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State of FDE 2026
An anonymous community survey on how the FDE role is defined, paid, staffed and trained. Results will be published free, in aggregate, for everyone.
What it will cover
- Role and background
- Compensation (optional, encouraged)
- Skills, tools and AI stack
- Customers and industry
- Career path
- Hiring and training
- Views on credentials
Who should take it
People working as FDEs or in closely related embedded-engineering roles now or in the last 24 months, people who lead FDE teams, and FDE hiring managers.
Time
About 10–12 minutes (estimate; confirmed in pilot).
How it feeds the framework
Results give early input to the framework’s job task analysis. They don’t replace it.
Our privacy commitments
- Anonymous. We won’t ask for your name, email or employer in the survey.
- Location only to country level, plus state/province (and US metro area). We’re focusing on North America (US, Canada, Mexico) first; responses from elsewhere are reported separately or left out if too few.
- We publish aggregates only. Any group with fewer than 10 respondents is combined or left out.
- We never sell responses or use them for marketing.
- If you want a copy of the report, you’ll use a separate form that can’t be linked to your answers.
Tell me when the survey opens.
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Leave your email and we’ll send one note when State of FDE 2026 opens.
Thank you for taking part. It takes about 10–12 minutes.