Forward Deployed Engineer (Sports & Entertainment)

Responsibilities

• Work directly with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and ground truth.
• Deploy globally for short, high-intensity engagements (~40–50% travel).
• 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).

Nice-to-Haves

• 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.

Compensation

• Base salary up to $180,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and impact.
• Total compensation includes equity, premium insurance, and individual benefits.