Forward Deployed AI Engineer Job at TenEx, San Jose, CA

  • TenEx
  • San Jose, CA

Job Description

Forward Deployed Engineer

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at TENEX, you are a customer-embedded problem solver. You live inside strategic customer accounts, discover what is broken or missing, and build solutions — combining AI, data, and security expertise to ship things that matter. Your work doesn't stay in one customer's environment; it feeds back into what TENEX builds for everyone.

Job Responsibilities

Embed directly within assigned customer accounts to deeply understand their environment, workflows, and security challenges

Follow the FDE engagement loop: Discover, Ideate, Document, Build, Ship — moving from problem identification to working solution with a bias toward action

Build custom solutions tailored to customer needs — including automations, integrations, AI-assisted workflows, data pipelines, and security tooling extensions

Apply combined expertise across AI, data, and security to solve problems that off-the-shelf tools cannot address

Document solutions thoroughly so they can be reviewed, refined, and offered to other customers across the platform

Continuously identify and surface new problem areas, data opportunities, and intelligence gaps encountered during customer engagements — feeding these discoveries into the AI & DS function for evaluation and development

Collaborate closely with the AI & Data Science function — surfacing cross-customer intelligence needs directly from customer engagements

Maintain a strong working relationship with customer technical stakeholders throughout the engagement

Manage multiple active customer accounts concurrently, maintaining deep focus and high-quality output across each engagement

Escalate blockers or account risks to the Director or Staff-level engineers when appropriate

Required Skills & Qualifications
Technical & Industry Expertise

3+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or a technical customer-facing role

Strong programming skills in Python and/or another general-purpose language (Go, TypeScript, etc.)

Experience working directly with customers to solve complex technical problems

Familiarity with AI/ML tooling, data pipelines, or data engineering concepts

Knowledge of security operations, SIEM/SOAR, cloud security, or endpoint security

Ability to rapidly prototype and ship working solutions in ambiguous, fast-changing environments

Strong technical documentation skills — you write things down so they can scale

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills with a bias toward action

Excellent customer-facing communication and collaboration abilities

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-performance startup environment

Passion for cybersecurity, automation, and continuous improvement

Education & Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, GIAC certifications, Google Cloud Professional, Microsoft SC-200/AZ-500, or AWS Certified Solutions Architect are a plus

Why Join Us?

Opportunity to work with cutting-edge AI-driven cybersecurity technologies and next-generation security platforms

Collaborate with a talented and innovative team focused on continuously improving security operations

Competitive salary and benefits package

A culture of growth and development, with opportunities to expand your expertise in AI, cybersecurity, and engineering

Be part of building something new — TENEX's Forward Deployed Engineering organization is a greenfield opportunity to define how enterprise security is delivered at scale

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