacy-framework and
  recruitment-fraud boilerplate; TLS/PKI or document certificates;
  accreditation as a customer-environment job duty; role-level
  competency boilerplate without a named candidate cert.

Caveats
  Keyword matching is approximate; hand review removes the noise listed
  above. Postings close; check the url before relying on a row. Employers
  that post only on LinkedIn, Indeed or other applicant systems are
  missing. Databricks and Salesforce dominate the candidate-certification
  counts. No posting in this corpus names an FDE-specific credential.

Related downloads
  Full postings snapshot: fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv / .json
  Skills requirements index: fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv / .json

Credit
  Free to reuse with credit to FDE Dispatch and a link to the page above.