Forward Deployed Engineer (Security)

present of AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Tracecat is seeking a hands-on Security Automation engineer in New York, NY for a full-time role. You will work with customer security teams to learn how they respond to risk and then build agents and integrations that automate those workflows.

A strong candidate writes solid code across the stack and can identify when a customer fix should become a reusable product feature. You will contribute to an open source platform for security automation, focusing on agent development, data pipelines, and

Qualifications

• Security investigation experience required or strong background.
• Solid coding across the stack with security context.
• Experience building agents and integrations for automation.
• Ability to translate customer needs into reusable features.

Responsibilities

• Work with customer security teams to observe investigation and response workflows.
• Build agents and integrations that automate repetitive security tasks.
• Evaluate agent accuracy, failure modes, and analyst experience.
• Ensure actions are auditable and approvals are in place.

Skills

Security investigation

Python integrations

Agent projects

Automation evaluation

Requirements to features

Job description

Customer & Solutions · New York, NY, US · Full-time

This role mixes hands-on security work with software building. The person sits with customer security teams, learns how they investigate and respond to risk, then builds the agents and integrations that automate that work. A strong candidate has a real security background, writes solid code across the stack, and can spot when a one-off customer fix should become a reusable product feature.

How it fits the AI era

Agents take on the repetitive parts of security operations, such as gathering evidence, checking context and recommending next steps, so analysts can spend time on harder calls. The human side stays important: deciding what an agent is allowed to do, judging when its answer is wrong, and keeping actions auditable and approved. This role sits right at that line, setting up agents that are trustworthy enough for sensitive environments.

How it builds AI experience

The work involves building agents, tool connections and data pipelines on an open source platform made for security automation, so hands‑on agent experience comes with the job. Evaluating agents for accuracy, failure modes and analyst experience is a skill that carries well beyond this company. Someone preparing could build a small agent that triages alerts, add approval steps, and test it against sample cases.

Worth showing

• Security investigation experience
• Python integrations and APIs
• Agent or MCP tool projects
• Evaluating automation for accuracy
• Turning customer needs into features

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About Tracecat

Tracecat is an open source security automation platform that lets security teams build AI agents and workflows to automate cyber defense, per the company.