Forward deployed engineering · United States
What FDE job postings say
2,192 postings from 728 companies in Nextmove’s current US selection of FDE and related roles.
Source date: · 3 postings (0.1%) have outdated work details.
Includes related deployment roles. Counts describe postings, not unique requisitions, hires or the whole FDE market. Unknown values stay in every denominator.
Method and limits · Download current aggregate CSV
Model interpretation
Who does the work serve?
1,676 of 2,192 postings (76.5%) serve external customers.
External customers, internal teams, or both. Working with internal engineers alone does not mean serving internal teams.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 18 unknown or stale for this criterion.
1,676 postings · 76.5%
529 companies
339 postings · 15.5%
224 companies
159 postings · 7.3%
107 companies
18 postings · 0.8%
15 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Model interpretation
What kind of coding does the work involve?
1,702 of 2,192 postings (77.6%) describe production code as the main coding work.
The principal coding scope described in each posting. Production means code used in real work; prototypes means demos or proofs of concept; configuration means integration without substantive software development.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 61 unknown or stale for this criterion.
1,702 postings · 77.6%
629 companies
99 postings · 4.5%
63 companies
264 postings · 12.0%
163 companies
66 postings · 3.0%
45 companies
61 postings · 2.8%
45 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Model interpretation
Which project stages appear in the work?
2,133 of 2,192 postings (97.3%) include implementation / production work.
A posting can cover several stages. Counts and shares overlap and must not be added together.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 22 unknown or stale for this criterion.
613 postings · 28.0%
265 companies
793 postings · 36.2%
335 companies
2,133 postings · 97.3%
714 companies
1,655 postings · 75.5%
627 companies
22 postings · 1.0%
19 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
What work arrangements are recorded?
566 of 2,192 postings (25.8%) record hybrid work.
The arrangement extracted from each posting, not a company-wide policy. Remote can include location restrictions, travel or conflicting office language. Check the original terms.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 714 unknown or stale for this criterion.
520 postings · 23.7%
230 companies
566 postings · 25.8%
247 companies
392 postings · 17.9%
223 companies
714 postings · 32.6%
180 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Model interpretation
What responsibility level do postings describe?
1,673 of 2,192 postings (76.3%) are read as senior roles.
Our reading of the responsibilities in each posting, not the employer’s title. Junior means guided work, mid means independent delivery, senior means leading an ambiguous project through production, and staff+ means leading across teams or projects.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 26 unknown or stale for this criterion.
23 postings · 1.0%
14 companies
98 postings · 4.5%
68 companies
1,673 postings · 76.3%
614 companies
372 postings · 17.0%
222 companies
26 postings · 1.2%
22 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
Are these individual contributor or manager roles?
1,111 of 2,192 postings (50.7%) are individual contributor roles.
The extracted role type. Technical lead means leading work without people management.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 8 unknown or stale for this criterion.
1,111 postings · 50.7%
502 companies
970 postings · 44.3%
399 companies
103 postings · 4.7%
77 companies
8 postings · 0.4%
8 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Company profile · automatically extracted
What stage are the hiring companies at?
581 of 2,192 postings (26.5%) come from public companies.
The company’s funding stage from its profile, grouped into the same bands as the browse filter. Later private means Series D or later.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 370 unknown or stale for this criterion.
219 postings · 10.0%
108 companies
346 postings · 15.8%
147 companies
554 postings · 25.3%
160 companies
581 postings · 26.5%
119 companies
65 postings · 3.0%
30 companies
57 postings · 2.6%
27 companies
370 postings · 16.9%
137 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Company profile · automatically extracted
How large are the hiring companies?
414 of 2,192 postings (18.9%) come from very large companies with no headcount stated.
The company’s estimated headcount band from its profile. Bands without a headcount come from profiles that only describe scale in words.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 268 unknown or stale for this criterion.
91 postings · 4.2%
52 companies
235 postings · 10.7%
110 companies
211 postings · 9.6%
115 companies
174 postings · 7.9%
79 companies
393 postings · 17.9%
98 companies
31 postings · 1.4%
22 companies
197 postings · 9.0%
48 companies
88 postings · 4.0%
33 companies
90 postings · 4.1%
23 companies
414 postings · 18.9%
21 companies
268 postings · 12.2%
127 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
Do postings mention visa sponsorship?
180 of 2,192 postings (8.2%) say visa sponsorship is not available.
Only what the posting states. Most postings say nothing, and silence is not a refusal.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 1,942 unknown or stale for this criterion.
70 postings · 3.2%
19 companies
180 postings · 8.2%
54 companies
1,942 postings · 88.6%
670 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
Do postings mention travel?
904 of 2,192 postings (41.2%) mention travel.
Travel mentioned means a positive maximum or an explicit travel requirement or frequency. Silence is unknown, not zero travel. Conflicting extracted terms are also unknown; no frequency is converted into a percentage.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 1,280 unknown or stale for this criterion.
904 postings · 41.2%
303 companies
1,280 postings · 58.4%
537 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
How many years of experience do postings ask for?
403 of 2,192 postings (18.4%) ask for 3–5 years of experience.
The minimum years of experience stated in each posting. Postings that give no number, or whose extraction is outdated, are unknown.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 1,318 unknown or stale for this criterion.
105 postings · 4.8%
72 companies
303 postings · 13.8%
148 companies
63 postings · 2.9%
40 companies
1,318 postings · 60.1%
509 companies
Missing, unclear or outdated extraction; not evidence of absence.
Posting terms · automatically extracted
Technologies named in postings
1,242 of 2,192 postings (56.7%) name Python, the most named technology.
The 15 technologies named most often in posting text, counted once per posting. A posting can name many technologies, so counts and shares overlap. Postings without extracted keywords, or with outdated extraction, name nothing here.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 12 unknown or stale for this criterion.
1,242 postings · 56.7%
490 companies
489 postings · 22.3%
201 companies
441 postings · 20.1%
224 companies
337 postings · 15.4%
155 companies
336 postings · 15.3%
172 companies
334 postings · 15.2%
188 companies
321 postings · 14.6%
127 companies
283 postings · 12.9%
121 companies
256 postings · 11.7%
109 companies
249 postings · 11.4%
135 companies
242 postings · 11.0%
111 companies
228 postings · 10.4%
90 companies
221 postings · 10.1%
119 companies
205 postings · 9.4%
125 companies
191 postings · 8.7%
97 companies
Catalog count
Companies with the most postings
77 of 2,192 postings (3.5%) come from Deloitte US, the employer with the most postings.
The 15 employers with the most current postings in this catalog. The kind of work is the most common classification among that employer’s postings. Posting counts reflect how each employer lists roles, not headcount or hiring plans.
Denominator: all 2,192 postings, including 0 unknown or stale for this criterion.
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
77 postings · 3.5%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
70 postings · 3.2%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
68 postings · 3.1%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Implementation & delivery
57 postings · 2.6%
1 company
Example · Amazon (incl AWS)
Assoc Delivery Cons, AI/ML, A2C ProServe Shared DeliveryMost common kind of work: Production engineering
43 postings · 2.0%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
41 postings · 1.9%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
39 postings · 1.8%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
38 postings · 1.7%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
27 postings · 1.2%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
27 postings · 1.2%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
27 postings · 1.2%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
25 postings · 1.1%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
23 postings · 1.0%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
23 postings · 1.0%
1 company
Most common kind of work: Production engineering
17 postings · 0.8%
1 company
Crawl history · title rule
How many FDE postings appear each month
619 postings with FDE in the title were first seen in August 2026, compared with 400 in May 2026, across 4,240 tracked careers sites.
Bars: postings with FDE in the title, by the month Nextmove first saw them. Grey row: careers sites tracked by the end of that month.
Tracked careers sites increase over time as Nextmove adds employers, so part of any change is coverage, not the market. Counts are postings anywhere in the world whose title says FDE, not the reviewed US catalog above, and the month in progress is left out. The first month of crawl history is left out because it holds every posting that already existed when tracking began.
Monthly numbers
| Month | New postings | Companies posting | Open at month end | Tracked careers sites |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2026 · tracking began | 941 | 287 | 924 | 3,966 |
| May 2026 | 400 | 174 | 1,134 | 4,154 |
| Jun 2026 | 661 | 162 | 1,561 | 4,164 |
| Jul 2026 | 489 | 167 | 1,467 | 4,168 |
| Aug 2026 | 619 | 192 | 1,702 | 4,240 |
How to read and cite these counts
Source data indexed: . Catalog generated: . These are collection and catalog dates, not original posting dates or confirmation that a role is still open.
Definitions, selection limits and citation
- Scope: Nextmove’s current curated US FDE and related-role catalog. Employer coverage, supported careers sites, US eligibility checks and title or model-based selection affect what is included. This is not a representative sample or a count of the whole FDE market.
- The unit is one catalog posting ID. Separate postings can describe the same requisition. Company counts use the catalog’s company identity; they are not corporate-parent counts. Neither number measures hires, hiring plans or demand growth.
- Each share uses all 2,192 included postings as its denominator. Unknown includes missing, unclear and unsupported values. The 3 postings with outdated extraction (0.1%) stay in the denominator and count as unknown for every criterion. 0 invalid source records were excluded by catalog validation.
- Recipient, principal coding scope, project stages and responsibility level are model interpretations of job descriptions. Arrangement, travel, individual contributor or manager, visa sponsorship, years of experience and technologies are automatically extracted stated terms, not independently verified employer policies. Field-level source quotes are not retained in this catalog; use the original postings to verify details. Coverage is not accuracy.
- Responsibility level is our reading of the work, not the employer’s title. Years of experience is the stated minimum, bucketed. Technologies are keywords extracted from posting text, matched case-insensitively and counted once per posting. Company stage and size come from the company profile, in the same bands as the browse filter. Company posting counts use the catalog’s company identity and the most common classification among that company’s postings.
- “Both” is a separate recipient category. Project stages and technologies can overlap; other rows within a criterion are mutually exclusive. Each finding sentence reports the largest known value of its criterion. Examples illustrate a recorded value, not a representative sample or a Nextmove employer relationship.
- This page and its CSV use the same calculation over the cached catalog. They show current data and can change on refresh. Compare source and catalog dates when quoting; save the CSV you used. There is no fixed historical edition of these tables. The monthly series, where shown, counts FDE-titled postings worldwide from Nextmove’s crawl history and is not part of the CSV.
Suggested citation: Nextmove, “FDE hiring data: what US job postings say,” current curated US catalog, source data indexed , nextmove.md/fde/research. Include the criterion, count and denominator alongside any percentage.
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