Forus automates prior authorizations and medication access, helping providers get patients approved, find affordable options, and start treatment faster. Backed by Accel, General Catalyst and Redpoint.
About the role
As a Founding Security Engineer at Forus, you will build the security foundation for a company using AI to remove the barriers between patients and medicine. Our platform handles protected health information and powers time-sensitive access workflows across providers, payers, and life sciences partners. Security is therefore both a technical requirement and a prerequisite for earning the trust that lets us scale.
What they're looking for
- 7+ years in security engineering, grounded in a strong software engineering foundation. You design and implement systems, not just review them
- Deep, hands-on cloud security experience across AWS and/or GCP, including infrastructure as code and building security foundations rather than only configuring managed services
- Range across infrastructure, application, identity, and detection and response, with the judgment to operate as the first security engineer
- Experience protecting sensitive data at scale, experience with PHI, HIPAA, or similarly regulated data is a strong plus
- Comfort designing security controls for LLMs, AI agents, and the data flows around them
- A track record of moving quickly, finding shortcuts, and going to unreasonable lengths to deliver on goals
More about this role
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 85% of ZIP codes and partner with 9 of top 15 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 $300M+ 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....
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