About us
Forus is building an AI-powered network that connects doctors, pharmacies, payers, and biopharma to accelerate new science to patients.
Our platform automates the complexity between a doctor prescribing a medicine and a patient starting treatment, including insurance coverage, financial assistance, and supply chain navigation. 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.
Forus has exceptional product-market fit and is growing rapidly through organic adoption:
Accelerating scale: We already support patients across more than 80% of ZIP codes and partner with 5 of the 10 largest biopharma companies in the world.
AI-native, durable model: Our business becomes stronger as AI improves, as every new doctor, patient, and partner makes the network more valuable.
Backing to build for the long term: We raised $160M+ from leading investors to build an exceptional team and unlock the full scale of the opportunity.
Our 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.
If we succeed, science will be the only limit to medicine.
All full-time roles are in person in New York.
About the role
As a Founding Security Engineer at Forus, you will own how we protect the sensitive healthcare data at the core of our business. We automate the access workflows that determine whether patients get the care they need, which means we operate on protected health information at scale. Earning the trust of providers, payers, and life sciences partners depends on getting security right, and you will build that foundation.
This 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 stand up detection and incident response, including the audit trails that prove how protected data is accessed. As the first security engineer, you set the technical bar for how Forus builds securely as we scale.
This 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.
If you join, you will:
Own cloud and infrastructure security (AWS, GCP): build guardrails, identity and network architecture, secrets management, and secure-by-default primitives.
Build security into the product: lead secure design and code reviews, harden authentication and authorization, and ship libraries and tooling that make the secure path the easiest one.
Own detection, logging, and incident response, including audit trails for how protected health information is accessed, and lead the technical response when something goes wrong.
Secure our corporate and identity surface: SSO, device and endpoint security, SaaS hardening, and access across the employee lifecycle.
Secure how our agentic AI systems handle sensitive data: designing isolation and data-flow controls and defending against leakage across our model pipelines.
Build the automation and "security as code" that lets engineers move fast, and implement the technical controls behind SOC 2, HIPAA, and HITRUST.
Partner with legal and GTM teams to translate compliance and customer requirements into controls that actually ship.
We'll be most excited if you have:
7+ years in security engineering built on a strong software engineering foundation. You design and implement, not just review.
Deep, hands-on cloud security across AWS and/or GCP with real infrastructure-as-code experience. You have built security foundations, not just configured managed services.
Range across multiple security domains - infrastructure, application, identity, and detection and response - with the judgment to operate as the first and only security engineer.
Experience protecting sensitive data at scale; familiarity working with PHI and HIPAA is a strong plus.
Comfort designing security for LLMs and AI agents.
A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals.
High NPS with your former teammates.
This 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.
Working with us
Forus is based in New York, with our full team working out of a beautiful and spacious office in SoHo.
We run as a high-trust environment with high autonomy, which requires that everyone is fully competent and operates in line with our principles:
Do the math. Be rigorous, assume nothing. Break problems down and reason from the ground up.
Expand the solution space. Be resourceful and audacious. Resist false constraints and push beyond the obvious before committing.
Spit it out. Speak directly, invite critique, avoid equivocation. We want right answers, not comfortable ones.
Raise the bar together. Hold a high standard for execution, push each other directly, and win as a team.
We 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.
We also provide rich benefits to ensure you can focus on creating impact (for full-time employees):
Fully covered medical, vision, and dental insurance.
Memberships for One Medical, Talkspace, Teladoc, and Kindbody.
Unlimited paid time off (PTO) and 16 weeks of parental leave.
401K plan setup, FSA option, commuter benefits, and DashPass.
Lunch at the office every day and Dinner at the office after 7 pm.
Our 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). Individual pay decisions are ultimately based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, geography, and balancing internal equity.
Forus is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.