FDE Dispatch: Chalk Forward Deployed Engineer index, November 3, 2026 snapshot Files fde-chalk-2026-11-03.json aggregate figures for Chalk's 9 in-page FDE-family postings: title tracks (Forward Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Strategist, Director, Forward Deployed Engineering), years from the posting texts, Python/SQL (and optional Rust or C++ on Strategist), on-site vs Remote Ashby workplace labels, remote (locations.py is_remote: 4 of 9), US vs outside-US, travel mentioned only on NY FDE with no travel percentage, posted US pay on four seats with Offers Equity on live tiers, degree lines, and a November 6, 2026 live check (all 9 still open) Used on https://fdedispatch.com/chalk-forward-deployed-engineer/ Population The 9 Chalk rows with in-page = true among the 704 postings from 114 employers in fde-postings-2026-11-03.json. All 9 come from Chalk's public Ashby board, pulled November 3, 2026: 6 Forward Deployed Engineer (NY on-site; London Remote; Dublin on-site; Singapore Remote; Japan Remote; Tel Aviv Remote); 2 Forward Deployed Strategist (SF and NY on-site, Sales); 1 Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (SF on-site with secondary NY, Engineering). Chalk ties Cloudflare, Saronic and Snowflake at 9 postings (12th by posting count; 11 employers have more: Databricks 115, Palantir 105, Salesforce 51, Accenture 39, OpenAI 33, LangChain 16, Cognition 15, Cohere 13, ElevenLabs 12, Cursor 11, Scale AI 11). Method Built by scripts/build-chalk-aggregate.py from fde-postings-2026-11-03.json and scripts/chalk-evidence-2026-11-06.json (hand-verified quotes and the November 6, 2026 America/Los_Angeles live check against api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/chalk). Track: title text. Forward Deployed Engineer (6); Forward Deployed Strategist (2); Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (1). Buckets sum to 9. Travel: travel_mentioned true only on NY FDE; travel_pct_stated null on all nine. Do not invent a travel percentage. Pay: 4 of 9 snapshot rows list Ashby Salary annual USD (Director $300,000 to $350,000; FDE NY $170,000 to $280,000; Strategist SF and NY $180,000 to $250,000), matching November 6 live compensation tiers that also say Offers Equity. London, Dublin, Singapore, Japan and Tel Aviv have no compensation tier. Never OTE; no currency conversion. Remote: aeo/fde-tracker/locations.py is_remote (board marks posting remote (Greenhouse flags excluded) or a listed location contains Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded). is_remote is true on 4 of 9 rows against 176 of 704 (25.0%) snapshot-wide. Ashby workplace label is on-site on 5 seats and Remote on 4 (London, Singapore, Japan, Tel Aviv). Live check (November 6, 2026, America/Los_Angeles): all 9 snapshot Chalk in-page rows were still listed among 17 total jobs on the chalk board. No new FDE-family posting had opened since November 3. No closures. Evidence links point to jobs.ashbyhq.com/chalk/ (HTTP 200 on November 6). Snapshot comparison: 176 of 704 in-page postings are remote by the same is_remote method (25.0%). Caveats Counts are open postings on a public board on one day and do not measure headcount. Matching is by title only. Nine postings are too few for employer-level rates. FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Chalk. Figures come from Chalk public job postings. Related downloads Full postings snapshot: fde-postings-2026-11-03.csv / .json Travel index: fde-travel-2026-10-24.json Visa sponsorship index: fde-visa-sponsorship-2026-10-24.json Degree requirements index: fde-degree-requirements-2026-10-24.json Evidence list: scripts/chalk-evidence-2026-11-06.json Credit Free to reuse with credit to FDE Dispatch and a link to the page above.