chore(pipeline): close SDU + Google FDE III, triage 5 JDs, drop Louis Dreyfus

Pipeline:
- SDU PhD: closed, not proceeding. Prof. Jørgensen never replied to the
  2026-08-02 enquiry; user dismissed it two days before the 2026-08-20 deadline.
- Google FDE III GTM: closed, not proceeding after two Google rejections. The
  bar for a third attempt is now a very strong fit; this was Adjacent with an
  agent-orchestration gap. Frees the Adjacent cohort slot (back to 1/2).

JD triage — 5 pulled and read, 1 survives:
- SHORTLIST AWS Senior FDE Zurich: all four basic quals pass and AI/agentic is
  preferred-only, unlike the Google Senior Staff FDE where vector DB + RAG were
  minimum quals. AWS is the evidenced cloud; JD names Kiro, which he uses.
- SKIP AWS ProServe Bern (clinical pharma domain gate), AWS Principal Delivery
  Consultant (8+ yrs architecture leadership + VP+ exec comms), GitLab FDE EMEA
  (Ruby/Go hard gate), MS 200044133 (title says FDE Data Scientist, quals are
  BGP/MPLS/SD-WAN network engineering — mislabelled req).

Roster:
- Dropped Louis Dreyfus: 300 roles, all Brazil/India/Bulgaria ops, zero Swiss.
- Kept MET Group: its "0 eligible" was a filter artifact; exclusion mode reveals
  real Baar/Zug commodity-trading roles.
- Kept Equinor/Telenor/NATO. Memory corrected: the Norway lane is selective, not
  closed — the user still wants very good Norwegian roles.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

CLAUDE.md

@@ -157,8 +157,8 @@ _Update this section when starting/finishing a JD._
 
 | Session | Status | Next Command |
 |---------|--------|-------------|
-| Google — Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud GTM (French, German), Zürich (req 78350205438567110) | **PHASE 0 DONE 2026-08-11** — Adjacent, **Evidence Fit 67/100**, hard gate PASS (all 5 minimum quals hold; German alone satisfies the "French **or** German" requirement), Channel Weak. Level badge is **Mid**; user explicitly overrode level/comp 2026-08-11 (*"ignore fit, i would gladly accept a mid FAANG offer"*) — do NOT re-raise level. **Caveat:** responsibility #1 (lead developer, production agentic workflows / multi-agent / MCP) is a **Gap** — SW-8 forbids agent-orchestration claims; ADK/LangGraph/CrewAI are `never-used`. GCP also unevidenced (AWS-primary). Consumes the **last Adjacent cohort slot (2/2)**. Sibling req *FDE III, Generative AI* confirmed CLOSED. CL decision YES — its job is pre-empting the overqualification screen that killed Business Home in ~24h | Phase 1 — bullet plan (awaiting user confirmation of role type, format, framing) |
+| Google — Forward Deployed Engineer III, Google Cloud GTM (French, German), Zürich (req 78350205438567110) | **CLOSED — NOT PROCEEDING 2026-08-18.** Phase 0 was done (Evidence Fit 67/100, hard gate PASS) but user declined to proceed after **two Google rejections** (Merchant Data Science, Business Home): the bar is now that a Google req must fit *very* well to be worth a third attempt, and this one was Adjacent with an agent-orchestration Gap. **Frees the Adjacent cohort slot (back to 1/2).** Phase 1 never started. | Done — do not reopen without a materially stronger Google req |
-| SDU Center for Energy Informatics, Odense DK — PhD, Theme 2 Predictive Maintenance & Asset Management of Smart Energy Networks (job 4159) | **EXPLORATORY 2026-08-02** (deadline 2026-08-20). Real JD scraped via Playwright. Strong genuine fit: thesis = vibration condition monitoring, RBR+ANN hybrid, throughput-vs-sensor-rate finding; Bosch fab sensor data; Swisscom data products as AI foundation. **Hard constraint: DKK 37,075/mo ≈ CHF 56k — far below the 180k bar; user accepts this knowingly as a PhD.** Real blocker is 2 letters of recommendation (13 yrs out of academia). Top-30% doc does NOT apply (numeric grading) — do NOT submit the ECTS-B/top-35% certificate against it. No publications. **Enquiry email to Prof. Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen SENT 2026-08-02** (draft in `output/sdu_phd_energy_informatics/enquiry_email_joergensen.md`); asked two questions — industry-candidate viability, and whether non-academic letters of recommendation are acceptable. | Await reply. Critical path is the 2 LORs, not the documents — chase referees regardless of reply. Build an **academic-style CV** (education-first, not the 2pp industry resume) when the user gives the go-ahead |
+| SDU Center for Energy Informatics, Odense DK — PhD, Theme 2 Predictive Maintenance & Asset Management of Smart Energy Networks (job 4159) | **CLOSED — NOT PROCEEDING 2026-08-18.** Enquiry email to Prof. Bo Nørregaard Jørgensen (sent 2026-08-02) went unanswered for 16 days; user dismissed the idea. Genuine thesis fit (vibration condition monitoring, RBR+ANN hybrid) but the blockers were never the documents — 2 letters of recommendation 13 years out of academia, and DKK 37,075/mo ≈ CHF 56k against a 180k bar. Deadline was 2026-08-20. | Done — no further action |
 | Aker BP ASA — Data Product Architect, AI-ready Data Products (FINN 469067315) | **SUBMITTED 2026-07-30** (ahead of the 2026-08-02 deadline; Adjacent, **Evidence Fit 79/100**, Document Quality 93/100, hard gate PASS, Channel Weak; Stavanger/Oslo/Trondheim, English working language, no Norwegian and no clearance required, EEA work rights). 2pp resume + 1pp CL, both validator PASS. Honest practitioner framing: builds governed data products *inside* Swisscom's Data Mesh; role *authors* an enterprise framework — real level stretch, never fabricate authorship. **Atlassian Compass closed the catalogue-tool gap** (74→79). Remaining gaps: framework authorship, no energy domain, AWS vs their Microsoft/Cognite stack, **zero verified metrics**. | Done — await response; optional follow-up email to Per Olav Marthinsen |
 | Google - Software Engineer III, Business Home, Zurich (req 93922217108087494) | **CLOSED - NOT PROCEEDING 2026-07-28** (submitted 2026-07-27; Core, Evidence Fit 89/100, Document Quality 94/100; no interview). Rapid early-screen disposition; known risks were Mid-level versus current Staff scope, data/platform versus product-SWE positioning, preferred algorithms/accessibility gaps, and a cold channel. | Done - cohort rejection recorded; do not treat this outcome alone as a document-quality failure |
 | Microsoft — Principal Forward Deployed Engineer, SWE (German Speaking), Zürich (req 200043897) | **SUBMITTED 2026-07-27** (84.2/100 Pass 2; finalized 2-page resume + 1-page cover letter). Strong native-German, Staff progression, production ownership and enterprise-data-readiness case; honest gaps remain in end-to-end LLM delivery, Azure AI and strategic-account FDE experience. | Done — await response |

job_scout/scout.py

@@ -254,7 +254,13 @@ COMPANIES = [
         "_title_exclude": NOISE_TITLE_EXCLUDE,
     }),
     ("metgroup",  "MET Group", "smartrecruiters", {"company": "METGroup", "_title_exclude": NOISE_TITLE_EXCLUDE}),
-    ("ldc",       "Louis Dreyfus","smartrecruiters",{"company": "LouisDreyfusCompany", "_title_filter": ENG_TITLE_FILTER}),
+    # Dropped: Louis Dreyfus — 2026-08-18. 300 roles, every one Brazil/India/Bulgaria/Asia
+    #          operations (its Data Modeler reqs are in Bangalore). Geneva HQ but zero Swiss
+    #          postings in any run. MET Group is retained by contrast: once exclusion-mode
+    #          filtering replaced the allowlist, MET showed real Baar/Zug roles (Wholesale
+    #          Specialist, Lead Trade Process Analyst, LNG Financial Trader) — its earlier
+    #          "0 eligible across 1,464 scrapes" was a filter artifact, not an empty board.
+    #          No data/platform eng reqs there yet, but it is the live CH commodity-trading lane.
     # Equinor (Workday) — Norway energy major; lived/worked in NO before. Outlier location
     # policy: Norway only (not CH / Europe-remote). Small board (~15); no title filter.
     ("equinor",   "Equinor",   "workday", {
@@ -2051,7 +2057,7 @@ def main():
 #   ashby          kraken, openai, confluent, snowflake
 #   greenhouse     anthropic, gitlab, grafana, databricks, datadog, elastic, fivetran
 #   pcsx           microsoft
-#   smartrecruiters metgroup, ldc
+#   smartrecruiters metgroup
 #   rss            bis
 #   amazon         amazon (Amazon + AWS share one board)
 #   phenom         roche (Cisco still uses the playwright path)

job_scout/state/decisions.json

@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@
   "https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/gitlab/jobs/8522408002": {
     "company": "GitLab",
     "title": "Forward Deployed Engineer - Germany (Staff)",
-    "decision": "shortlist",
+    "decision": "skip",
-    "note": "Remote-CH eligible Staff FDE (Duo Agent Platform adoption, regulated/self-managed envs). CAUTION: JD body says 'strategic accounts in the APJ region' despite Germany title — clarify region/timezone with recruiter before tailoring. Gaps: Ruby/Go ideal, Terraform/Ansible/Helm expected (Kraken-style honest gap), GitLab-internals depth. Travel up to 50%.",
+    "note": "HARD GATE FAIL: 'Strong Ruby on Rails or Go experience and the ability to contribute directly to GitLab product code.' Stack is Python/Java. JD explicitly states this is NOT a generic field-engineering role - it is a product-codebase contributor role. Terraform also listed (known honest gap).",
-    "date": "2026-07-03"
+    "date": "2026-08-18"
   },
   "https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/jobs/results/135155660865053382-staff-research-generative-ai-cloud-ai-research-coscientist?location=Switzerland": {
     "company": "Google",
@@ -1767,5 +1767,33 @@
     "decision": "skip",
     "note": "CLOSED - req taken down. Live Playwright scrape 2026-08-11 returns 'Job not found. This job may have been taken down.'; also absent from the current Google Zurich board listing (32 rows). Never applied.",
     "date": "2026-08-11"
+  },
+  "https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10504263/senior-forward-deployed-engineer-aws-forward-deployed-engineering": {
+    "company": "",
+    "title": "",
+    "decision": "shortlist",
+    "note": "STRONG - best current fit. All FOUR basic quals pass (5+ yrs SWE, 5+ yrs programming, 5+ yrs leading design/architecture, mentor/tech-lead) and AI/agentic work is PREFERRED ONLY, not a minimum - the exact opposite of the Google Senior Staff FDE where vector DB + RAG were minimum quals. AWS is the evidenced cloud (claims.json forbids GCP output). JD explicitly names Kiro, which is in his real toolchain. Zurich, 30-50% travel (travel-OK, no relocation). Residual gap: agentic/multi-agent responsibilities vs SW-8 - a delivery risk, not a gate.",
+    "date": "2026-08-18"
+  },
+  "https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10450340/senior-proserve-cloud-architect-healthcare-and-life-sciences-hcls-awsi-sales": {
+    "company": "",
+    "title": "",
+    "decision": "skip",
+    "note": "Bern location is attractive but the domain gate is clinical pharma: CDISC SDTM/ADaM, eCTD, GxP, CTMS, EDC, regulatory submissions. No evidence in any of that. Location alone does not carry it.",
+    "date": "2026-08-18"
+  },
+  "https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10478293/principal-delivery-consultant-technical-lead-genai-ml-data-science-professional-servic": {
+    "company": "",
+    "title": "",
+    "decision": "skip",
+    "note": "Scored highest (7) but that is the SA/architect overscoring trap. Basic quals require 8+ yrs enterprise architecture delivery INCLUDING 5+ yrs leading technical teams governing architecture on transformation programmes, plus VP+ executive communication. Level, people-leadership and exec-facing gaps compound; preferred quals add HCLS pharma + vector DB/RAG.",
+    "date": "2026-08-18"
+  },
+  "https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/200044133": {
+    "company": "",
+    "title": "",
+    "decision": "skip",
+    "note": "MISLABELLED REQ. Title says Principal Forward Deployed Engineer - Data Scientist - German Speaking, but required quals are network engineering: BGP, MPLS, SD-WAN, IPv4/IPv6, Palo Alto firewalls, Azure Virtual WAN, DNS/DHCP, load balancers, IDS/IPS, Zero Trust. This is a network security/infra role. Complete mismatch - do not trust the title on Microsoft FDE siblings.",
+    "date": "2026-08-18"
   }
 }