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# Forward Deployed Engineer

- **Company:** TENEX SECURITY, INC.
- **Location:** Sarasota, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing Security, Cyber Security, Information Engineering, Security Information and Event Management, Software Engineering, Systems Integration, TypeScript, Google Cloud, Information Technology, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** June 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b4b668ac139b1acb

## About the Role

* 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

Soft Skills

 * Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a bias toward action
 * Excellent customer-facing communication and collaboration abilities
 * Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance startup environment
 * Passion for cybersecurity, automation, and continuous improvement

Education & Certifications

 * 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

## Description

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at TENEX, you are a customer-embedded problem solver. You live inside strategic customer accounts, discover what is broken or missing, and build solutions - combining AI, data, and security expertise to ship things that matter. Your work doesn't stay in one customer's environment; it feeds back into what TENEX builds for everyone., * 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


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