Forward Deployed Engineer

Posted 2 Days Ago
Palo Alto, CA, USA
In-Office
Entry level
Artificial Intelligence • Cybersecurity
The Role
Deploy and customize Armadin’s AI-powered security platform in customer environments. Own deployments from pre-sales scoping through expansion, build integrations and agent workflows, support upgrades and incidents, create automation and runbooks, and translate customer feedback into product improvements. The role requires close collaboration with security, platform, DevOps, and executive stakeholders, along with strong software, cloud, networking, and operational deployment skills.
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About Us

At Armadin, we're a group of engineers, researchers, and security researchers on a mission to redefine what proactive security can do in the AI era. Cyberattacks are becoming autonomous and relentless and we believe defending against threats before they materialize is one of the most powerful ways to protect the institutions the world depends on.

We're building autonomous proactive security from the ground up, reinforcing the tradecraft of elite security practioners into purpose-built security models and agents that discover risk and remediate it before organizations are breached.

Led by Kevin Mandia, founder of Mandiant ($5.4B exit to Google), our team brings together researchers and engineers from Google, xAI, Meta, Stanford, Georgia Tech, Waterloo, Berkeley, and MIT to reinvent security for an adversary that never sleeps.

The Role

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Armadin, you'll embed with enterprise teams, deploy our agentic platform into their environment, and build whatever it takes to make it work for them. You're the person in the room when the customer hits a wall and the person who ships the fix that night. Your job is to make every customer feel like Armadin was built for them, then bring what you learn back into the product so the next deployment is faster than the last.

What You'll Do
  • Deliver the Magic: Own the customer journey from pre-sales scoping through deployment and expansion, making the first weeks feel effortless.

  • Customize at the Edge: Build customer-specific integrations, workflows, and agent configurations on top of the Armadin platform.

  • Embed with Customers: Work directly with security, platform, and DevOps teams and CISOs, turning ambiguous requirements and compliance constraints into shipped deployment plans.

  • Build the Playbook: Turn what you do by hand into runbooks, automation, and self-service tooling for every customer after.

  • Close the Loop with Product: Bring field signal back to Engineering, Product, and Research.

  • Own Operational Health: Lead upgrades, scaling, and incident support for our most critical deployments.

What You'll Bring
  • Forward Deployed DNA: You've worked as a forward deployed engineer, deployment strategist, solutions engineer, or similar, and have a track record of owning customer outcomes in the field.

  • Top-Tier AI Experience: Time at a leading AI company or AI-native startup where you shipped LLM-powered products to real customers.

  • Technical Range: Strong software fundamentals plus hands-on cloud and deployment depth (AWS, Terraform, containers, networking), including deployments into customer-owned environments.

  • Bias to Ship: You'd rather build a working solution on-site than write a requirements doc, and you own what you build through operational health.

  • AI Fluency & Judgment: AI shapes how you build, and you know when to configure, when to extend, and when to push a capability back into the core platform.

  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.

Even Better With
  • Early-stage experience building deployment operations, playbooks, and tooling from scratch.

  • Go, Python, or TypeScript services in production.

Benefits & Perks | FTE

🏥 Full Health, Dental, & Vision Coverage

📈 Meaningful Equity Ownership

🥙 In-Office Meals

✂️ Haircuts at the Office
🎉 Company Sponsored Conferences & Events

💸 401(k), HSA, and FSA Plans

🌴 Flexible PTO

 

Skills Required

  • Experience as a forward deployed engineer, deployment strategist, solutions engineer, or similar role owning customer outcomes in the field
  • Experience at a leading AI company or AI-native startup shipping LLM-powered products to real customers
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals
  • Hands-on cloud and deployment experience with AWS, Terraform, containers, and networking
  • Experience deploying software into customer-owned environments
  • Ability to build customer-specific integrations, workflows, and agent configurations
  • Ability to own deployed systems through upgrades, scaling, incident support, and operational health
  • Degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent professional experience
  • Early-stage experience building deployment operations, playbooks, and tooling from scratch
  • Production experience with Go, Python, or TypeScript services
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The Company
130 Employees
Year Founded: 2025

What We Do

Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company developing an agentic AI platform for continuous offensive security. Its technology acts as an automated red team, identifying and proving exploitable vulnerabilities across an organization’s entire attack surface. The company combines autonomous AI agents with human expertise to help enterprises discover hidden risk, strengthen defenses, and prepare for machine-speed cyberattacks before they become opportunities for adversaries.

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