
Cinder is the industry’s first Trust and Safety operations platform to help organizations combat Internet abuse at scale. We provide Trust and Safety teams with a single system to manage complex integrity operations and investigations to create a safe environment for their users.

Cinder is the industry’s first Trust and Safety operations platform to help organizations combat Internet abuse at scale. We provide Trust and Safety teams with a single system to manage complex integrity operations and investigations to create a safe environment for their users.
What they do: SaaS platform for Trust & Safety, content moderation, and responsible-AI operations
Founded: 2022
Headcount: ~30 employees
Notable investors: Accel; participation from Y Combinator
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Trust & Safety operations, content moderation, responsible AI data labeling
2022
Software Development
Investors listed in the round include Y Combinator, Outpost Ventures, Matt Kraning, and Accel
“Backed by venture investors including Accel and Y Combinator”
About Cinder
Cinder provides a cutting-edge platform to protect the internet. Trust & Safety teams at the world’s most influential companies need powerful solutions that allow them to innovate and adapt as quickly as the threats they face. Companies rely on our software to make policies, moderate, enforce, investigate, and disrupt threats like hate groups, and state-sponsored disinformation campaigns.
Cinder is seeking an experienced Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team. We’re building an enterprise-grade platform to make the internet safer and we need highly curious, hard-working self-starters.
This role is based in New York and will involve close collaboration with Cinder's teams in London and San Francisco. We also believe in the value of frequent in-person meet-ups and learning face to face. We offer health, vision & dental benefits and a 401(k) plan with employer matching.
What you’ll do
Forward Deployed Engineers (FDEs) at Cinder work directly inside our customers’ ecosystems — embedding with their Trust & Safety, engineering, and policy teams to deliver lasting impact. You’ll act as both a technical implementer and a strategic advisor, helping customers unlock the full potential of Cinder to solve their most critical safety challenge.
In this role, you’ll apply your problem-solving skills, creativity, and technical expertise to design and implement solutions that measurably improve internet safety outcomes.
Concretely, you will:
About You
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Why join us?
As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) at Cinder, you’ll be the bridge between our product and the people protecting the internet’s most vulnerable users. Your work will directly shape how our platform is deployed and used, enabling customers to respond to evolving threats with speed and confidence.
You’ll gain rare insight into, and actively contribute to, some of the most important internet safety issues globally. We’re building and implementing the most advanced content safety system, and our customers and partner organizations are some of the world’s largest enterprises. Expect a front row seat in tackling the hardest problems for some of the most sensitive, impactful issues.