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This role works directly with\nU.S. power utility and government customers to solve urgent cyber and operational risk challenges while turning those learnings into repeatable, productized capabilities. AI-assisted cyber threats are increasing demand for rapid, customer-specific analysis. Customers need to know whether their current defenses can withstand machine-speed vulnerability discovery, exploitation analysis, and attack path evaluation.\nThis role addresses that need through embedded, hands-on engineering: quickly understanding customer processes, systems, data, cyber posture, and constraints, then delivering working solutions in approved customer or secure environments. This is a seasoned, principal-level individual contributor role reporting into Customer Success. This is an ideal opportunity for a senior technologist who wants to work on the front line of AI-era cyber defense for critical infrastructure, combining deep technical delivery with executive-level customer impact and commercial judgment.\nTasks\nWork directly with U.S. power utility and government customers to reduce cyber risk, improve visibility, and respond to AI-assisted threats.\nQuickly understand customer processes, systems, data, cyber posture, and business constraints.\nHelp customers answer urgent cyber questions, such as which products, vendors, components, assets, or supply chain relationships may be impacted by a newly announced threat or vulnerability.\nAccess, export, normalize, and compare customer data across vulnerability management,\nEndpoint detection, network topology, attack path tooling, asset inventories, software bills of materials (SBOMs), business impact analysis, and supply chain mapping.\nWrite secure, outcome-focused code, including agentic workflows and batch jobs, to surface insights quickly in approved customer or secure environments.\nConvert bespoke customer work into product requirements that Product Management can formalize into scalable software capabilities.\nIdentify expansion opportunities by demonstrating customer value, shaping repeatable usecases, and connecting services-led problem solving to embedded platform capabilities.\nPresent findings clearly to customer executives, technical teams, and internalstakeholders.\nRequirements\n7-10 years experience combining software/data engineering, cybersecurity analysis, and customer-facing solution engineering at a senior or principal level.\nHands-on experience developing AI-agentic workflows (LLM-based automation, agent orchestration, retrieval-augmented pipelines, or similar).\nDemonstrated ability to access, normalize, and analyze large, messy, multi-source data sets to answer urgent operational questions.\nAbility to write pragmatic, secure, production-appropriate code (e.g., Python or similar) in constrained or regulated environments.\nStrong executive communication skills, including presenting complex technical findings to customer leadership.\nAbility to operate independently in embedded customer environments and manage competing priorities.\nMust be eligible for a U.S. security clearance; 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