{
 "name": "Palantir Forward Deployed Engineer and Deployment Strategist postings, FDE Dispatch snapshot October 24, 2026",
 "publisher": "FDE Dispatch",
 "url": "https://fdedispatch.com/palantir-forward-deployed-engineer/",
 "snapshot_date": "2026-10-24",
 "population": "Palantir 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).",
 "affiliation_note": "FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Palantir. Figures come from Palantir public job postings on the snapshot date.",
 "totals": {
  "palantir_postings": 105,
  "fde_family_postings": 725,
  "fde_family_employers": 121,
  "other_employers": 120,
  "palantir_share_of_postings_pct": 14.5,
  "engineer_family": 70,
  "deployment_strategist": 35
 },
 "role_families": {
  "engineer": 70,
  "deployment_strategist": 35
 },
 "title_families": [
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer",
   "postings": 49
  },
  {
   "family": "Deployment Strategist",
   "postings": 35
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer",
   "postings": 11
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Enablement Engineer",
   "postings": 3
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer",
   "postings": 3
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed AI Engineer",
   "postings": 2
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Engineer (Mixed Reality)",
   "postings": 1
  },
  {
   "family": "Forward Deployed Security Engineer",
   "postings": 1
  }
 ],
 "government_vs_commercial_by_title_text": {
  "method": "Classified from title text only. government = title matches government, USG or federal; commercial = title matches commercial; unlabeled = neither.",
  "government": 54,
  "commercial": 12,
  "unlabeled": 39,
  "both": 0,
  "by_title_family": [
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer",
    "track": "government",
    "postings": 23
   },
   {
    "family": "Deployment Strategist",
    "track": "government",
    "postings": 18
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 16
   },
   {
    "family": "Deployment Strategist",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 15
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Infrastructure Engineer",
    "track": "government",
    "postings": 11
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Software Engineer",
    "track": "commercial",
    "postings": 10
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Enablement Engineer",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 3
   },
   {
    "family": "Deployment Strategist",
    "track": "commercial",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed AI Engineer",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Engineer (Mixed Reality)",
    "track": "unlabeled",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Reliability Engineer",
    "track": "government",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "family": "Forward Deployed Security Engineer",
    "track": "government",
    "postings": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 "new_grad_and_internship_by_title_text": {
  "method": "Classified from title text (new grad / internship). The dataset intern flag is false for every Palantir row in this snapshot, so do not use the intern column for these counts.",
  "intern_flag_true": 0,
  "new_grad_titles": 17,
  "internship_titles": 21,
  "new_grad_by_role_family": {
   "engineer": 14,
   "deployment_strategist": 3
  },
  "internship_by_role_family": {
   "engineer": 18,
   "deployment_strategist": 3
  }
 },
 "workplace": {
  "remote_listed": 0,
  "onsite": 62,
  "hybrid": 43,
  "other": 0
 },
 "location": {
  "us_located": 76,
  "outside_us": 29,
  "top_locations": [
   {
    "location": "Washington, D.C.",
    "postings": 25
   },
   {
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "postings": 24
   },
   {
    "location": "London, United Kingdom",
    "postings": 14
   },
   {
    "location": "Honolulu, HI",
    "postings": 7
   },
   {
    "location": "Seoul, South Korea",
    "postings": 5
   },
   {
    "location": "Chicago, IL",
    "postings": 5
   },
   {
    "location": "Fayetteville, NC",
    "postings": 3
   },
   {
    "location": "Tokyo, Japan",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Norfolk, VA",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Laurel, MD",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Kitsap, WA",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "San Diego, CA",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Paris, France",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Palo Alto, CA",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Sydney, Australia",
    "postings": 2
   },
   {
    "location": "Vilnius, Lithuania",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "location": "Oslo, Norway",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "location": "Madrid, Spain",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "location": "Miami, FL",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "location": "Colorado Springs, CO",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "location": "Munich, Germany",
    "postings": 1
   }
  ]
 },
 "travel": {
  "mentioned": 83,
  "mentioned_pct": 79.0,
  "pct_stated": 67,
  "pct_stated_pct": 63.8,
  "median_upper_bound": 75.0,
  "median_lower_bound": 25.0,
  "all_employer_median_upper_bound": 30.0,
  "all_employer_median_upper_bound_source": "fde-travel-2026-10-24.json median_upper_bound across 313 stating postings in the same 725-posting snapshot",
  "bands_normalized": [
   {
    "band": "25-75%",
    "postings": 32
   },
   {
    "band": "25-50%",
    "postings": 21
   },
   {
    "band": "25%",
    "postings": 10
   },
   {
    "band": "10-20%",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "band": "75%",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "band": "50%",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "band": "70-90%",
    "postings": 1
   }
  ],
  "note": "Normalized bands collapse en-dash and hyphen variants (for example '25 \u2013 75%' and '25-75%' both count as 25-75%)."
 },
 "posted_us_pay": {
  "note": "Posted ranges as published on US-located USD postings. Posted ranges are not offers.",
  "engineer": {
   "us_usd_postings_with_pay": 38,
   "ranges_as_posted": [
    {
     "pay_min": 135000,
     "pay_max": 200000,
     "postings": 23,
     "label": "$135,000 to $200,000"
    },
    {
     "pay_min": 135000,
     "pay_max": 145000,
     "postings": 10,
     "label": "$135,000 to $145,000"
    },
    {
     "pay_min": 110000,
     "pay_max": 147000,
     "postings": 3,
     "label": "$110,000 to $147,000"
    },
    {
     "pay_min": 125000,
     "pay_max": 185000,
     "postings": 1,
     "label": "$125,000 to $185,000"
    },
    {
     "pay_min": 125000,
     "pay_max": 200000,
     "postings": 1,
     "label": "$125,000 to $200,000"
    }
   ]
  },
  "deployment_strategist": {
   "us_usd_postings_with_pay": 21,
   "ranges_as_posted": [
    {
     "pay_min": 110000,
     "pay_max": 170000,
     "postings": 20,
     "label": "$110,000 to $170,000"
    },
    {
     "pay_min": 110000,
     "pay_max": 120000,
     "postings": 1,
     "label": "$110,000 to $120,000"
    }
   ]
  },
  "all_employer_us_engineer_median_midpoint": 216104,
  "all_employer_us_engineer_employer_once_median_midpoint": 208000,
  "all_employer_pay_source": "forward-deployed-engineer-salary page figures for 255 US engineer-title postings with pay in the same snapshot"
 },
 "comparison_to_snapshot": {
  "palantir_postings": 105,
  "all_in_page_stats_postings": 725,
  "share_pct": 14.5,
  "employers_in_snapshot": 121,
  "other_employers": 120,
  "palantir_remote_listed": 0,
  "all_remote_any": 199,
  "all_remote_any_pct": 27.4,
  "all_remote_source": "fde-locations-2026-10-24.json summary.remote_any (published on /fde-job-locations/ as 199 / 27.4%; wider than the postings remote_listed field of 191 / 26.3%)",
  "palantir_onsite": 62,
  "palantir_hybrid": 43
 },
 "posted_or_updated": {
  "note": "These 105 listings were live on the October 24, 2026 snapshot. The ATS posted_or_updated field (especially on Lever) can show dates years earlier for evergreen listings; it is not a posting-date range and should not be read as when the role opened. by_year below is the raw ATS field for reference only.",
  "by_year_ats_field_only": [
   {
    "year": "2009",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "year": "2013",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "year": "2014",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "year": "2016",
    "postings": 1
   },
   {
    "year": "2020",
    "postings": 4
   },
   {
    "year": "2021",
    "postings": 6
   },
   {
    "year": "2022",
    "postings": 11
   },
   {
    "year": "2023",
    "postings": 3
   },
   {
    "year": "2024",
    "postings": 9
   },
   {
    "year": "2025",
    "postings": 17
   },
   {
    "year": "2026",
    "postings": 51
   }
  ]
 },
 "method": {
  "source_file": "fde-postings-2026-10-24.json",
  "filter": "company == Palantir and in_page_stats == true",
  "script": "scripts/build-palantir-aggregate.py",
  "travel_upper_bound": "largest number in travel_pct_stated",
  "us_pay": "us_location true, USD, first posted range on the row"
 }
}