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   "careers_url": "https://cursor.com/careers/regional-director-forward-deployed-engineering-public-sector",
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  "note": "Every Cursor FDE-family posting text was re-fetched on November 5, 2026 (America/Los_Angeles) from the public Ashby job board API. All 11 November 3 snapshot rows were still listed, with empty compensation fields, and no new FDE-family posting had opened since November 3. The same board lists 7 AI Deployment Manager and Regional Director, AI Deployment postings on a separate Customer Success team; their titles fall outside the snapshot title rule and are not counted. Evidence links use cursor.com/careers pages, which serve the same texts (all returned HTTP 200 on November 5). 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.",
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   "scripts/cursor-evidence-2026-11-05.json"
  ],
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  "script": "scripts/build-cursor-aggregate.py",
  "tracks": "title text: Forward Deployed Engineer; Forward Deployed Strategist; Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering",
  "pay": "No structured or in-text pay range on these 11 rows",
  "rank": "1 + count of employers with strictly more in_page_stats postings (ties share the rank)",
  "live_check": "November 5, 2026 America/Los_Angeles against Ashby posting API and cursor.com/careers",
  "caveat": "Counts are open postings on one day and do not measure headcount. Some November 5 engineer texts use SpaceXAI or SpaceXSI product naming; one Strategist text says Grok workflows. Quotes on the page are whole words copied from the posting texts."
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  "texts_refetched": "2026-11-05",
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}