Forward Deployed Engineer

The role

You will own technical value realization for strategic customers by working inside their environments to understand AI workflows. You will build solutions including queries, integrations, and prototypes, then turn these into reusable product leverage.

What you will do

• Own technical value realization for a portfolio of strategic customers.
• Work directly inside customer tenants and systems to understand AI workflows.
• Interrogate traces using Origin's dashboard, SQL, ClickHouse, APIs, and MCP-based tools.
• Turn discoveries into queries, canvases, dashboards, signals, integrations, workflows, prototypes, and production code.
• Lead technical discovery with customer engineers, security teams, AI platform teams, and executives.
• Scope and deliver customer-specific solutions.
• Design and implement custom telemetry integrations, data adapters, analytical logic, and full-stack experiences.
• Partner with Deployment and Engineering to remove blockers.
• Write clear technical specifications and contribute to the codebase.
• Establish a concrete narrative of value for every engagement.

Required qualifications

• At least five years of experience building and delivering production software, data systems, security products, or technically complex enterprise solutions.
• Strong hands-on engineering ability across some combination of Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Rust, APIs, backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to independently explore unfamiliar, high-volume datasets and find meaningful signals inside noisy operational data.
• Experience working directly with demanding enterprise customers and operating credibly with both hands-on engineers and senior executives.
• The ability to decompose vague, high-level problems into a sequence of technical decisions and shipped artifacts.
• High agency.
• Strong product judgment.
• Clear, direct communication.
• Sound judgment under pressure and comfort making tradeoffs between scope, speed, and quality in ambiguous production environments.
• Strong follow-through.
• Genuine enthusiasm for working alongside customers.
• Daily fluency with modern AI development tools.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in forward deployed engineering, technical consulting, professional services, solutions engineering, or another customer-facing role where you personally shipped the solution.
• Early-stage startup experience or experience as a technical founder or early engineer who built a product from scratch.
• Experience building dashboards, detections, analytical workflows, or data products on top of high-volume event or telemetry data.
• Experience with enterprise identity, SSO, endpoint management, observability, SIEM/SOAR, cloud infrastructure, or security operations.
• Experience with AI agents, LLM applications, evaluation systems, MCP, model gateways, or agent observability.
• Operating system fundamentals across Windows and/or macOS, including processes, memory, system security mechanisms, and resource-constrained software.
• Background in security operations, incident response, red teaming, or endpoint security products such as EDR/XDR platforms.
• Experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure; Docker and Kubernetes and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform.
• Domain expertise in industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, supply chain, or technology.

Benefits

• Generous healthcare
• Flexible PTO
• Home-office support

About the company

Origin is building the endpoint AI observability platform for AI-adopting organizations. The company is backed by Sequoia Capital, Brightmind Ventures, IA Ventures and other top firms.