Forward Deployed Engineer

About the Role The Forward Deployed Engineer at AHEAD deploys, integrates, and operationalizes next-generation security and AI capabilities in real-world customer and enterprise environments, bridging engineering, security operations, data, and customer success. What You'll Do

• Serve as the technical lead for deploying and operationalizing security and AI solutions in customer or enterprise environments.
• Translate business, operational, and security requirements into deployable architectures and implementation plans.
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders to ensure solutions are aligned to operational goals, compliance requirements, and long-term platform strategy.
• Act as a trusted advisor during onboarding, implementation, rollout, and optimization phases.
• Design and implement integrations across SIEM, XDR, SOAR, case management, data platforms, and AI-enabled tooling.
• Build and configure cloud-native data ingestion, normalization, and enrichment pipelines for security telemetry.
• Integrate APIs, webhooks, message queues, and automation workflows across identity, endpoint, cloud, network, and application ecosystems.
• Develop reusable deployment patterns, templates, and technical assets to accelerate future implementations.
• Operationalize AI and automation use cases within security workflows, including alert enrichment, triage support, summarization, clustering, playbook selection, and analyst copilots.
• Work with detection engineering and data teams to support implementation of behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and other AI-assisted security use cases.
• Help define data requirements, feedback loops, and operational guardrails needed to support effective AI outcomes in production environments.
• Ensure deployed solutions are practical, measurable, and aligned to analyst workflows and response objectives.
• Implement secure and governed automation for investigation and response use cases across heterogeneous environments.
• Support resiliency, observability, performance, and scale requirements for deployed solutions.
• Troubleshoot integration issues, deployment blockers, and production challenges in partnership with platform, cloud, and security teams.
• Improve reliability and maintainability through documentation, testing, monitoring, and standardized engineering practices. Cross-Functional Leadership
• Collaborate across Security Operations, Security Engineering, Detection Engineering, Data Science, Infrastructure, and product or customer teams.
• Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to best practices for implementation, delivery, and technical solution design.
• Provide field feedback to influence platform roadmap, product direction, and architectural standards. What We're Looking For
• Strong hands-on engineering skills with a deep understanding of SOC operations, cloud platforms, automation, and customer-facing delivery.
• Ability to translate complex requirements into scalable, production-ready solutions and deployment patterns.
• Experience deploying security and AI-enabled solutions in customer or enterprise environments.
• Excellent collaboration skills across security leaders, analysts, platform teams, data scientists, and infrastructure stakeholders.
• Proficiency with SIEM, XDR, SOAR, data platforms, APIs, webhooks, and automation workflows in heterogeneous environments.
• Familiarity with behavioral analytics, anomaly detection, risk scoring, and other AI-assisted security use cases; ability to define data requirements and guardrails.
• Strong communication, mentoring, and architectural design capabilities. Nice to Have
• Experience in AI-enabled security operations and analyst copilots.
• Background in detection engineering or data science.
• Prior experience with customer-facing delivery and platform roadmaps feedback. Compensation & Benefits
• Salary: USD 160000 - 200000 per year.
• Benefits include Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance; 401(k); Paid holidays; Paid time off; Paid parental and caregiver leave.