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Founding Support Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
5 days ago
Salary
$180K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
Job Description
Founding Support Engineer
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Role Description As a founding Support / Forward-Deployed Engineer, you'll sit at the intersection of engineering and customers, deploying the product, solving hard technical problems in the field, and making enterprise customers successful. This is a solutions-engineering-heavy role for someone who is both technically excellent and genuinely comfortable in front of people. You'll join an established, professional environment rather than a first-engineer situation, with room to grow toward founder-level ownership. - Deploy and integrate the product into complex enterprise environments - Work directly with customers post-sale to ensure technical success - Solve hard technical problems across AI agents, MCP integrations, and security tooling - Serve as the technical bridge between customers and the engineering team - Help shape the forward-deployed / solutions engineering function as an early hire Qualifications - 5-6 years in a technical, customer-facing role (solutions engineering, forward-deployed engineering, or similar); exceptional candidates with a couple of years of experience considered - Strong computer science or statistics foundation and academic pedigree - Startup or consulting background with real time in front of customers - Demonstrated software / technical skills and the ability to operate in a professional, fast-moving environment - Consistent tenure without a pattern of short stints Company Description Our partner is an early-stage, fast-scaling startup building security infrastructure for the Model Context Protocol, protecting enterprises from data leaks as they adopt AI agents. Founded less than a year ago, they already have a multi-million-dollar pipeline, a deeply technical product, and backing from top-tier investors. The bar is high, the pace is fast, and the problems are genuinely hard.
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