FDE Dispatch: Snowflake Forward Deployed Engineer index, November 3, 2026 snapshot Files fde-snowflake-2026-11-03.json aggregate figures for Snowflake's 9 in-page FDE-family postings: title tracks (Frontier Engineering, Migration, Applied AI, AI Deployment Strategist, Software Engineering Manager AI Migrations), years from the posting texts, languages and eval/RAG lines, Ashby departments, remote (locations.py is_remote), workplace type, US vs outside-US vs mixed, travel at 20% or 25% on six seats, posted USD pay on four seats, and a November 5, 2026 live check Used on https://fdedispatch.com/snowflake-forward-deployed-engineer/ Population The 9 Snowflake rows with in_page_stats = true among the 704 postings from 114 employers in fde-postings-2026-11-03.json. All 9 come from Snowflake's public Ashby board, pulled November 3, 2026. 7 are engineer-family titles (3 Frontier Engineering, 2 Migration, 2 Applied AI including Staff Applied AI Engineer (FDE)), 1 is AI Deployment Strategist (Tokyo), and 1 is Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (Forward Deployed) in Menlo Park. Snowflake ties Chalk, Cloudflare and Saronic 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). Staff Product Manager - AI FDE is adjacent non-engineering (in_page_stats = false) and is not counted. Method Built by scripts/build-snowflake-aggregate.py from fde-postings-2026-11-03.json and scripts/snowflake-evidence-2026-11-05.json (hand-verified quotes and the November 5, 2026 America/Los_Angeles live check against api.ashbyhq.com/posting-api/job-board/snowflake). Track: title text. Frontier Engineering (3); Migration (2); Applied AI (2); AI Deployment Strategist (1); Software Engineering Manager, AI Migrations (1). Buckets sum to 9. Travel: 6 of 9 rows set travel_mentioned with travel_pct_stated 20% or 25%. Strategist and Manager have travel_mentioned false. Pay: 4 of 9 rows list Ashby Salary annual USD (ats_pay_field). The other 5 have null compensation. November 5 board listing payloads had empty compensation objects; published ranges are the November 3 snapshot values. Never OTE; no currency conversion. 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 9 rows (NZ Frontier Engineering, NL/DE Migration). The other 7 are not remote, including Hybrid Menlo Park Principal, Senior Principal and Staff Applied AI, Hybrid Australia Migration, OnSite Warsaw, Strategist Tokyo and Manager Menlo Park. Departments (Ashby): Engineering on Staff Applied AI, Warsaw Applied AI, Principal, Senior Principal and Manager; Professional Services on Strategist, NZ Frontier and both Migration leads. Live check (November 5, 2026, America/Los_Angeles): all 9 snapshot Snowflake in-page rows were still listed. Staff Product Manager - AI FDE was still listed and remains outside totals. No new FDE-family posting had opened since November 3 beyond those 9 plus the Product Manager. Evidence links point to jobs.ashbyhq.com/snowflake/ (HTTP 200 on November 5). Snapshot comparison: 176 of 704 in-page postings are remote by the same is_remote method (25.0%), 363 of 704 carry a pay range, 424 of 704 mention travel. 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 Snowflake. Figures come from Snowflake 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 Management index: fde-management-2026-10-24.json Deployment strategist index: fde-deployment-strategist-2026-10-24.json Evidence list: scripts/snowflake-evidence-2026-11-05.json Credit Free to reuse with credit to FDE Dispatch and a link to the page above.