Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
SecurityScorecard10 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Responsibilities
- Deploy onsite with strategic customers to map security, risk, and compliance workflows and identify opportunities to reduce manual effort.
- Gather requirements from practitioners and executives and translate customer data, processes, and dependencies into technical solutions.
- Build AI-native solutions using LLMs, ML models, agentic frameworks, and modern AI tooling.
- Perform data analysis and data science work, including risk quantification, benchmarking, exposure modeling, and translating ratings into financial metrics.
- Design and deploy integrations, pipelines, and tools connecting SecurityScorecard with SIEM, GRC, ticketing, data warehouse, and other customer systems.
- Architect and deploy solutions across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments.
- Prototype rapidly, then harden solutions into supportable production-quality software.
- Bridge Product, Engineering, and customers by feeding field patterns into the product roadmap.
- Own technical relationships with key accounts through renewal and expansion alongside Customer Success and Sales Engineering.
- Travel to customer sites for workshops, technical deep dives, and go-live support.
Requirements
- 8+ years of software engineering experience, including significant customer-facing, forward deployed, or solutions engineering work.
- Hands-on experience building shipped solutions with AI, LLMs, agentic frameworks, or ML models.
- Experience building AI-powered products or features and a clear perspective on AI's impact on forward-deployed work.
- Working data analysis and data science ability, including turning raw data into actionable customer models.
- Ability to independently ship production code in fast-moving, ambiguous, customer-facing environments.
- Strong full-stack fluency across backend services, APIs, scripting, data pipelines, and integration patterns.
- Experience with REST, webhooks, SSO/SAML, and SIEM connectors.
- Architecture design experience across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
- Experience conducting enterprise discovery and scoping technical solutions with practitioners and executive sponsors.
- Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical details into business or financial impact.
- Prior cybersecurity, GRC, or risk management experience is a strong plus.
- Willingness to travel to customer sites, typically 20–40% depending on account load.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, unlimited PTO, parental leave, tuition reimbursement, and additional country-specific benefits.
- The role typically requires 20–40% travel to customer sites.
- SecurityScorecard does not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About SecurityScorecard
SecurityScorecard builds a SaaS platform that issues cybersecurity ratings and tools for third-party risk and vendor due diligence, used by enterprises, insurers, and public-sector bodies. Customers subscribe to monitor their own posture and that of suppliers, map findings to questionnaires, and support board reporting and underwriting decisions. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in New York, it continuously rates over 12 million companies and serves more than 25,000 organizations.