Senior Forward-Deployed Engineer: AI Cyber Defense (Remote)

Fortress Information Security; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 172,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote and Hybrid working environment

Competitive pay structure

401(k) match

Flexible Paid Time Off

Parental Leave

Job summary

Fortress Information Security is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to work with U.S. power utility and government customers, delivering AI‑enabled security solutions in approved environments.

You will blend software/data engineering, cybersecurity analysis, and customer‑facing solution engineering to reduce risk, turn lessons into scalable capabilities, and present findings to executives.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years experience combining software/data engineering, cybersecurity analysis, and customer‑facing solution engineering at a senior or principal level.
• Hands‑on experience developing AI‑agentic workflows (LLM‑based automation, agent orchestration, retrieval‑augmented pipelines, or similar).
• Demonstrated ability to access, normalize, and analyze large, messy, multi‑source data sets to answer urgent operational questions.
• Ability to write pragmatic, secure, production‑appropriate code (e.g., Python or similar) in constrained or regulated environments.
• Strong executive communication skills, including presenting complex technical findings to customer leadership.
• Ability to operate independently in embedded customer environments and manage competing priorities.
• Must be eligible for a U.S. security clearance; successful completion of a background check is required.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with U.S. power utility and government customers to reduce cyber risk, improve visibility, and respond to AI‑assisted threats.
• Quickly understand customer processes, systems, data, cyber posture, and business constraints.
• Help customers answer urgent cyber questions, such as which products, vendors, components, assets, or supply chain relationships may be impacted by a newly announced threat or vulnerability.
• Access, export, normalize, and compare customer data across vulnerability management, endpoint detection, network topology, attack path tooling, asset inventories, software bills of materials (SBOMs), business impact analysis, and supply chain mapping.
• Write secure, outcome‑focused code, including agentic workflows and batch jobs, to surface insights quickly in approved customer or secure environments.
• Convert bespoke customer work into product requirements that Product Management can formalize into scalable software capabilities.
• Identify expansion opportunities by demonstrating customer value, shaping repeatable use cases, and connecting services‑led problem solving to embedded platform capabilities.
• Present findings clearly to customer executives, technical teams, and internal stakeholders.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Senior/principal level experience

AI-agentic workflows

Python

Data analysis

Cybersecurity analysis

Solution engineering

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering/Cybersecurity

Advanced degree or relevant certifications

Tools

SBOM tooling

Vulnerability management tooling

Endpoint/security tooling

Job description

Fortress Information Security is seeking a Principal Forward Deployed Engineer to work with U.S. power utility and government customers, delivering AI‑enabled security solutions in approved environments.

You will blend software/data engineering, cybersecurity analysis, and customer‑facing solution engineering to reduce risk, turn lessons into scalable capabilities, and present findings to executives.