Forward Deployed Engineer
Armadin
About the role
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
Responsibilities
- Own customer deployments from pre-sales scoping through expansion.
- Build customer-specific integrations, workflows, and agent configurations.
- Translate customer requirements and constraints into deployment plans.
- Create runbooks, automation, and self-service deployment tooling.
- Share customer insights with Engineering, Product, and Research.
- Lead upgrades, scaling, and incident support for critical deployments.
Qualifications
- Experience as a forward deployed engineer, deployment strategist, solutions engineer, or similar role.
- Track record of owning customer outcomes in the field.
- Experience at a leading AI company or AI-native startup shipping LLM-powered products to customers.
- Strong software fundamentals and hands-on cloud and deployment experience, including AWS, Terraform, containers, and networking.
- Experience deploying software into customer-owned environments.
- Ability to build and own customer solutions through operational health.
- Fluency in applying AI and judgment about when to configure, extend, or improve the core platform.
- Computer Science degree, related degree, or equivalent professional experience.
Benefits
- Full health, dental, and vision coverage
- Meaningful equity ownership
- In-office meals
- Haircuts at the office
- Company-sponsored conferences and events
- 401(k), HSA, and FSA plans
- Flexible PTO
Skills mentioned
About Armadin
Armadin is an AI-native cybersecurity company focused on building the ultimate attacker. With AI-powered hyperattacks looming on the horizon, Armadin’s customers leverage our platform to proactively find and eliminate exploitable risk. Armadin’s swarm of AI agents operate relentlessly across the entire attack surface, uncovering real kill chains that require immediate action. Armadin is led by CEO Kevin Mandia and founders Travis Lanham, Evan Peña, and David Slater. Together, they lead an elite collective of red team specialists and AI systems engineers dedicated to protecting democracy by winning the cybersecurity arms race.