Forward Deployed Engineer (Sports & Entertainment)

Sweep360•New York, NY

5h•$190,000•Onsite

About The Position

TL;DR — We’re building humanity’s defense layer for the AI age and looking for a founding Forward-Deployed Engineer to embed with elite sports, music, and live production environments — turning real-world cyber-physical risk into durable product capability. If you would have joined Fitbit or Nest on day one to build a new category — not polish an old 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 we rely on remain aligned with us. We're building that layer today by deploying alongside the world’s highest-stakes teams — Olympic delegations, F1 paddocks, halftime shows, global tours, studio productions, executive protection units. What we learn there becomes the foundation for a civilization-defining capability. We’re a small, talent-dense team with a bias for 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 a first Forward Deployed Engineer (Sports & Entertainment) at Sweep. Embed with security directors, league officials, production leads, and operators. Represent Sweep in rooms where trust matters more than titles. Operate discreetly behind the scenes of humanity's biggest moments where RF density, logistics complexity, and reputational risk are extreme. Operate as the connective tissue between customers and core engineers to solve never-seen-before cyber risks. Influence core product direction based on what actually breaks in the field. Build repeatable playbooks that scale beyond any single deployment.

Requirements

3–5 years building and shipping production-grade systems in ambiguous, real-world environments.
Strong architectural thinking across mobile, networking, data, and backend systems.
Ability to operate calmly in ambiguous, high-stakes environments.
Bias toward action — prototype, deploy, iterate.
Hands-on experience with BLE, Wi-Fi (802.11), RF, and device-level exploration in dense, noisy signal environments.
Clear communication—turning field observations into concrete product changes.
U.S. Person status required (may involve export-controlled data).

Nice To Haves

Used SDRs, packet capture, RF survey tools, or similar instrumentation.
Been customer-embedded or forward-deployed in national-level sporting, entertainment, or government environments.
Worked with LLMs, agentic systems, or data-driven automation.
Hustled in a founding or early-stage startup environment.

Responsibilities

Deploy globally for short, unpredictable high-intensity engagements (~40-60% global travel).
Diagnose real-world cyber-physical risk in dense environments.
Implement and validate countermeasures using Sweep, then convert repeatable patterns into product capability.
Capture patterns and edge cases so improvements scale system-wide.
Partner directly with core engineers to translate field reality into durable platform capability.
Shape how Forward Deployed Engineering works (rituals, repeatable playbooks, org design)