Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer, AI Security (Remote)

Aten Security; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly role

Periodic in-person collaboration

Travel for customer engagements

Job summary

Aten Security seeks a founding forward-deployed engineer to lead the technical path from customer discovery to secure production deployment of an agentic AI security platform.

Role focuses on the last-mile integration, ensuring customers can connect the product to agents, identity systems, tools, and audit destinations with minimal custom forks. Travel to customer locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Strong backend and systems engineering background with customer deployments.
• Experience delivering integration from discovery to production.
• Solid security and reliability judgment.
• Willingness to travel to NYC/DC/SF and other locations.

Responsibilities

• Integrate the platform through SDK, API, proxy, and MCP paths across varied customer environments.
• Build agent harnesses for model calls, context, state, tools, policy hooks, approvals, retries, timeouts, telemetry.
• Translate customer goals into security, privacy, reliability, performance, scale, and cost constraints.
• Package and validate deployment topologies for connected, customer-managed, and disconnected deployments.
• Develop deployment automation, diagnostics, runbooks, upgrade procedures, and rollback paths.
• Own PoC outcomes end to end, including success criteria, implementation, red teaming, acceptance tests, launch, and adoption.
• Convert repeated integration patterns into supported product interfaces and reusable playbooks.

Skills

Backend engineering

Production deployments

System integration

Security considerations

Customer-facing communication

Tools

SDK

API

Telemetry

Job description

Aten Security seeks a founding forward-deployed engineer to lead the technical path from customer discovery to secure production deployment of an agentic AI security platform.

Role focuses on the last-mile integration, ensuring customers can connect the product to agents, identity systems, tools, and audit destinations with minimal custom forks. Travel to customer locations is expected.