Senior Associate, Cyber Forward Deployed Engineer

KPMG is hiring a Senior Associate, Cyber Forward Deployed Engineer for its Clients, Technology & Innovation (CT&I) organization, combining production engineering with AI-driven offensive security work.

What you'll do:

• Design, build and ship production-grade features in two-to-six-week cycles with direct user feedback.
• Run authorized red team and infiltration tests against client environments using frontier cyber models.
• Reproduce, validate and document zero-day findings while building custom tooling, evaluation harnesses and agentic workflows around security models.
• Contribute code fixes and remediate the technical debt behind identified vulnerabilities.
• Join stakeholder working sessions and demos, operating strictly within written rules of engagement.

What you'll need:

• 4+ years of hands-on software development with production experience on Azure, AWS or GCP.
• STEM bachelor's degree or five years of equivalent experience.
• Background in penetration testing, red teaming, vulnerability research or exploit development (published CVEs or OSCP/OSEP/OSCE3/GXPN a plus).
• Fluency with AI coding harnesses (Claude Code, Cursor, MCP), agentic frameworks and context engineering.
• Strong judgment on ethics, authorization and sensitive data; ability to travel domestically.

Full details and application on the official KPMG careers page.