FDE Dispatch: OpenAI Forward Deployed Engineer index, October 24, 2026 snapshot

Files
  fde-openai-2026-10-24.json  aggregate figures for OpenAI FDE-family
                              postings: role families, title families,
                              vertical labels by title text, new grad and
                              internship counts by title text, workplace and
                              location, stated travel, posted US pay by role
                              family, and share of the all-employer snapshot

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

Population
  The 32 OpenAI 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). Public Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby and Workday job boards,
  pulled October 24, 2026. Recruiting agencies and duplicates removed.

Method
  Built by scripts/build-openai-aggregate.py from
  fde-postings-2026-10-24.json.
  Title families: keyword match on the posting title (Forward Deployed
  Engineer; Forward Deployed Software / Security Engineer; Deployment Lead;
  Partner AI Deployment Engineer; Manager titles).
  Vertical labels: title text only (Healthcare, Legal, Financial Services,
  Government, Spanish-speaking). Titles that match none are unlabeled.
  New grad and internship: title text only. The dataset intern flag is false
  for every OpenAI row in this snapshot.
  Workplace: workplace_type lowercased (OnSite -> onsite, Hybrid -> hybrid).
  Travel: upper bound = largest number in the stated percentage string.
  Normalized bands collapse en-dash and hyphen variants of the same range.
  US pay: us_location true, USD range posted, first range on the row.
  Posted ranges are not offers.

Caveats
  Open postings on public boards on one day, not headcount and not a census.
  These listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot. The ATS
  posted_or_updated field can show dates earlier for evergreen listings; it
  is not a posting-date range.
  All-employer remote comparison uses the published locations-index figure
  (199 of 725, 27.4%), not the narrower postings remote_listed field (191,
  26.3%). OpenAI has 1 remote-listed posting in this snapshot.
  FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with OpenAI. Figures come from OpenAI
  public job postings.

Related downloads
  Full postings snapshot: fde-postings-2026-10-24.csv / .json
  Travel index: fde-travel-2026-10-24.json
  Palantir index: fde-palantir-2026-10-24.json

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