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Forward Deployed AI Engineer

TENEX.AI· FDE
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Hybrid (Kansas City, MO SOC), Hybrid (Sarasota, FL HQ), Hybrid (Scottsdale, AZ), Hybrid (San Jose, CA)Full-timePosted 4mo ago

About the role

Customer-embedded engineer who solves problems at strategic accounts by building AI, data, and security solutions that feed back into TENEX offerings.

Responsibilities

  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

Skills

Required:PythonAI/ML toolingSecurity operationsCustomer-facing communicationTechnical documentation
Nice to have:GoTypeScript

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and benefits package
  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms
  • Culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering
  • Be part of building something new — Forward Deployed Engineering as a greenfield opportunity to define enterprise security at scale
Last updated Aug 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About TENEX.AI

10x Your Cyber Security With Ai

With a focus on precision and scalability, TENEX delivers comprehensive cyber security solutions that evolve with your organization.

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