Forward Deployed Engineer, East

The role

You will build and lead a core function by working with strategic customers to stand up deployments and prove value. You will act as a bridge between customer delivery, product, and security research to shape product evolution.

What you will do

• Define how to deploy, validate, and scale Ent within customer environments
• Bootstrap process, metrics, documentation and training for the FDE team
• Embed with design partners and early customers
• Lead initial deployments across various modules
• Drive fast time-to-value through hands-on configuration and problem solving
• Translate real customer workflows into durable deployment patterns
• Act as internal customer zero for product and engineering teams
• Identify gaps in usability, performance, and real-world applicability
• Provide actionable feedback to influence roadmap and prioritization
• Turn bespoke deployments into repeatable programs

Required qualifications

• Experience in working in real world environments, forward deployed engineering, CXE, solutions engineering, or similar roles in cybersecurity or infrastructure
• Strong technical foundation (endpoint, systems, security, or adjacent)
• Proven ability to operate directly with customers in ambiguous, high-impact environments
• Product intuition
• Builder mindset
• Ability to move fluidly between technical depth, customer engagement, and strategic thinking
• Experience taking early-stage deployments and turning them into scalable programs

Benefits

• Meaningful equity on top of salary
• Ent pays 90% of medical, dental, and vision, and 75% for dependents
• Flexible PTO
• 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• $100 monthly lifestyle account
• $500 home office stipend for remote employees

About the company

Ent is the intent-aware workspace security platform for securing human and AI-driven work. It is founded by the co-founders of RiskIQ and is in production with Global 2000 customers.