Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Cyber

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead the technical discovery process with customer security and engineering teams.

• Identify problems, establish baselines, define architectures, set acceptance criteria, outline scope, assess dependencies, and evaluate tradeoffs.

• Develop, review, and debug production software that integrates models, APIs, telemetry, and security systems.

• Select tools and architectures appropriate for engagement, balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and cost.

• Utilize AI coding tools while maintaining ownership of code quality, correctness, and security.

• Take charge of deployment and troubleshooting in customer environments, which includes configuration, access, CI/CD, monitoring, and integration failures.

• Create release, rollback, and operational procedures.

• Address issues across system boundaries and highlight technical or delivery risks with actionable recommendations.

• Conduct threat modeling for AI-enabled workflows and test failure scenarios such as prompt injection, sensitive data exposure, and unsafe tool actions.

• Develop controls for prompts, data flows, APIs, and cloud services, ensuring least-privilege access, secrets protection, auditability, and human approval.

• Verify fixes, document limitations, and engage specialist reviewers when necessary.

• Communicate architecture, evidence, risks, and tradeoffs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Challenge insecure or impractical requests and propose alternatives.

• Collaborate with delivery and commercial partners on commitments and explore additional opportunities.

• Produce documentation, interfaces, runbooks, and facilitate knowledge transfer.

• Define operating ownership and criteria for handover.

• Transform proven solutions into reusable engineering patterns, evaluation cases, and playbooks.

• Provide technical guidance to colleagues.

⛳️ Requirements

• Extensive practical cybersecurity expertise, including hands-on blue-team experience in detection, investigation, response, or defensive security engineering, with specific instances of decisions and outcomes you have directly influenced.

• Strong software engineering capabilities that extend beyond security scripting, encompassing production code, integrations, debugging, testing, and maintainable system design.

• Proven track record of managing complex technical projects from problem definition through to deployment, validation, and operational handover.

• Practical fluency in AI, including effective use of AI development tools and sound judgment regarding model evaluation, failure modes, and human review processes.

• Experience in deploying and troubleshooting software in either cloud or customer-hosted environments.

• Solid understanding of identity and access management, APIs, delivery pipelines, and production observability.

• Excellent customer-facing communication skills with the ability to translate ambiguous requirements into concrete technical specifications and acceptance evidence.

• Senior-level technical judgment, ability to work independently, recognize tradeoffs, acknowledge expertise limits, and escalate material risks early.

• Accountability for meaningful outcomes, including verification, documentation, and adoption following the initial build.

• Additional expertise in application security, AI agent security, security developer tooling, or purple-team and red-team operations (preferred).

• Experience in consulting, professional services, forward-deployed engineering, or similar direct customer delivery roles (preferred).

• Familiarity with vulnerability remediation, investigation automation, identity and access controls, or secure AI integrations (preferred).

• Background in defense or other high-pressure security environments, or in creating reusable technical capabilities across engagements (preferred).

• Legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Must disclose whether employment visa sponsorship is required now or in the future.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive compensation package (base salary plus performance incentives linked to client outcomes).

• Equity options within a rapidly growing AI services company.

• Opportunity to engage with a diverse range of industries and tackle high-impact AI challenges.

• Travel opportunities for on-site client engagements (if desired).

• Be part of a collaborative, mission-driven team dedicated to the real-world impact of AI.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Ownership of significant cyber engineering projects with the chance to influence reusable approaches to AI-enabled security delivery.