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We provide this support free to doctors and patients, helping them get life-changing medicine faster, cheaper, and easier. The resulting network enables biopharma companies to design better research, launch new drugs more effectively, and invest in harder-to-treat conditions.\nForus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:\nAccelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 85% of ZIP codes and partner with 9 of top 15 largest biopharma companies in the world.\n\nAI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.\n\nBacking to build for the long term: We raised $300M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.\n\nOur number one priority is scaling to market demand. We are looking for individuals who are high horsepower, high throughput, and hyper resourceful to help us increase capacity and grow. We move fast and need to move faster.\nIf we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.\nAll full-time roles are in person in New York.\nAbout the role\nAs a Founding Security Engineer at Forus, you will build the security foundation for a company using AI to remove the barriers between patients and medicine. Our platform handles protected health information and powers time-sensitive access workflows across providers, payers, and life sciences partners. Security is therefore both a technical requirement and a prerequisite for earning the trust that lets us scale.\nThis is a broad, deeply technical role. You will own cloud and infrastructure security across AWS and GCP, build security into the product, secure how our AI systems handle sensitive data, and establish detection and incident response, including the audit trails that show how protected data is accessed. As our first security engineer, you will make foundational architecture decisions, build the secure primitives other engineers use, and set the technical bar for how Forus scales.\nThis is a demanding role, with a high level of autonomy and responsibility. You will be expected to act like an owner and commit yourself to Forus’ success. If you are low-ego, hungry to learn, and excited about intense, impactful work that drives both company growth and accelerated career progression, we want to hear from you.\nIf you join, you will:\nOwn cloud and infrastructure security across AWS and GCP, including guardrails, identity and network architecture, secrets management, and secure-by-default primitives\n\nBuild security into product architecture and development workflows through secure design reviews, code review, authentication and authorization hardening, and reusable tooling that makes the secure path the easiest one\n\nEstablish detection, logging, audit trails, and incident response for systems handling protected health information, and lead the technical response when something goes wrong\n\nSecure our corporate and identity surface, including SSO, device and endpoint security, SaaS hardening, and access across the employee lifecycle\n\nDesign isolation and data-flow controls for agentic AI systems, defending against sensitive-data leakage across model pipelines and tool use\n\nBuild the automation and security-as-code that lets engineers move quickly while implementing the technical controls behind SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.\n\nPartner with Legal, Compliance, and GTM to translate regulatory and customer requirements into practical controls that we can ship\n\nWe'll be most excited if you have:\n7+ years in security engineering, grounded in a strong software engineering foundation. You design and implement systems, not just review them\n\nDeep, hands-on cloud security experience across AWS and/or GCP, including infrastructure as code and building security foundations rather than only configuring managed services\n\nRange across infrastructure, application, identity, and detection and response, with the judgment to operate as the first security engineer\n\nExperience protecting sensitive data at scale; experience with PHI, HIPAA, or similarly regulated data is a strong plus\n\nComfort designing security controls for LLMs, AI agents, and the data flows around them\n\nA track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals\n\nHigh NPS with your former teammates\n\nThis is a list of ideal qualifications for this position. If you don't meet every single one of them, you should still consider applying! We’re excited to work with people from underrepresented backgrounds, and we encourage people from all backgrounds to apply.\nWorking with us\nForus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo. \nWe run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:\nDo the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up. Stay open to changing your mind.\n\nResourceful optimism. Assume problems are solvable. Be audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before deciding.\n\nSpit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones. All killer, no filler.\n\nRaise the bar. Hold a high standard for your pace and execution, and elevate the performance of the team around you. Mamba mentality.\n\nFight for users. Start with users’ realities, not ours. Resist optimizing for internal convenience over user outcomes.\n\nWe provide competitive compensation with meaningful equity (for full-time employees). Everyone who joins will be a major contributor to our success, and we reflect this through ownership and pay.\nWe also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees) :\nFully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.\n\nMemberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.\n\nUnlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.\n\n401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.\n\nLunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 6:30 pm.\n\nOur salary ranges are based on paying competitively for our company’s size and industry, and are one part of the total compensation package that also includes equity, benefits, and other opportunities at Forus (for full-time employees). 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