Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

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SentinelOne is seeking a Senior Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI, to extend engineering capacity directly into departments including Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Security, People, and Legal. The role involves embedding with stakeholders, understanding workflows and pain points, and building and deploying custom applications from prototype to production in days or weeks rather than quarters.

The role combines hands-on full-stack engineering, rapid prototyping with modern AI tools, and the judgment to determine when to build, reuse, or decline a solution.

Responsibilities

• Embed with a functional department for a defined engagement and conduct discovery to understand workflows and pain points.
• Scope, design, and build full-stack custom applications using modern frameworks, AI coding assistants, and internal platform APIs.
• Own delivery end to end, including architecture, development, testing, deployment, training, and handoff.
• Work hands-on with AI coding tools such as Claude Code and Codex to accelerate development and iterate with stakeholders in near real time.
• Make explicit trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality as requirements change, and communicate those trade-offs to stakeholders and leadership.
• Partner with IT, Security, and Data teams to ensure applications meet standards for data security, compliance, and long-term supportability.
• Turn recurring patterns, components, and playbooks into reusable building blocks for future engagements and the broader engineering organization.
• Share field learnings with platform, product, and data teams.
• Measure success through production adoption and measurable business impact.

Requirements

• At least 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design, build, and ship full-stack applications across frontend and backend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern backend language, such as Python, Node.js, or JavaScript, or a comparable language.
• Sufficient frontend development ability to build usable internal tools without a dedicated design or frontend team.
• Hands-on experience with AI coding assistants and LLM-based tools, including Claude Code, Cursor, or Codex.
• Working knowledge of APIs, webhooks, data structures, and integration patterns.
• Experience working directly with non-technical stakeholders, including scoping ambiguous requests, managing expectations, and delivering working solutions.
• Ability to operate autonomously amid shifting priorities across departments and problem spaces.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain technical trade-offs to functional vice presidents and engineers.
• Experience in a forward-deployed, solutions engineering, professional services, or startup generalist role with ownership from discovery through production is preferred.
• Exposure to enterprise security, compliance, or data governance requirements is preferred.

Benefits

• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Flexible time off, paid company holidays, and paid sick time
• Gender-neutral parental leave and grandparent leave
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Life and disability insurance
• Health and dependent care FSA
• Voluntary hospital, accident, and critical illness benefits
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• ARAG prepaid legal services
• Nationwide pet insurance
• Cancer Care program
• Global business travel medical insurance
• Home office allowance
• Mobile phone reimbursement
• Wellness coach and wellness/gym reimbursement
• Fertility coverage
• Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement

SentinelOne is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. This U.S. role participates in the E-Verify Program.