Forward Deployed Security Engineer

Summary

Clearly AI automates security and privacy reviews for enterprise customers, including threat modeling, privacy impact assessments, and vendor risk evaluations. The Forward Deployed Security Engineer will lead customer deployments, integrate the product into enterprise security workflows, optimize adoption, manage implementation projects, and translate customer feedback into product improvements.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end onboarding from signed contract → operational production usage
• Integrate Clearly AI into enterprise systems (Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence, GitHub, etc.)
• Configure review workflows aligned to each customer’s security processes
• Drive implementation timelines and ensure milestones are met
• Move customers from pilot → embedded operational usage
• Run structured weekly and monthly customer syncs
• Maintain clear agendas, owners, and next steps
• Track blockers and technical dependencies
• Coordinate closely with engineering on integration requirements
• Ensure nothing drifts between calls
• Operate inside real threat modeling, DPIA, and vendor risk workflows
• Identify automation opportunities within existing processes
• Help reduce review cycle time and operational backlog
• Ensure product usage maps to measurable security outcomes
• Conduct structured deployment reviews
• Translate workflow friction into actionable feature requests
• Log and manage feedback clearly in Linear
• Collaborate directly with engineering on requirements and edge cases
• Close the loop with customers when improvements ship
• Help triage inbound customer support issues
• Identify recurring patterns in bugs or workflow friction
• Build lightweight processes for tracking blockers and feature requests
• Create documentation and onboarding playbooks

Skills

• Seattle/SF preferred, remote OK
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
• 2+ years in GRC, privacy, or security engineering or as a security consultant
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, vendor risk assessments, or privacy reviews
• Experience implementing security tools into enterprise workflows, setting up integrations, and configuring tooling
• Strong cross-functional project management skills
• Ability to speak the language of security practitioners (STRIDE, DPIA, TPRM, CVE, etc.)
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams
• Ability to debug customer issues to identify root causes
• Prior experience as a forward deployed engineer or security consultant
• Deep familiarity with modern security workflows (AppSec reviews, privacy programs, vendor risk programs)
• Experience translating customer deployment challenges into shipped product improvements
• Familiarity with Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, Confluence integrations
• Demonstrated passion for security automation and operational efficiency
• Experience working in early-stage startups

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Seattle/SF preferred, remote OK
• Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
• 2+ years in GRC, privacy, or security engineering or as a security consultant
• Hands-on experience with threat modeling, vendor risk assessments, or privacy reviews
• Experience implementing security tools into enterprise workflows, setting up integrations, and configuring tooling
• Strong cross-functional project management skills
• Ability to speak the language of security practitioners (STRIDE, DPIA, TPRM, CVE, etc.)
• Experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams
• Ability to debug customer issues to identify root causes

Nice to Haves

• Prior experience as a forward deployed engineer or security consultant
• Deep familiarity with modern security workflows (AppSec reviews, privacy programs, vendor risk programs)
• Experience translating customer deployment challenges into shipped product improvements
• Familiarity with Jira, ServiceNow, GitHub, Confluence integrations
• Demonstrated passion for security automation and operational efficiency
• Experience working in early-stage startups

Benefits

• Equity
• Remote work is OK
• Direct path to leadership opportunities as the company scales