Clearly AI
1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Clearly AI. Curated with comp bands.
Comp on the board: $125K–$175K + 0.1–0.5% equity.
On the board since Sep 2026 · still hiring
Our take
Why Clearly AI
The clearest sign 'Forward Deployed' is becoming a title prefix, not a team — the FDE model grafted onto security and GRC consulting.
- FDE type
- Solutions engineering
- Travel
- Remote-first
- Comp
- Below market
- Stage
- Early-stage
A good fit if you're…
- Security engineers strong on GRC (STRIDE, DPIA, TPRM) over pure SWE
- People who want remote-first deployment work at Fortune 500 logos
- Early-career-to-mid engineers weighing equity upside against a lower cash band
What they do
Clearly AI (YC, $8.4M seed, an RSAC 2026 Innovation Sandbox top-10 pick) automates enterprise security and privacy reviews — threat models, privacy impact assessments, vendor risk — and deploys it into Fortune 500s reportedly including Okta, Rivian, and Affirm.
What “forward deployed” means here
The Forward Deployed *Security* Engineer owns end-to-end onboarding from signed contract to production adoption: integrating Clearly AI into enterprise systems (Jira, ServiceNow, Confluence, GitHub) and configuring review workflows to each customer's security process. The wanted skills — STRIDE, DPIA, TPRM — read GRC-heavy, the tell that this is FDE bolted onto security consulting. Remote (US), Seattle/SF preferred.
Comp & leveling
The board shows $125K–$175K plus 0.1–0.5% equity — the lowest cash band of this week's FDE cohort. Below-market on cash, so the case rests on the equity slice and the remote flexibility.
Growth signals
A seed-stage YC company with an RSAC Innovation Sandbox nod and named enterprise logos — early, but with real traction signals for an AI-security shop in a hot category. Upside is the bet; cash is not.
Analysis updated 2026-09-07
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