• As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Ascertain, you sit at the intersection of product, engineering, and real-world customer operations. • Your job is to understand that reality and help shape Ascertain’s product so it works in practice, not just in theory. • You’ll work closely with customers to translate their workflows and edge cases into production-grade solutions by integrating systems, extending workflows, and building features. • Just as importantly, you’ll identify patterns and feed them back into the core product so we solve problems once and scale. • This is a founding Forward Deployed Engineer role where you’ll help define the playbook with clear opportunities to grow into pod leadership.

• Design, implement, and manage Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions, ensuring secure authentication and access control across cloud and on-premises environments. • Enforce Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) principles and role-based access control (RBAC) policies to protect mission-critical systems. • Integrate IAM solutions with Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), and Common Access Card (CAC) authentication mechanisms. • Oversee IAM automation, ensuring streamlined provisioning and de-provisioning of user roles and permissions. • Submit the Identity & Access Management Compliance Report, detailing system configurations, access logs, and compliance status.

• Own the end to end audio workflow, from raw recordings to final mastered outputs • Perform professional editing, cleanup, restoration, mix, and mastering across dialogue, voice, and sound assets • Curate, clean, annotate, and structure high quality audio datasets for AI voice model training • Train, operate, and iterate on AI voice models across text to speech and voice to voice systems • Evaluate model outputs critically and refine datasets, prompts, and processing to improve voice quality • Act as the audio quality gatekeeper, ensuring consistency, clarity, and realism across all deliverables • Collaborate closely with AI engineers, developers, and creative teams to align technical outputs with creative intent • Define and document audio standards, workflows, and best practices • Troubleshoot complex audio and pipeline issues across different tools and formats • Stay current with emerging audio, voice AI, and production technologies and contribute to R&D efforts

• Architecting & managing secure, high availability systems, adhering to industry standards and following best practices. • Implementing, managing, & optimizing AVD solutions in CI/CD pipelines. • Designing & implementing approaches to continuously update & secure AVD resources. • Developing scripts to automate tasks and deployments in a cloud environment. • Documenting systems and processes for capability growth and improved team collaboration. • Learning and adapting to new Azure cloud resources, with opportunities for formal training.