# FDE hiring this week: open roles slip to 631 as new postings and closures both rise > Companies posted 66 new roles and took down 75 in the week to 1 November 2026, against 23 and 37 a week earlier, FDE Times Hiring Tracker data shows. Original: https://fdetimes.net/en/analysis/fde-hiring-report-2026-11-02/ FDE Times Hiring Tracker data shows 631 open Forward Deployed Engineer roles on 1 November 2026, down from 634 on 26 October 2026. The small move in the total conceals a far busier week: companies posted 66 new roles and took down 75, against 23 and 37 the week before. The closing figure includes 6 roles that entered the count because the boards of 3 companies started being tracked: CrossCountry Consulting, P-1 AI and Red Cell Partners. That is wider coverage, not hiring growth. Leaving those roles out, the count fell by 9, after a fall of 14 in the previous period. ![Open FDE roles, day by day](/graphics/reports/hiring-2026-11-02/en/daily.svg) *Lighter: roles from newly tracked companies, not new hiring. Source: FDE Times Hiring Tracker, companies' own careers boards.* ## Postings and closures both rose while the open count barely moved The real change lies in the flows. The week of 19 October to 25 October 2026 brought 23 new roles and 37 closures; the week of 26 October to 1 November 2026 brought 66 and 75. With 2 comparable periods on record, this is a change between 2 weeks rather than an established pattern. Roles taken down during the week had been open for a median of 22 days, counted from the posting date the company gives. The number of companies with open FDE roles went from 96 to 95, with 12 companies gaining roles and 14 losing them. Since tracking began on 7 October 2026, 102 companies have shown at least 1 FDE role. ## Salesforce posted 28 of the 66 new roles; Databricks fell furthest Salesforce stands out for turnover: 28 new roles and 29 closed, while its open count moved from 33 to 32. Databricks closed 13 roles and posted 4, falling from 123 to 114, the largest drop among companies whose count changed. Databricks remains the largest employer on the tracker at 114, followed by Palantir at 106, a figure that did not change during the week. OpenAI rose from 31 to 32, level with Salesforce at 32. Among the risers, Clay went from 3 to 6 open roles, with 3 new and none closed. Analog Devices went from 3 to 5, BlackRock from 1 to 3, and UiPath and Lovable each from 2 to 4. On the other side, Thomson Reuters went from 7 to 4, while Faculty, Asana, Flexport and Oscilar.com ended the week with 0 open roles. ## Mid-level roles make up 54% of openings, and North America 57% Mid-level roles number 343, or 54%. Senior, staff and lead roles number 233, or 37%, and early-career roles 55, or 9%. ![Seniority of open roles](/graphics/reports/hiring-2026-11-02/en/seniority.svg) *Source: FDE Times Hiring Tracker, companies' own careers boards.* By type, Forward Deployed Engineer roles number 407, or 65%. Product, architect and lead roles stand at 84 and deployment strategist roles at 83, each 13%, while AI / ML FDE roles number 57, or 9%. ![What kind of FDE role](/graphics/reports/hiring-2026-11-02/en/roles.svg) *Source: FDE Times Hiring Tracker, companies' own careers boards.* North America has 359 roles, or 57%, Europe & UK 128, or 20%, and Asia-Pacific 86, or 14%. Among cities, New York leads with 68, followed by London with 46, while San Francisco has 33, Tokyo 11 and Singapore 10. Postings mark 154 roles, or 24%, as remote or open to remote work, though just 6 say remote without naming a place. ![Open FDE roles by region](/graphics/reports/hiring-2026-11-02/en/regions.svg) *Source: FDE Times Hiring Tracker, companies' own careers boards.* On pay, posted pay ranges in 215 postings in the US, from 39 companies, give a median midpoint of $216,000. The median low is $180,000 and the median high $250,000. Measured by midpoint, the 25th percentile is $168,000 and the 75th percentile is also $216,000. ## Python holds at 68% as AI agents slip to 58% Python is named in 427 roles, or 68%, the same share as a week earlier, when the count was 428. AI agents went from 376 postings, or 59%, to 369, or 58%. APIs went from 285 postings, or 45%, to 279, or 44%. LLMs edged from 234 postings to 235, holding at 37%. Machine learning fell from 223 postings, or 35%, to 211, or 33%, and now sits behind both JavaScript at 221 and TypeScript at 217. ![Skills most named in job descriptions](/graphics/reports/hiring-2026-11-02/en/skills.svg) *Source: FDE Times Hiring Tracker, companies' own careers boards.* The foot of the top-10 skills list changed as well. ETL / data pipelines entered with 161 postings, or 26%, while Azure, at 159 postings in the previous period, is no longer on the list. ## Methodology - **Source:** the official careers boards (Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever) of companies that hire FDEs, read several times a day. Only roles whose title names forward deployed engineering or deployment strategy count; 102 companies have had at least one such role since tracking began. - **Period:** 26 October 2026 to 1 November 2026, UTC. - **New roles:** roles first seen on the board of a company that was already tracked. Roles from a company whose board was just added are wider coverage, not new hiring. - **Closed roles:** roles the company took down. Days open are counted from the posting date the company gives. - **Role type and seniority** are read from the job title; **region** from the location in the posting. - **Pay:** only base-pay ranges published in US-located postings; the figure is the median of each range's midpoint. Full data for this edition: [/api/hiring-reports/hiring-2026-11-02.json](/api/hiring-reports/hiring-2026-11-02.json). Live, daily figures: [FDE Hiring Tracker](/en/fde-hiring/). Earlier editions: [FDE Hiring Reports](/en/fde-hiring/reports/). ## Sources - [FDE Times Hiring Tracker](https://fdetimes.net/en/fde-hiring/) - [Data for this edition (JSON, hiring-2026-11-02)](https://fdetimes.net/api/hiring-reports/hiring-2026-11-02.json)