Forward Deployed Engineer

TENEX.AI

Embedded engineer working with customers to solve cybersecurity challenges using AI and data expertise. Collaborating with teams to build solutions and enhance security posture.

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

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudCyber SecurityGoPythonTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Embed directly within assigned customer accounts to deeply understand their environment, workflows, and security challenges
Follow the FDE engagement loop: Discover, Ideate, Document, Build, Ship — moving from problem identification to working solution with a bias toward action
Build custom solutions tailored to customer needs — including automations, integrations, AI-assisted workflows, data pipelines, and security tooling extensions
Apply combined expertise across AI, data, and security to solve problems that off-the-shelf tools cannot address
Document solutions thoroughly so they can be reviewed, refined, and offered to other customers across the platform
Continuously identify and surface new problem areas, data opportunities, and intelligence gaps encountered during customer engagements — feeding these discoveries into the AI & DS function for evaluation and development
Collaborate closely with the AI & Data Science function — surfacing cross-customer intelligence needs directly from customer engagements
Maintain a strong working relationship with customer technical stakeholders throughout the engagement
Manage multiple active customer accounts concurrently, maintaining deep focus and high-quality output across each engagement
Escalate blockers or account risks to the Director or Staff-level engineers when appropriate

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a technical customer-facing role
Strong programming skills in Python and/or another general-purpose language (Go, TypeScript, etc.)
Experience working directly with customers to solve complex technical problems
Familiarity with AI/ML tooling, data pipelines, or data engineering concepts
Knowledge of security operations, SIEM/SOAR, cloud security, or endpoint security
Ability to rapidly prototype and ship working solutions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
Strong technical documentation skills — you write things down so they can scale
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

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms
Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations
Competitive salary and benefits package
A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering
Be part of building something new — TENEX's Forward Deployed Engineering organization is a greenfield opportunity to define how enterprise security is delivered at scale

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Hard Skills & Tools

PythonGoTypeScriptAI/ML toolingdata pipelinesdata engineeringsecurity operationsSIEMSOARcloud security

Soft Skills

customer engagementproblem-solvingtechnical documentationcollaborationfocushigh-quality outputadaptabilitycommunicationrelationship managementprototyping

Certifications

CISSPCISMGIACGoogle Cloud ProfessionalMicrosoft SC-200Microsoft AZ-500AWS Certified Solutions Architect