FDE Dispatch: Cognition Deployed Engineer index, October 24, 2026 snapshot

Files
  fde-cognition-2026-10-24.json  aggregate figures for Cognition's 15
                              Deployed Engineer postings: title tracks
                              (Forward Deployed Engineer vs Partner
                              Deployed Engineer), regions in the titles,
                              title wording vs the full snapshot,
                              published requirements (startup or founder
                              experience, APIs, customer-facing) vs all
                              563 engineer-title postings with rank among
                              the 8 employers with 10+ postings in the
                              requirements index, a caveat on unreliable
                              agents/evals/LLM keyword flags, years
                              stated, US vs outside-US vs unclassified,
                              remote-listed, workplace field, travel by
                              track, the single posted US pay range, and
                              equity mentions by employer (10+ postings)

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

Population
  The 15 Cognition rows with in_page_stats = true among the 725 postings
  from 121 employers counted on the salary, job titles, locations and
  travel pages (rows with in_page_stats = true in
  fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv in this folder). All 15 come from
  Cognition's public Ashby board (makers of Devin), pulled October 24,
  2026. All 15 are engineer-family titles. The snapshot counts them as
  FDE-family because the title rule includes "forward deployed" and
  "deployed engineer".

Method
  Built by scripts/build-cognition-aggregate.py from
  fde-postings-2026-10-24.json, fde-locations-2026-10-24.json (rows
  matched on posting URL) and fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv (the requirements
  index; posting text re-fetched October 25, 2026; all 15 Cognition
  postings are in it).
  Track: title text. "Partner Deployed Engineer" -> Partner Deployed
  Engineer; else Forward Deployed Engineer. Buckets sum to 15 (11 / 4).
  US vs outside the US and remote-listed: the published locations-index
  definitions (US-located = every listed location in the US;
  remote-listed = board marks remote or a listed location contains
  Remote). One LATAM posting (Sao Paulo) has us_location blank
  (unclassified). Buckets sum to 15 (3 US / 11 outside / 1 unclassified).
  Workplace: Ashby workplaceType as captured; blank means empty. Buckets
  sum to 15.
  Requirements: only startup, APIs and customer-facing are published as
  Cognition comparisons. The agents, evals and llm_genai keyword flags
  are 0 of 15 for Cognition even though every posting text names Devin,
  so those flags are recorded under unreliable_keyword_flags and are not
  used as published comparisons. A mention is not a hard requirement.
  Travel: upper bound = largest number in the stated percentage string,
  the rule used by fde-travel-2026-10-24.json. 9 of 10 stated strings
  are "25–50%"; Doha states "50%". All 10 upper bounds are 50.
  US pay: us_location true, USD range posted, first range in the posting
  text. Only the Federal posting lists a range ($180,000 to $280,000).
  No pay median is computed from a single posting. Posted ranges are not
  offers and exclude equity value.

Caveats
  Counts are open postings on a public board on one day and do not
  measure headcount. Matching is by title only.
  These listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot; this file has
  no posting-date range.
  FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Cognition. Figures come from
  Cognition public job postings.

Related downloads
  Full postings snapshot: fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv / .json
  Locations index: fde-locations-2026-10-24.json
  Requirements index: fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv / .json
  Travel index: fde-travel-2026-10-24.json

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