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 "name": "Cohere Forward Deployed Engineer postings, FDE Dispatch snapshot October 24, 2026",
 "publisher": "FDE Dispatch",
 "url": "https://fdedispatch.com/cohere-forward-deployed-engineer/",
 "snapshot_date": "2026-10-24",
 "population": "Cohere 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 11 come from Cohere's Ashby board. 9 are engineer-family titles (Agentic Platform, Infrastructure Specialist, Sovereign AI) and 2 are Engineering Manager, FDE titles.",
 "affiliation_note": "FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Cohere. Figures come from Cohere public job postings on the snapshot date.",
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   {
    "track": "Engineering Manager, FDE",
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   {
    "track": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI",
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    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Europe)",
    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)",
    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)"
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist": [
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    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Public Sector)",
    "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (UK Public Sector)"
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    "Korea",
    "Middle East",
    "United Kingdom",
    "United States"
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    "Ottawa",
    "United Kingdom"
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI": [
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   "Engineering Manager, FDE Agentic Platform",
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Europe)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Middle East)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Public Sector)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (UK Public Sector)",
   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI"
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    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
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    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Europe)",
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   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (Korea)",
    "location": "Korea"
   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)",
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   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Middle East)",
    "location": "Middle East"
   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Public Sector)",
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   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (UK Public Sector)",
    "location": "United Kingdom"
   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI",
    "location": "Ottawa"
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    "title": "Engineering Manager, FDE Agentic Platform",
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    "all_locations": "Toronto; New York"
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   {
    "title": "Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (NORAM)",
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    "all_locations": "Canada; United States"
   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
    "location": "United States",
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   "United Kingdom": 2,
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    "title": "Engineering Manager, FDE Infrastructure (NORAM)",
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   {
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   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
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   {
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   {
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   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Middle East)",
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   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (Public Sector)",
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   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist (UK Public Sector)",
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   },
   {
    "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI",
    "listed_locations": 4
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  "remote_listed_pct": 54.5,
  "all_employer_remote_listed": 199,
  "all_employer_remote_listed_pct": 27.4,
  "remote_listed_top_employers": {
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   "ElevenLabs": 9,
   "Cursor": 7,
   "LangChain": 7,
   "Cohere": 6,
   "Salesforce": 6
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform",
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform (UK Public Sector)",
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   },
   {
    "label": "Hybrid",
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  "all_employer_median_upper_bound": 30.0,
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   "20–40%"
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    "upper_bounds": {},
    "stated_labels": []
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Platform": {
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    "upper_bounds": {
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    "stated_labels": [
     "20–40%"
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Infrastructure Specialist": {
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    "stated": 3,
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     "40": 3
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     "20–40%"
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   "Forward Deployed Engineer, Sovereign AI": {
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     "20-40%"
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  "note": "All 9 engineer-title postings state 20-40% travel (upper bound 40). Both Engineering Manager seats mention travel without a percentage. Upper bound = largest number in the stated percentage string."
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   "KRW": 1
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  "usd_postings_with_pay": 0,
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  "all_employer_us_engineer_postings_with_pay": 255,
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 },
 "posted_or_updated": {
  "note": "These 11 listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot; this is not a posting-date range."
 }
}