Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Cyber

The role

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Cyber builds and deploys AI-enabled security solutions with customers. You will lead technical discovery, write production software, and manage deployments in customer environments.

What you will do

• Lead technical discovery with customer security and engineering teams
• Define problem, architecture, and acceptance criteria
• Write, review, and debug production software connecting models, APIs, and security systems
• Choose tools and architecture for engagements
• Use AI coding tools effectively
• Own deployment and troubleshooting in customer environments
• Establish release, rollback, and operating procedures
• Threat-model AI-enabled workflows and test failure cases
• Build practical controls across prompts, data flows, APIs, and cloud services
• Produce documentation, interfaces, runbooks, and knowledge transfer

Required qualifications

• Deep practical cybersecurity expertise, including hands-on blue-team experience in detection, investigation, response, or defensive security engineering
• Strong software engineering skills including production code, integrations, debugging, testing, and maintainable system design
• A record of taking complex technical work from problem definition through deployment, validation, and operational handover
• Practical AI fluency, including effective use of AI development tools and judgment about model evaluation, failure modes, and human review
• Experience deploying and troubleshooting software in cloud or customer-hosted environments
• Clear customer-facing communication
• Senior technical judgment
• Ownership of useful outcomes, including verification, documentation, and adoption

Nice to have

• Additional depth in application security, AI agent security, security developer tooling, or purple-team and red-team work
• Consulting, professional services, forward-deployed engineering, or comparable direct customer delivery experience
• Experience with vulnerability remediation, investigation automation, identity and access controls, or secure AI integrations
• Experience in defense or other demanding security environments, or a record of creating reusable technical capabilities across engagements

Benefits

• Competitive compensation (base salary + performance incentives tied to client outcomes)
• Equity options in a growing AI services company
• Exposure to a wide range of industries and high-impact AI problems
• Travel opportunities for on-site client engagements (if desired)
• A collaborative, mission-driven team
• Fully remote work
• Ownership of substantive cyber engineering work

About the company

Eliza is a technology services company and Advanced-tier OpenAI partner that's dedicated to helping organizations build and deploy cutting-edge AI solutions. They work across industries to bring real-world AI applications to life.