Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal/National Security

Work directly with federal and national-security customers to understand mission workflows, build and deploy AI-enabled applications and workflow automation, and own delivery from prototype through production. Translate requirements into technical plans, integrate customer systems and infrastructure, debug deployed environments, and deliver secure, reliable, auditable systems.

Responsibilities

• Understand customer mission workflows, pain points, data environments, and constraints
• Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automation
• Translate customer needs into technical requirements, implementation plans, and product feedback
• Own delivery from prototype through production, including architecture, backend services, APIs, integrations, observability, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance
• Integrate customer systems, data sources, identity providers, and cloud or on-premises infrastructure
• Partner with product, engineering, security, and customer teams
• Debug deployed systems and drive resolution across application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers
• Contribute reusable engineering patterns, platform improvements, and documentation
• Operate with strong judgment in sensitive-data, government, and mission-critical environments

Requirements

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production-quality systems
• Experience with backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or applied AI/ML systems
• Ability to translate unclear requirements into working software
• Strong technical communication skills
• Ability to work across backend, frontend, infrastructure, integrations, and deployment workflows
• Strong ownership, bias for action, and ability to drive outcomes
• Strong debugging ability across application, data, infrastructure, networking, and customer systems
• Interest in national-security missions and willingness to work in secure or restricted environments
• Active U.S. Secret clearance
• U.S. citizenship
• Preferred experience with federal, defense, intelligence, or regulated customers
• Preferred experience with AI agents, LLM applications, workflow orchestration, retrieval systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, and observability

Benefits

• Fully remote work
• Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
• Unlimited paid time off
• 14 weeks of paid parental leave
• 401(k) option
• FSA
• Equity incentives
• Mental health benefits
• GLP-1 solutions