Forward Deployed Engineer (Sports & Entertainment)

About the role

We're building the defense layer for the AI age and looking for a Founding Forward-Deployed Engineer to embed with elite sports, music, and live production environments. This role involves identifying and neutralizing real-world cyber-physical threats and converting those field patterns into scalable product capability.

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and ground truth
• Deploy globally for short, high-intensity engagements
• Operate reachback support between deployments, rapidly responding to reported threats and converting those interactions into system improvements that compound globally
• Diagnose threats on-site, developing countermeasures in real time, and brief stakeholders clearly under pressure
• Capture patterns and failure modes so improvements scale beyond any single deployment
• Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering works (rituals, playbooks, org design)
• Contribute to core product strategy and roadmap

Requirements

• 2-5 years working in environments involving real-world cyber-physical risk (Wi-Fi, BLE, rogue access points, IoT, robotics, embedded systems)
• Strong architectural thinking across mobile, backend, data, and infrastructure
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
• Ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on field feedback
• Engineering fluency - able to reason across software, networks, hardware, and adversarial behavior without supervision
• Clear communicator - able to translate messy field observations into structured product changes
• U.S. Person status (may involve export-controlled environments)

Qualifications

• Bonus if you've worked in elite sports, live production, or national-level events
• Used SDRs, packet capture, RF survey tools, or similar instrumentation
• Been forward-deployed or customer-embedded
• Built automation using LLMs or data-driven workflows
• Operated in an early-stage, high-ownership startup

Skills

• Strong architectural thinking across mobile, backend, data, and infrastructure
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments
• Ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on field feedback
• Engineering fluency - able to reason across software, networks, hardware, and adversarial behavior without supervision
• Clear communicator - able to translate messy field observations into structured product changes

Benefits

• Base salary up to $180,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and impact
• Total compensation includes equity, premium insurance, and individual benefits
• You'll join us on-site at our HQ in New York City, with frequent global travel

Pay

Base salary up to $180,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and impact.

Schedule

You'll join us on-site at our HQ in New York City, with frequent global travel.