OpenAI has 34 open jobs with "Forward Deployed" in the title. Twenty-five of them were posted since August 1, and seven went up on November 5 and 6. They're spread over 14 cities, and most of them sit in a department called Forward Deployed Engineering, which has 37 openings.

Palantir has 70, and its oldest open posting is a Forward Deployed Software Engineer listing dated December 2009. Cursor has 8, Anthropic has 8 and Adobe has 6. Of the ten companies I checked on November 8, only Ubisoft had none.

I didn't get this from a jobs site. Most company career pages run on an applicant-tracking system, and five of the common ones (Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workday, SmartRecruiters) serve the whole board as public JSON. It's the same endpoint the careers page calls. The data is sitting there, but nobody opens ten of those every Monday and compares them with last week.

So I pulled all ten in one run with ATS Job Board Scraper , an Apify Actor I wrote. The run made 19 requests, took 65 seconds and cost $1.63.…