TENEX.AI

Forward Deployed Engineer

TENEX.AI
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3 months ago
Kansas City, MO, USA or Scottsdale, AZ, USAMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Embed within assigned customer accounts to understand their environments, workflows, and security challenges.
  • Follow the Discover, Ideate, Document, Build, and Ship engagement process from problem identification through working solution.
  • Build custom automations, integrations, AI-assisted workflows, data pipelines, and security tooling extensions.
  • Apply AI, data, and security expertise to solve problems that off-the-shelf tools cannot address.
  • Document solutions for review, refinement, and reuse across other customers.
  • Surface problem areas, data opportunities, and intelligence gaps to the AI and Data Science function.
  • Maintain strong relationships with customer technical stakeholders throughout engagements.
  • Manage multiple active customer accounts while maintaining high-quality output.
  • Escalate blockers and account risks to Director- or Staff-level engineers when appropriate.

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of experience in software engineering, security engineering, or a technical customer-facing role.
  • Strong programming skills in Python or another general-purpose language such as Go or TypeScript.
  • 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, problem-solving, troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills.
  • 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 preferred.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package.
  • Opportunities to expand expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering.
  • Greenfield opportunity to help define TENEX’s Forward Deployed Engineering organization and enterprise security delivery at scale.

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About TENEX.AI

201-500 employees

TENEX is the first AI-native, human-led MDR powered by AI SOC. Backed by 24/7 U.S.based expert analysts with 8+ years avg. experience. Our human-led, AI-driven platform delivers 10x faster detection, <1-minute MTTX, and 95% fewer false positives, transforming security operations economics while dramatically improving outcomes. AI handles 100% of alerts at machine speed, allowing our experts to focus on complex threats demanding human judgment. We scale through AI, not headcount, delivering premium outcomes without enterprise-level costs.

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