FDE Dispatch: Cursor Forward Deployed Engineer index, November 3, 2026 snapshot

Files
  fde-cursor-2026-11-03.json  aggregate figures for Cursor's 11 in-page
                               FDE-family postings: title tracks (Forward
                               Deployed Engineer, Forward Deployed Strategist,
                               Regional Director Forward Deployed Engineering),
                               years from the posting texts, remote-listed and
                               workplace fields, US vs outside-US vs mixed, no
                               travel percentage stated, no posted pay, product
                               naming notes from the November 5, 2026 live check

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

Population
  The 11 Cursor rows with in_page_stats = true among the 704 postings
  from 114 employers in fde-postings-2026-11-03.json. All 11 come from
  Cursor's public Ashby board, pulled November 3, 2026. 5 are
  engineer-family Forward Deployed Engineer titles (San Francisco,
  Australia, EMEA/London, India, Japan), 3 are Forward Deployed Strategist
  titles (Remote, London, Singapore), and 3 are Regional Director,
  Forward Deployed Engineering titles (San Francisco, Singapore, and
  Public Sector in Washington, D.C.). Cursor ties Scale AI at 11 postings
  (10th by posting count; 9 employers have more).

Method
  Built by scripts/build-cursor-aggregate.py from
  fde-postings-2026-11-03.json and scripts/cursor-evidence-2026-11-05.json
  (hand-verified quotes and the November 5, 2026 America/Los_Angeles live
  check against api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/cursor and
  cursor.com/careers).
  Track: title text. Forward Deployed Engineer (5); Forward Deployed
  Strategist (3); Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (3).
  Buckets sum to 11.
  Travel: none of the 11 rows set travel_mentioned or travel_pct_stated.
  Pay: no structured pay range in the snapshot and no Annual Salary line
  in the November 5 texts.
  Remote: remote_listed is true on 6 rows, false on 4, and null on the
  India engineer row. workplace_type is Remote on 6, OnSite on 4, and
  null on India.
  Live check (November 5, 2026, America/Los_Angeles): all 11 snapshot
  Cursor rows were still listed on Cursor's public Ashby board API, with
  empty compensation fields. No new FDE-family posting had opened since
  November 3. 7 AI Deployment Manager and Regional Director, AI
  Deployment postings on the same board sit outside the title rule and
  are not counted. Evidence links point to cursor.com/careers, which
  serves the same texts.
  Employer context: Cursor has been part of SpaceX since August 14, 2026
  (https://cursor.com/blog/joining-spacex). All 11 texts open with a
  SpaceX company description; four engineer texts name SpaceX products
  (SpaceXAI or SpaceXSI) and Grok models, one strategist text says Grok
  workflows, and the India engineer and two Regional Director texts say
  Cursor workflows.
  Snapshot comparison: 168 of 704 in-page postings are remote-listed,
  363 of 704 carry a pay range, 424 of 704 mention travel.

Caveats
  Counts are open postings on a public board on one day and do not
  measure headcount. Matching is by title only. Eleven postings are
  too few for employer-level rates.
  FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Cursor or SpaceX. Figures come
  from Cursor 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
  Management index: fde-management-2026-10-24.json
  Deployment strategist index: fde-deployment-strategist-2026-10-24.json
  Evidence list: scripts/cursor-evidence-2026-11-05.json

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