True Talent Solutions Partners

Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

California
Salary
$187,000 - $225,000 annually
Level
Mid
Work type
On-site
Visa
Not offered

Open. First seen 6 November 2026.

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About the role

About the Role

Join an early-stage cybersecurity team building tools to secure and control enterprise AI. You will combine hands-on software development with close customer collaboration, helping security and IT teams deploy the product while shaping its development.

What You'll Do

  • Run customer deployments and pilots, troubleshoot integrations in customer environments, and lead technical sessions with security and IT teams.
  • Build product features and integrations end to end across the stack using Python, Go, or TypeScript.
  • Own a broad range of hands-on engineering challenges as the product and team grow.
  • Turn customer feedback into product improvements and deliver them quickly.
  • Adapt to changing priorities and take on the work most important to the team.

What We're Looking For

  • Two to five years of experience as a forward deployed engineer or software engineer, with a track record of shipping production software.
  • Customer-facing engineering experience, such as forward deployed, solutions, or sales engineering, technical account management with an engineering background, or customer-focused founding engineering.
  • Experience with at least one of Python, Go, or TypeScript, along with knowledge of architecture, databases, and scaling.
  • Background in a fast-growing technology company, startup, or similarly rigorous engineering environment.
  • Exposure to cybersecurity, identity, or enterprise IT is valuable.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $187,000 to $225,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is not available.

Location

On-site in California, United States.

What this role asks for

Particular to this role

Cybersecurity · Golang

Rare in True Talent Solutions Partners's other 124 open postings.

Standard for solutions / sales engineering roles

Python

Common in solutions / sales engineering postings at any company.

Compared with True Talent Solutions Partners's other open jobs.

The team: Client Roles

This role is one of 127 open in Client Roles. 127 were posted in the last 30 days, including 6 lead roles: the team is hiring the people who run it too.

WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS

Python (74 of 127), TypeScript (49 of 127), LLM (46 of 127), React (42 of 127), Machine Learning (38 of 127), AWS (32 of 127), JavaScript (27 of 127)

OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM

From the team and dates on True Talent Solutions Partners's own job board.

Salary context

13 other open postings titled Founding Forward Deployed Engineer state a salary: median USD 180,000 to USD 250,000 a year.

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