{ "name": "Cognition Deployed Engineer postings, FDE Dispatch snapshot October 24, 2026", "publisher": "FDE Dispatch", "url": "https://fdedispatch.com/cognition-forward-deployed-engineer/", "snapshot_date": "2026-10-24", "population": "Cognition rows with in_page_stats = true in fde-postings-2026-10-24.json (the same 725-posting / 121-employer population counted on the salary, job titles, locations and travel pages). All 15 come from Cognition's Ashby board (makers of Devin). They count as FDE-family because the title rule includes 'forward deployed' and 'deployed engineer'.", "affiliation_note": "FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Cognition. Figures come from Cognition public job postings on the snapshot date.", "totals": { "cognition_postings": 15, "fde_family_postings": 725, "fde_family_employers": 121, "cognition_share_pct": 2.1, "rank_by_postings": 7, "role_families": { "engineer": 15 } }, "title_wording": { "titles_with_forward_or_fde": 11, "snapshot_deployed_engineer_titles_without_forward_or_fde": 21, "by_employer": { "Cognition": 4, "LangChain": 17 }, "tracks": [ { "track": "Forward Deployed Engineer", "postings": 11 }, { "track": "Partner Deployed Engineer", "postings": 4 } ], "regions_in_title": { "APAC": 3, "Europe": 3, "LATAM": 2, "ANZ": 1, "Doha": 1, "Federal": 1, "Japan": 1, "South Korea": 1, "US": 1, "(no region in title)": 1 }, "forward_deployed_engineer_regions": [ "ANZ", "APAC", "Doha", "Europe", "Europe", "Federal", "Japan", "LATAM", "LATAM", "South Korea", "US" ], "partner_deployed_engineer_titles": [ "Partner Deployed Engineer", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - Europe" ], "titles": [ "Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ", "Forward Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Doha", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan", "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "Forward Deployed Engineer - South Korea", "Forward Deployed Engineer - US", "Partner Deployed Engineer", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - Europe" ] }, "location": { "us_location_counts": { "False": 11, "True": 3, "None": 1 }, "us_located": 3, "outside_us": 11, "unclassified": 1, "outside_us_pct": 73.3, "all_employer_outside_us_pct": 40.1, "outside_us_rows": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ", "location": "Sydney" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - APAC", "location": "Singapore" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Doha", "location": "Doha" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "location": "London" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "location": "Southern Europe" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan", "location": "Tokyo" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "location": "Mexico City" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - South Korea", "location": "South Korea" }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "location": "India" }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "location": "Tokyo" }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer - Europe", "location": "London" } ], "unclassified_rows": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "location": "Sao Paulo" } ], "us_located_rows": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal", "location": "Washington DC", "all_locations": "Washington DC; San Francisco" }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - US", "location": "San Francisco", "all_locations": "San Francisco; New York City; Austin, Texas" }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer", "location": "San Francisco", "all_locations": "San Francisco; New York City; Austin, Texas" } ], "first_listed_location": { "London": 2, "Tokyo": 2, "San Francisco": 2, "Sydney": 1, "Singapore": 1, "Doha": 1, "Southern Europe": 1, "Washington DC": 1, "Sao Paulo": 1, "Mexico City": 1, "South Korea": 1, "India": 1 }, "distinct_us_cities_listed": [ "Austin, Texas", "New York City", "San Francisco", "Washington DC" ], "multi_location_postings": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ", "listed_locations": 2 }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal", "listed_locations": 2 }, { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - US", "listed_locations": 3 }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer", "listed_locations": 3 }, { "title": "Partner Deployed Engineer - Europe", "listed_locations": 2 } ] }, "remote": { "remote_listed": 1, "remote_listed_pct": 6.7, "all_employer_remote_listed": 199, "all_employer_remote_listed_pct": 27.4, "remote_listed_top_employers": { "Databricks": 95, "ElevenLabs": 9, "Cursor": 7, "LangChain": 7, "Cohere": 6, "Salesforce": 6 }, "remote_listed_titles": [ "Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ" ], "workplace_labels": [ { "label": "OnSite", "postings": 8 }, { "label": "Hybrid", "postings": 5 }, { "label": "Remote", "postings": 1 }, { "label": "blank", "postings": 1 } ], "workplace_vs_remote_listed": [ { "workplace": "Hybrid", "remote_listed": false, "postings": 5 }, { "workplace": "OnSite", "remote_listed": false, "postings": 8 }, { "workplace": "Remote", "remote_listed": true, "postings": 1 }, { "workplace": "blank", "remote_listed": false, "postings": 1 } ], "note": "Remote-listed uses the locations-index definition (board marks remote or a listed location contains Remote). Workplace is Ashby workplaceType as captured; blank means empty." }, "travel": { "mentioned": 10, "pct_stated": 10, "upper_bounds": { "50": 10 }, "median_upper_bound": 50.0, "all_employer_median_upper_bound": 30.0, "stated_labels": [ "25–50%", "50%" ], "by_track": { "Forward Deployed Engineer": { "postings": 11, "stated": 6, "upper_bounds": { "50": 6 }, "stated_labels": [ "25–50%", "50%" ] }, "Partner Deployed Engineer": { "postings": 4, "stated": 4, "upper_bounds": { "50": 4 }, "stated_labels": [ "25–50%" ] } }, "note": "9 of the 10 stated strings are '25–50%' (en dash); Doha states '50%'. Upper bound = largest number in the string." }, "posted_pay": { "note": "Only one Cognition posting lists a USD pay range (Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal). No pay median is computed from a single posting. Posted ranges are not offers and exclude equity value.", "us_usd_postings_with_pay": 1, "median_midpoint": null, "all_employer_us_engineer_median_midpoint": 216104.0, "all_employer_us_engineer_postings_with_pay": 255, "by_track": { "Forward Deployed Engineer": { "us_usd_postings_with_pay": 1, "median_midpoint": null, "lowest_floor": 180000, "highest_top": 280000, "ranges_as_posted": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal", "location": "Washington DC", "pay_min": 180000, "pay_max": 280000, "label": "$180,000 to $280,000" } ] }, "Partner Deployed Engineer": { "us_usd_postings_with_pay": 0, "median_midpoint": null, "lowest_floor": null, "highest_top": null, "ranges_as_posted": [] } }, "ranges_as_posted": [ { "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal", "location": "Washington DC", "pay_min": 180000, "pay_max": 280000, "midpoint": 230000.0, "width": 100000, "label": "$180,000 to $280,000" } ], "non_us_rows_with_pay": [], "rows_without_pay": [ "Forward Deployed Engineer - ANZ", "Forward Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Doha", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Europe", "Forward Deployed Engineer - Japan", "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "Forward Deployed Engineer - LATAM", "Forward Deployed Engineer - South Korea", "Forward Deployed Engineer - US", "Partner Deployed Engineer", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - APAC", "Partner Deployed Engineer - Europe" ] }, "equity": { "cognition_equity_mentioned": 1, "all_employer_equity_mentioned": 388, "all_employer_pct": 53.5, "employers_10_plus_postings": [ { "employer": "LangChain", "postings": 17, "equity_mentioned": 17, "pct": 100.0 }, { "employer": "Databricks", "postings": 122, "equity_mentioned": 78, "pct": 63.9 }, { "employer": "Cloudflare", "postings": 11, "equity_mentioned": 7, "pct": 63.6 }, { "employer": "Palantir", "postings": 105, "equity_mentioned": 60, "pct": 57.1 }, { "employer": "Cohere", "postings": 11, "equity_mentioned": 6, "pct": 54.5 }, { "employer": "Scale AI", "postings": 11, "equity_mentioned": 6, "pct": 54.5 }, { "employer": "OpenAI", "postings": 32, "equity_mentioned": 16, "pct": 50.0 }, { "employer": "Salesforce", "postings": 50, "equity_mentioned": 9, "pct": 18.0 }, { "employer": "Cognition", "postings": 15, "equity_mentioned": 1, "pct": 6.7 }, { "employer": "Accenture", "postings": 40, "equity_mentioned": 0, "pct": 0.0 }, { "employer": "ElevenLabs", "postings": 12, "equity_mentioned": 0, "pct": 0.0 }, { "employer": "Cursor", "postings": 10, "equity_mentioned": 0, "pct": 0.0 } ] }, "requirements_index": { "source": "fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv (posting text re-fetched October 25, 2026; 563 engineer-title postings, 115 employers)", "cognition_rows": 15, "all_rows": 563, "employers_with_10_plus_rows": 8, "published_requirements": [ { "requirement": "Startup or founder experience", "field": "startup", "cognition": 14, "cognition_pct": 93.3, "all_postings": 67, "all_pct": 11.9, "rank_among_employers_10_plus_rows": 1, "top_employers_10_plus_rows": [ { "employer": "Cognition", "rows": 15, "pct": 93.3 }, { "employer": "Cloudflare", "rows": 10, "pct": 30.0 }, { "employer": "LangChain", "rows": 17, "pct": 17.6 } ] }, { "requirement": "APIs or integrations", "field": "apis", "cognition": 15, "cognition_pct": 100.0, "all_postings": 393, "all_pct": 69.8, "rank_among_employers_10_plus_rows": 2, "top_employers_10_plus_rows": [ { "employer": "Accenture", "rows": 28, "pct": 100.0 }, { "employer": "Cognition", "rows": 15, "pct": 100.0 }, { "employer": "Salesforce", "rows": 38, "pct": 94.7 } ] }, { "requirement": "Customer-facing work", "field": "customer_facing", "cognition": 14, "cognition_pct": 93.3, "all_postings": 417, "all_pct": 74.1, "rank_among_employers_10_plus_rows": 2, "top_employers_10_plus_rows": [ { "employer": "Databricks", "rows": 87, "pct": 97.7 }, { "employer": "Cognition", "rows": 15, "pct": 93.3 }, { "employer": "Cloudflare", "rows": 10, "pct": 90.0 } ] } ], "unreliable_keyword_flags": { "note": "agents, evals and llm_genai are 0 of 15 for Cognition in the requirements index, even though every posting text names Devin (an AI software agent). Those flags are not published as Cognition comparisons.", "flags": { "agents": { "cognition": 0, "cognition_pct": 0.0, "all_postings": 231, "all_pct": 41.0 }, "evals": { "cognition": 0, "cognition_pct": 0.0, "all_postings": 103, "all_pct": 18.3 }, "llm_genai": { "cognition": 0, "cognition_pct": 0.0, "all_postings": 247, "all_pct": 43.9 } } }, "years_min_stated": { "not stated": 15 } }, "method": { "source_files": [ "fde-postings-2026-10-24.json", "fde-locations-2026-10-24.json", "fde-skills-2026-10-25.csv" ], "filter": "company == Cognition and in_page_stats == true", "script": "scripts/build-cognition-aggregate.py", "tracks": "title text: 'Partner Deployed Engineer' -> Partner Deployed Engineer; else Forward Deployed Engineer", "us_location": "locations index us_location (true = every listed location in the US; None = unclassified)", "travel_upper_bound": "largest number in the stated percentage string" }, "posted_or_updated": { "note": "These 15 listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot; this is not a posting-date range." } }