FDE Dispatch: Shield AI Forward Deployed Engineer index, November 3, 2026 snapshot Files fde-shield-ai-2026-11-03.json aggregate figures for Shield AI's 8 in-page engineer-only FDE-family postings: London FDE II / Senior / Staff ladder, US Autonomy (open level), and Operations & Sustainment (open level); Lever+Ashby Autonomy and Ops cross-posts counted separately in the 8; years and C++/Python / Hivemind stack lines from the posting texts; remote (locations.py is_remote: 2 of 8) against 176 of 704 (25.0%); London Hybrid plus Autonomy US remote and Ops San Diego Hybrid with Remote in locations; travel 30% London / 50% US; posted US pay on Autonomy and Ops (Autonomy Senior $152,000 to $228,000; full Autonomy ATS $152,000–$318,000; Ops $156,000–$320,000); Ops export-control required + clearance preferred only; equity_mentioned on 4 of 8; and a November 7, 2026 live check (4 of 8 Lever API open; Staff 5021 closing; Ashby×2 + Staff R4962 closed) Used on https://fdedispatch.com/shield-ai-forward-deployed-engineer/ Population The 8 Shield AI rows with in-page = true among the 704 postings from 114 employers in fde-postings-2026-11-03.json. All 8 are engineer family. Titles: Forward Deployed Engineer II (5951) London Lever Hybrid; Forward Deployed Engineer, Autonomy (open level) United States Lever remote and Ashby cross-post; Forward Deployed Engineer, Operations & Sustainment open level (R5497) San Diego Lever Hybrid (all_locations includes Remote) and Ashby cross-post; Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (5961) London Lever Hybrid; Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (5021) London Lever Hybrid; Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (R4962) London Lever Hybrid. Shield AI ties Thomson Reuters at 8 postings (16th by posting count; 15 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, Chalk 9, Cloudflare 9, Saronic 9, Snowflake 9). No intern seats. No management seats. Method Built by scripts/build-shield-ai-aggregate.py from fde-postings-2026-11-03.json and scripts/shield-ai-evidence-2026-11-07.json (hand-verified quotes and the November 7, 2026 America/Los_Angeles live check against Lever HTML / Lever JSON API and Ashby URLs). Track: title text. Forward Deployed Engineer II (1); Autonomy open level Lever+Ashby (2); Operations & Sustainment open level Lever+Ashby (2); Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (1); Staff Forward Deployed Engineer (2). Buckets sum to 8. Dual ATS: Autonomy Lever+Ashby and Ops Lever+Ashby are the same role families cross-posted; the index counts them as 8 rows. In prose say dual-listed / cross-posted. Travel: travel_mentioned true on all 8; travel_pct_stated 30% on four London Lever seats and 50% on four US Autonomy and Ops rows. Pay: Autonomy Lever ATS $152,000–$318,000 with leveled Senior $152,000–$228,000 / Staff $181,000–$272,000 / Senior Staff $212,000–$318,000; Autonomy Ashby snapshot description $152,000–$228,000 (closed on live check); Ops Lever ATS $156,000–$320,000 with leveled Senior $156,000–$234,000 / Staff $182,000–$273,000 / Senior Staff $213,000–$320,000. London seats: no posted pay. Mid-lead features Autonomy Senior $152,000 to $228,000 only. Never OTE. Equity: equity_mentioned true on Autonomy Lever+Ashby and both Ops rows (4 of 8); false on the four London Lever rows. 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 2 of 8 rows (Autonomy Lever remote_listed; Ops Lever has Remote in all_locations) against 176 of 704 (25.0%) snapshot-wide. Export-control / clearance: Ops required export-control compliance line; Ops preferred active or prior security clearance or eligibility. FDE II / Senior / Autonomy open texts: no security clearance / Secret / TS/SCI / ITAR / U.S. Person block found in required quals. Do not invent a blanket U.S. Person rule. Live check (November 7, 2026, America/Los_Angeles): 4 of 8 Lever JSON API open (FDE II, Autonomy Lever, Ops Lever, Senior London). Staff 5021 Lever HTML 200 with Apply UI but Lever JSON API 404 (treat as closing; no live evidence link). Closed 404: Autonomy Ashby, Ops Ashby, Staff R4962. 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. Eight postings are too few for employer-level rates. Cross-posts are counted separately. FDE Dispatch is not affiliated with Shield AI. Figures come from Shield AI 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/shield-ai-evidence-2026-11-07.json Credit Free to reuse with credit to FDE Dispatch and a link to the page above.