CareerPlan

Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), Cyber - SF

San FranciscoFull-time2026-11-05 → 2026-11-09
Hybrid

Core

Build systems and tools that give defenders an advantage at scale, integrating AI agents into security workflows to support consequential security decisions for enterprise customers.

Role type

Senior IC Forward Deployed Engineer (Cyber)

Builds

Production security tools, agents, and workflows for enterprise software and core infrastructure

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI/ML, Enterprise Software

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Software engineering, security engineering, AI agent development, CI/CD pipelines, codebase navigation, technical communication

Preferred skills

Security curiosity/experimentation, security community engagement, application security, automated remediation, detection engineering, cloud/identity security, security research, agent security

Technologies

CI/CD, Sigma, YARA, Splunk, KQL, CodeQL, Semgrep

Responsibilities

Partner with customer security leaders to scope engagements and define success criteria; Lead technical design and implementation of security agents; Build evaluations for security tools; Guide production rollout and provide observability; Translate successful approaches into reusable tools.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC