Triage

Founding Engineer (Forward Deployed)

We captured this posting once, on 2026-05-22, and did not track it afterwards — so we cannot tell you whether it is still open.

Employer
Triage
Location
San Francisco Bay Area
Seniority
Not stated
Experience asked for
Not stated
Pay band
$170K – $250K

When we saw it

  • Posted 2026-04-17 — the date the employer published it
  • Archived 2026-05-22 — when we saved this copy

Found via LinkedIn — US keyword pulls.

Skills the posting named

deploymentsintegration architecturedeployment modetuningcustomer communicationintegration codingcustom detectorsdeployment scriptsrunbookspattern matchingsecurity review leadershipdrive

From the posting

Solutions · Full-time · San Francisco (with regular travel to New York) Triage is an applied research lab building adaptive security and safety alignment infrastructure for AI systems: defending against novel attack vectors and catching misalignment at inference-time in deployed systems. In December 2025, Triage raised a $1.5M pre-seed round led by BoxGroup. Our team is small, technical, and in-person in San Francisco. We like people who are truth-seeking, opinionated about the work, and move fast. About the Role We're hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical relationship with our enterprise customers. At Triage, FDE is not sales engineering and not customer success. It is the role that decides whether our technology survives contact with the environments we sell into. …

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