Ikuto · 7 hours ago
Forward Deployed Engineer | Applied AI & Cyber Security
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Entry, Mid Level
$180K/yr - $300K/yr
2+ years expIkuto is a pioneering company in the applied AI and cybersecurity domain, seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy autonomous AI agents for enterprise infrastructure defense. The role involves collaborating with sophisticated organizations to design and implement AI solutions that enhance security workflows and bridge the gap between AI research and production deployments.
Information Technology & Services
Hiring Manager
Joshua Hill
Responsibilities
Design & Deploy: Build security-focused AI agents that reason over massive datasets and interact with complex enterprise systems
End-to-End Ownership: Lead the technical delivery for strategic customers—from initial data ingestion and transformation to production rollout
Agentic Orchestration: Experiment with and integrate the latest LLM models (text, voice, multi-modal) into real-world, high-stakes environments
Bridge the Gap: Work directly with customer security teams to adapt the platform to their unique stacks, then funnel those insights back to the core Product team to scale the platform
Qualification
Required
2+ years of professional software engineering experience (Python/TypeScript)
Comfortable tracing issues across multiple layers of a stack
Building robust, asynchronous data integrations
Ability to interact with customers and solve 'in-the-wild' problems
Prioritize customer outcomes over just 'shipping tickets'
Preferred
Experience with RAG pipelines
Experience with AI/ML frameworks (LangGraph, etc.)
Experience with Security Operations (SecOps)
Benefits
Significant Equity
Company
Ikuto
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2-10 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase