Tenex
Forward Deployed Engineer
Kansas City, MO SOC · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 49 days ago
TypeScriptPythonGoAWSGCPMachine LearningData EngineeringData ScienceCybersecuritySIEMSOARSOC OperationsDetection EngineeringCommunicationCollaborationProblem SolvingCISSP
About the role
- As a Forward Deployed Engineer at TENEX, you are a customer-embedded problem solver.
- Your work doesn't stay in one customer's environment
- Embed directly within assigned customer accounts to deeply understand their environment, workflows, and security challenges
Responsibilities
- You live inside strategic customer accounts, discover what is broken or missing, and build solutions - combining AI, data, and security expertise to ship things that matter.
- Follow the FDE engagement loop: Discover, Ideate, Document, Build, Ship - moving from problem identification to working solution with a bias toward action
- Build custom solutions tailored to customer needs - including automations, integrations, AI-assisted workflows, data pipelines, and security tooling extensions
- Collaborate closely with the AI & Data Science function - surfacing cross-customer intelligence needs directly from customer engagements
- Maintain a strong working relationship with customer technical stakeholders throughout the engagement
- Manage multiple active customer accounts concurrently, maintaining deep focus and high-quality output across each engagement
Requirements
- 3+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a technical customer-facing role
- Familiarity with AI/ML tooling, data pipelines, or data engineering concepts
- Knowledge of security operations, SIEM/SOAR, cloud security, or endpoint security
- Ability to rapidly prototype and ship working solutions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
- Strong programming skills in Python and/or another general-purpose language (Go, TypeScript, etc.)
- Experience working directly with customers to solve complex technical problems
- Strong technical documentation skills - you write things down so they can scale
Skills
- Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a bias toward action
- Excellent customer-facing communication and collaboration abilities
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance startup environment
- Passion for cybersecurity, automation, and continuous improvement
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
- Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering
- Apply combined expertise across AI, data, and security to solve problems that off-the-shelf tools cannot address
Compensation
- Competitive salary and benefits package
Company info
- We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection.
- Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
- As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture.
- Document solutions thoroughly so they can be reviewed, refined, and offered to other customers across the platform
This listing is sourced directly from Tenex's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.