// STATE OF FDE
Track where Forward Deployed Engineering demand is forming.
This research program will monitor public FDE and adjacent Applied AI hiring signals without inventing a market-growth number from incomplete data.
Research status Baseline dataset in preparation
The first public briefing will be published after the dataset contains enough current records for transparent, reproducible observations.
// DATA MODEL
What the index will measure.
Hiring companies
Company, stage, industry, role family, posting date, and stated deployment responsibility.
Location and compensation
Published location, work model, salary range, and geographic concentration.
Technical demand
Cloud, model, data, application, security, and customer-facing requirements.
Time-series signals
New postings, repeated hiring, role changes, and category adoption over time.
// METHODOLOGY GUARDRAILS
Useful research requires visible limitations.
Publish collection dates, included role terms, sources, and deduplication rules.
Separate observed posting counts from estimates of total employment or market size.
Do not treat repeated, expired, or syndicated listings as independent demand.
Report compensation only where employers disclose a range.
Label directional observations separately from statistically defensible trends.
// CATEGORY SIGNALS
// APPLY THE SIGNAL
Hiring an FDE now?
Use the role and active production work to determine what should begin before the hire arrives.