# Forward Deployed Engineer (Sports & Entertainment)

> Sweep360 · New York, United States · Full-time · Posted 2026-02-21

**Salary:** USD 150,000–180,000

**Workplace:** on_site

**Department:** Engineering

## Description

**TL;DR — We’re building the defense layer for the AI age and looking for a founding Forward-Deployed Engineer to embed with elite sports, music, and live production environments** — identifying and neutralizing real-world cyber-physical threats — and converting those field patterns into scalable product capability.

_If you want to invent a new category — not optimize an existing one — this is that role._

### Why Sweep?

As intelligent machines proliferate into every part of the physical world, humans still lack a defense layer to ensure the systems and devices they rely on remain aligned with them.

We’re building that layer by deploying Sweep alongside the world’s highest-stakes teams — F1 paddocks, Olympic delegations, global tours, halftime shows, studio lots, executive protection units — in environments where signal is dense, movement is constant, and failure is visible.

  
These environments are dense with unmanaged devices — rogue Wi-Fi, BLE trackers, smart glasses, sanctioned hardware, robotics, and embedded systems. What we learn there becomes product capability. What we build from that compounds across every deployment.

You'll join a small, talent-dense team with high ownership, high velocity, and low ego. We care deeply, move fast, and are here to build something that outlasts us.  
  
Together, we’ll redefine cyber-physical security for the AI age.

### What makes this role special?

-   Be our first Forward Deployed Engineer in sports and entertainment.
-   Operate at the intersection of engineering, product, and elite team operations.
-   Work directly with security directors, league officials, production leads, and crews.
-   Deploy in places where RF density, logistics complexity, and reputational risk are extreme.
-   Deliver discreetly in high-stakes environments where precision and judgment matter.
-   Influence core product roadmap based on what actually breaks in the real world.

### What we’re looking for

-   2–5 years working in environments involving real-world cyber-physical risk (Wi-Fi, BLE, rogue access points, IoT, robotics, embedded systems).
-   Strong architectural thinking across mobile, backend, data, and infrastructure.
-   Comfortable operating in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
-   Ability to prototype quickly and iterate based on field feedback. 
-   Engineering fluency — able to reason across software, networks, hardware, and adversarial behavior without supervision.
-   Clear communicator — able to translate messy field observations into structured product changes.
-   U.S. Person status (may involve export-controlled environments).

### Bonus if you’ve

-   Worked in elite sports, live production, or national-level events.
-   Used SDRs, packet capture, RF survey tools, or similar instrumentation.
-   Been forward-deployed or customer-embedded.
-   Built automation using LLMs or data-driven workflows.
-   Operated in an early-stage, high-ownership startup.

### What You’ll Do

-   Work directly with customers to understand workflows, constraints, and ground truth.
-   Deploy globally for short, high-intensity engagements (~40–50% travel).
-   Operate reachback support between deployments — rapidly responding to reported threats and converting those interactions into system improvements that compound globally.
-   Diagnose threats on-site, developing countermeasures in real time, and brief stakeholders clearly under pressure.
-   Capture patterns and failure modes so improvements scale beyond any single deployment.
-   Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering works (rituals, playbooks, org design).
-   Contribute to core product strategy and roadmap.

### How we select

-   Submit a short application
-   Complete a 20-minute intro call
-   Technical deep-dive and discussion of how you approach problems
-   Show us something you’ve built that makes you proud
-   References and offer  
      
    

### Final Facts

Base salary up to $180,000, depending on qualifications, experience, and impact.Total compensation includes equity, premium insurance, and individual benefits.  
You’ll join us on-site at our HQ in New York City, with frequent global travel.  
  
**Make history. Build humanity’s defense against machines.**

## Apply

[Apply at Sweep360](https://apply.workable.com/sweep360/j/CB0CA8A8DC/apply)

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