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

Files
  fde-saronic-2026-11-03.json  aggregate figures for Saronic's 9 in-page
                               engineer-only Forward Deployed postings:
                               software, senior software, build, electrical,
                               hardware, mechanical and intern title tracks;
                               years or skills lines from the posting texts;
                               C++/Rust/Python (and hardware Python/shell);
                               all on-site Ashby workplace labels; remote
                               (locations.py is_remote: 0 of 9) against 176
                               of 704 (25.0%); all US (Austin and/or San
                               Diego); travel mentioned on 4 of 9 with Build
                               50–70% and SWE 50%; equity_mentioned on 8 of
                               9; no posted pay ranges; U.S. Person /
                               export-control line on all 9; and a November
                               6, 2026 live check (all 9 still open)

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

Population
  The 9 Saronic rows with in-page = true among the 704 postings
  from 114 employers in fde-postings-2026-11-03.json. All 9 come from
  Saronic's public Ashby board, pulled November 3, 2026: Forward Deployed
  Software Engineer (Austin on-site; San Diego on-site); Senior Forward
  Deployed Software Engineer (Austin on-site); Forward Deployed Build
  Engineer (Austin on-site); Electrical Engineer - Forward Deployed (Austin
  on-site with secondary San Diego); Hardware Engineer - Forward Deployed
  (Austin on-site; San Diego on-site); Mechanical Engineer - Forward Deployed
  (Austin on-site with secondary San Diego); Forward Deployed Engineer
  Intern (Summer 2027) (Austin on-site, Internships & Co-Ops). Saronic ties
  Chalk, Cloudflare and Snowflake at 9 postings (12th by posting count; 11
  employers have more: Databricks 115, Palantir 105, Salesforce 51,
  Accenture 39, OpenAI 33, LangChain 16, Cognition 15, Cohere 13,
  ElevenLabs 12, Cursor 11, Scale AI 11).

Method
  Built by scripts/build-saronic-aggregate.py from
  fde-postings-2026-11-03.json and scripts/saronic-evidence-2026-11-06.json
  (hand-verified quotes and the November 6, 2026 America/Los_Angeles live
  check against api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/saronic).
  Track: title text. Forward Deployed Software Engineer (2); Hardware
  Engineer - Forward Deployed (2); Senior Forward Deployed Software
  Engineer (1); Forward Deployed Build Engineer (1); Electrical Engineer -
  Forward Deployed (1); Mechanical Engineer - Forward Deployed (1);
  Forward Deployed Engineer Intern (1). Buckets sum to 9.
  Travel: travel_mentioned true on 4 of 9; travel_pct_stated on Build
  (50–70%) and both Software Engineer seats (50%); Intern mentions travel
  with no percentage. Senior Software, Electrical, Hardware and Mechanical
  have travel_mentioned false. Do not invent a travel percentage.
  Pay: 0 of 9 snapshot rows list a numeric range. November 6 live
  compensationTiers are empty on all 9. Texts state competitive salary
  boilerplate without a dollar figure. Never invent dollar pay.
  Equity: equity_mentioned true on 8 of 9 (false only on the Intern).
  Live texts on those eight state equity options. No grant sizes.
  Remote: aeo/fde-tracker/locations.py is_remote (board marks posting
  remote (Greenhouse flags excluded) or a listed location contains
  Remote; Coinbase Remote Zone excluded). is_remote is true on 0 of 9
  rows against 176 of 704 (25.0%) snapshot-wide. Ashby workplace label is
  on-site on all 9.
  U.S. Person / export control: every November 6 text includes the same
  U.S. Person / export-controlled information block. No posting uses the
  words security clearance, Secret, TS/SCI, or ITAR.
  Live check (November 6, 2026, America/Los_Angeles): all 9 snapshot
  Saronic in-page rows were still listed among 269 total jobs on the
  saronic board. No new FDE-family posting had opened since November 3.
  No closures. Evidence links point to jobs.ashbyhq.com/saronic/<id>
  (HTTP 200 on November 6).
  Snapshot comparison: 176 of 704 in-page postings are remote by the
  same is_remote method (25.0%).

Caveats
  Counts are open postings on a public board on one day and do not
  measure headcount. Matching is by title only. Nine postings are
  too few for employer-level rates.
  FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Saronic. Figures come
  from Saronic 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
  Evidence list: scripts/saronic-evidence-2026-11-06.json

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