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TENEX.AI

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer

TENEX.AI

Staff Forward Deployed Engineer leading AI Engineering team at TENEX. Overseeing complex solutions and mentoring engineers in a high-performance environment.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeKansas City • Kansas, Montana • 🇺🇸 United StatesLeadWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSCloudCyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • All responsibilities of a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, operating at the highest level of technical complexity and strategic account engagement
  • Serve as the technical lead and quality standard for the Forward Deployed AI Engineering team — reviewing solutions, setting architectural patterns, and ensuring consistency and excellence across all engagements
  • Own and lead the AI & Data Science function — building cross-customer intelligence systems that may include vulnerability prioritization models, configuration baselines, threat intelligence pipelines, detection optimization tools, and other areas identified through active FDE customer engagements
  • Ensure the feedback loop between FDE customer work and the AI & DS function is tight and continuous — no tickets, no handoffs, direct collaboration
  • Work with SE&A to operationalize AI/DS-built tools — ensuring what the team builds is something SE&A engineers can run and customers can benefit from
  • Define the technical direction for how FDE-built solutions are documented, packaged, and made available across the broader platform
  • Mentor Senior and Forward Deployed Engineers — elevating the team's technical bar across AI, data, and security domains
  • Partner with the Director on team strategy, hiring bar, and long-term capability development
  • Represent the FDE team's technical perspective in cross-functional conversations with Product, SE&A, and Rapid Deployment

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • 7+ years in technical roles with senior engineering or technical leadership experience
  • Expert-level programming skills with experience designing data pipelines, ML systems, or AI applications
  • Deep expertise across security operations, data science, and AI/ML domains
  • Experience defining technical standards, architectural patterns, and quality benchmarks for engineering teams
  • Proven track record building cross-customer intelligence systems or reusable technical platforms
  • Strong mentorship and knowledge-transfer skills
  • Experience operating at the intersection of customer problem discovery and internal platform development
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
  • Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, Google Cloud Professional, Microsoft SC-200/AZ-500, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect are a plus

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering

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Hard Skills & Tools
programmingdata pipelinesmachine learning systemsAI applicationsarchitectural patternsquality benchmarkscross-customer intelligence systemstechnical standardsvulnerability prioritization modelsdetection optimization tools
Soft Skills
mentorshipknowledge transferstrategic account engagementcollaborationteam strategytechnical leadershipcustomer problem discoverycommunicationorganizational skillselevating technical standards
Certifications
CISSPCISMGIACGoogle Cloud ProfessionalMicrosoft SC-200Microsoft AZ-500AWS Certified Solutions Architect