Cinder
Forward Deployed Engineer
New York
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 343 days ago
LLMsAgentic AISalesCustomer SuccessCollaborationProblem Solving
About the role
- Trust & Safety teams at the world's most influential companies need powerful solutions that allow them to innovate and adapt as quickly as the threats they face.
- Companies rely on our software to make policies, moderate, enforce, investigate, and disrupt threats like hate groups, and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.
- Cinder is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities
- In this role, you'll apply your problem-solving skills, creativity, and technical expertise to design and implement solutions that measurably improve internet safety outcomes.
- Drive adoption of cutting-edge user protection measures at today's largest and most popular internet platforms
- Address technical challenges (bugs, missing feature, last mile-development, etc) or collaborate with our engineering and product teams to efficiently hand off projects.
- Collaborate with Customer Success to effectively triage and prioritize feedback from thousands of Cinder users.
- We're building an enterprise-grade platform to make the internet safer and we need highly curious, hard-working self-starters.
Requirements
- You have a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field or equivalent years of relevant work experience
- You possess a strong understanding of safety engineering and/or safety operations via firsthand experience in the space.
- You are a great team player who deeply values the power of working together
- You are an excellent listener who sees every interaction as a chance to learn
- You have been a product owner or engineer within a Trust & Safety, Integrity, or Fraud organization
- The more comfortable you are with enterprise data architecture and artificial intelligence, the better
Benefits
- We also believe in the value of frequent in-person meet-ups and learning face to face.
- We offer health, vision & dental benefits and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
- You are exceptionally comfortable with ambiguity and repeatedly take initiative - you thrive when dropped into unfamiliar situations, learning quickly, and finding ways to deliver value.
Company info
- Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Cinder work directly inside our customers' ecosystems - embedding with their Trust & Safety, engineering, and policy teams to deliver lasting impact.
- You'll act as both a technical implementer and a strategic advisor, helping customers unlock the full potential of Cinder to solve their most critical safety challenge.
- Transform internet platform safety by embedding directly with our most strategic enterprise customers to implement Cinder.
- Work directly with strategic customers to rapidly diagnose and solve their safety problems with technical and strategic solutions
- Serve as the subject matter expert on Cinder's platform and Trust and Safety practices for customers as well as industry and government agencies
- Alternatively, you've been an early technical hire (FDE, solutions engineer, or similar) at a high-growth SaaS company and successfully partnered with large enterprise customers to deploy technical solutions at scale.
- You maintain deep familiarity with AI/LLM-powered tools and AI agents, and the ability to guide customers on how to deploy them effectively in safety and investigation workflows.
- Your work will directly shape how our platform is deployed and used, enabling customers to respond to evolving threats with speed and confidence.
- We're building and implementing the most advanced content safety system, and our customers and partner organizations are some of the world's largest enterprises.
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