Customer-Facing Forward Deployed Engineer (East)

Ent; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Distributed workplace

Equity on salary

Remote work stipend

Flexible PTO

Parental leave (14 weeks)

Lifestyle allowance $100/month

Home office stipend $500

Job summary

Ent is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and lead a core function at Ent. This role sits at the intersection of customer delivery, product, and security research, working directly with our most strategic customers to stand up real-world deployments and shape how our product evolves.

You will be a subject matter expert, turning complex environments into repeatable, scalable programs. Ent is redefining endpoint security around behavior and intent, and this role helps translate real

Qualifications

• Experience in real-world deployments with customers.
• Strong foundation in endpoint security and related tech.
• Ability to translate customer workflows into durable deployment patterns.
• Comfort working across product, customer, and security domains.

Responsibilities

• Define deployment, validation, and scaling within customer environments.
• Bootstrap process, metrics, documentation and training for the FDE team.
• Embed with design partners and early customers.
• Lead initial deployments across modules and security domains.
• Translate customer workflows into durable deployment patterns.
• Provide feedback that influences roadmap and product improvements.

Skills

Forward deployed engineering

Customer engagement

Endpoint security

Security research

Product intuition

Builder mindset

Job description

Ent is seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to build and lead a core function at Ent. This role sits at the intersection of customer delivery, product, and security research, working directly with our most strategic customers to stand up real-world deployments and shape how our product evolves.

You will be a subject matter expert, turning complex environments into repeatable, scalable programs. Ent is redefining endpoint security around behavior and intent, and this role helps translate real