Forward Deployed Engineer (Product)

The role

You will own customer deployments of Watcher, a coding agent security product, from technical evaluation through production rollout. You will build integrations with customer environments, tune monitors, and act as the named technical contact for key customers.

What you will do

• Own customer deployments end to end: cloud, on-prem, and self-hosted backends, from architecture discussion through production rollout
• Build integrations between Watcher and customer environments, including coding agent setups, SIEM and security tooling, identity systems, and CI/CD pipelines
• Configure and tune monitors, policies, and permissions for each customer's workflows
• Debug issues in environments you do not control and drive them to resolution with the product team
• Run technical evaluations and POCs with prospects and demonstrate concrete value on their use cases
• Serve as technical counterpart to security and engineering leaders during evaluations
• Support security questionnaires, architecture reviews, and customer pen-test support during procurement
• Be the named technical contact for key customers and own their escalations and feature requests
• Build customer-specific capabilities where warranted and drive the decision on whether they should become product
• Create documentation, deployment tooling, and runbooks that make future deployments faster

Required qualifications

• 3+ years building and shipping production software
• Works across the stack, primarily Python and TypeScript
• Comfortable with cloud infrastructure, networking basics, and deployment tooling
• Communicates clearly with hands-on engineers and security leadership
• Stays calm and constructive under pressure
• High agency and ownership; follows problems through to resolution
• Comfortable with a fast-moving startup pace and changing priorities
• Judgment to distinguish custom work, product work, and requests to push back on
• Strong written communication for deployment docs, incident updates, and POC reports
• Comfortable using AI heavily for engineering and customer work

Nice to have

• Prior FDE, solutions engineering, or professional services experience, especially at developer-tools, security, or infrastructure companies
• Experience deploying software into enterprise environments: on-prem, VPC, SSO/identity integration, security reviews, procurement
• Familiarity with the enterprise security stack (SIEM, DLP, endpoint tooling)
• Experience with coding agents such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, or building agent tooling
• Pre-sales exposure running POCs or technical evaluations
• Willingness to travel occasionally to customer sites

Benefits

• Market competitive salary and equity
• Competitive benefits
• Unlimited token budget for engineers
• Flexible work hours and schedule
• Unlimited vacation
• Unlimited sick leave
• Up to 6 months of paid parental leave
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision insurance
• Retirement savings with competitive employer matching (e.g. 401(k) for US employees)
• Lunch, dinner, and snacks provided on workdays
• Paid work trips, including staff retreats, business trips, and relevant conferences
• Yearly $1,000 USD professional development budget

Before you apply

• Visa sponsorship offered in both the UK and US, but not guaranteed for every role or candidate; if an offer is made, the company will work to find a visa route
• Interview process: screening interview, a 3-hour take-home test (AI tools allowed), 3 technical interviews, and a final interview with the CEO
• No general leetcode-style coding interviews
• Resumes are screened by a human; AI tools assist with screening

About the company

Apollo Research focuses on risks from Loss of Control, especially deceptive alignment and scheming in AI models. It also builds Watcher, a coding agent security product that secures agent deployments in companies.