[Hiring] Forward Deployed Engineer @Huntress

Role Description

The Innovation team exists to transform how Huntress operates: delivering tangible, outsized business outcomes by reducing toil and increasing speed across the company. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you'll identify high-leverage opportunities, build working solutions fast, prove their value, drive adoption and training, and transition successful solutions to permanent owners. Then you'll do it again.

This is not a product engineering role with a backlog. You'll embed with teams across the company—engineering, sales, security operations, support—to understand their pain, prototype solutions, and ship things that change how they work. You'll operate with extreme autonomy in ambiguous problem spaces, and you'll be measured on business outcomes, not story points.

You act as a strategic catalyst, identifying the specific technical levers that will drive the highest return on operational efficiency. You look for patterns across the organization where a scalable solution can eliminate a category of toil. Whether you’re deploying an LLM-based triage system or a streamlined data pipeline, your focus is on creating a force multiplier effect: creating high-impact systems that empower teams to achieve outsized gains with their existing headcount.

Responsibilities

• Identify, pitch, and execute innovation projects that deliver measurable business impact; from concept through working prototype, through transition to permanent ownership.
• Embed with teams across the organization to understand workflows, diagnose bottlenecks, and build solutions that reduce toil and increase speed.
• Design and build full-stack solutions in a production codebase, integrating with existing infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Map complex systems end-to-end before building—understand how data flows, where failures happen, and what the second-order effects of a change will be.
• Create the playbooks, self-service documentation, and internal demos that enable teams to successfully adopt new workflows at scale.
• Transition successful projects to their permanent owners with the context and documentation needed for long-term maintenance.
• Gather signal directly from customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to inform what to build next.
• Prototype rapidly, validate with real users, and kill projects that aren't working.

Qualifications

• Ownership and agency.
• Systems first thinking.
• Founded or led a business that required you to build the product and acquire the customers.
• Prioritizes outcomes over tooling.
• Strong, full-stack engineering experience.
• Delivers in stages and transitions cleanly.
• Communicating across audiences without losing fidelity.
• Opinions about operational reliability.
• Thriving in ambiguity.
• Not afraid to fail.

Nice To Have

• Experience building internal tools or developer productivity tooling.
• Track record of driving AI/automation adoption in a non-engineering audience.
• Experience in cybersecurity and MSP/MSSP operations or security tooling.
• Familiarity with detection engineering, SIEM concepts, or identity security.

Benefits

• 100% remote work environment - since our founding in 2015.
• Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays.
• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans.
• 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution.
• Life and Disability insurance plans.
• Stock options for all full-time employees.
• One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office.
• Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance.
• $75 USD/month digital reimbursement.
• Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth.