Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI

About this role

<div class="content-intro"><h3>Our Purpose<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>At SentinelOne, we are driven by a clear purpose: to give the advantage to those who secure our future. As AI reshapes how organizations build, operate, and innovate, the responsibility to protect them becomes more critical than ever. When you join SentinelOne, your work helps protect global enterprises, critical infrastructure, and the technologies shaping tomorrow. If you are motivated by meaningful challenges and want your impact to be real, measurable, and global, you will find purpose here.</p> <h3>About Us<strong><br></strong></h3> <p>SentinelOne is a company at the intersection of AI and security, pioneering a new operating model for cybersecurity. Our AI-native platform unifies protection across endpoint, cloud, identity, data, and AI systems to deliver autonomous detection and response with clarity and speed. By combining real-time analytics, intelligent automation, and a unified data foundation, we reduce noise, simplify complexity, and empower security teams to focus on what truly matters.</p> <p>Our teams are builders, problem-solvers, and innovators committed to shaping the future of security. If you are excited to solve hard problems alongside talented, mission-driven people, we invite you to help us build a safer future for humanity.</p> <h3><strong>What Are We Looking For?</strong></h3> <p>We’re looking for people who are relentlessly curious and committed to continuous learning. AI is reshaping every function across our business, and we enable every team member, regardless of role or level, to build fluency in AI tools and concepts. Those who thrive here actively seek out new solutions, experiment thoughtfully, and apply what they learn to drive better, faster, smarter outcomes.</p></div><p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">As a Staff Forward Deployed Engineer, AI, you will be tasked with extending SentinelOne's engineering capacity directly into the departments that need it most, including Sales, Customer Success, Finance, Security, People, Legal, and beyond. Unlike a platform or product engineer working behind a backlog, you will embed with the stakeholders who own a problem, scope it end to end, and ship a working custom application into their hands, often in days or weeks, not quarters. This role blends hands-on full-stack engineering, rapid prototyping with modern AI tools, and the judgment to know when to build, when to reuse, and when to say no.</p> <h3 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">What Will You Do?</h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Primary responsibilities include:</p> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc flex flex-col gap-1 pl-8 mb-3"> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Embed with a functional department for a defined engagement, running discovery to understand workflows and pain points before writing a line of code.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Scope, design, and build full-stack custom applications (not just automations or scripts) using modern frameworks, AI coding assistants, and internal platform APIs, moving from prototype to production quickly.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Own delivery end to end including architecture, build, testing, deployment, and the training and handoff that gets a department to actually adopt what you built.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Work hands-on in the code alongside AI coding tools (Claude Code, Codex, etc.) to compress build cycles, iterating with stakeholders in near real time rather than through long requirements documents.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Make explicit trade-offs between scope, speed, and quality as requirements shift, and communicate those trade-offs clearly to stakeholders and leadership.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Partner with IT, Security, and Data teams so every deployed application meets SentinelOne's standards for data security, compliance, and long-term supportability.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Codify recurring patterns, components, and playbooks from each engagement into reusable building blocks for the next department and for the broader engineering organization.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Feed field learnings back to platform, product, and data teams covering what worked, what broke, and what the next generation of internal tools should look like.</li> <li class="font-claude-response-body whitespace-normal break-words pl-2">Measure and report success through production adoption and measurable business impact, not lines of code shipped or tickets closed.</li> </ul> <h3 class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">What Skills and Knowledge Will You Bring?</h3> <p class="font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal">Ideal candidates will have:</p> <ul class="[li_&]:mb-0 [li_&]:mt-1 [li_&]:gap-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ul]:pb-1 [&:not(:last-child)_ol]:pb-1 list-disc…