5h ago

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

United States

$148.8k-$201.3k / year

full-timemid Remotegovernment

๐Ÿ›  Tech Stack

๐Ÿ’ผ About This Role

You'll join a team building the backbone of modern defense software delivery, embedding with strategic customers as a technical partner. You'll architect, build, and deploy agentic Generative AI systems in cloud, on-prem, and edge environments. This role directly contributes to accelerating warfighter capability by delivering software updates in minutes instead of months.

๐ŸŽฏ What You'll Do

  • Embed with strategic customers as a technical partner from problem discovery to adoption
  • Architect, build, deploy, and operate agentic Generative AI systems and APIs
  • Work in cloud, on-prem, and edge/air-gapped environments
  • Scope, sequence, and lead delivery of solutions with living roadmaps

๐Ÿ“‹ Requirements

  • 3+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience in customer-facing or government environments
  • Strong backend engineering skills with production-grade Python or TypeScript
  • Familiarity with LLMs or generative AI systems and context engineering
  • Ability to work in ambiguity, define scope, and make trade-offs

โœจ Nice to Have

  • Experience with deploying applications on Kubernetes in air-gapped environments
  • Experience with Information Retrieval fundamentals including vector search and reranking
  • Experience with open source LLMs like Llama3 or Mixtral

๐ŸŽ Benefits & Perks

  • ๐Ÿ’ฐ Competitive compensation with national benchmarking
  • ๐Ÿ  Remote-first culture with flexible travel
  • ๐Ÿš€ Mission-driven work impacting national security

๐Ÿ“จ Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks ยท AI estimate

  1. 1Phone Screenยท 30 min
  2. 2Technical Interviewยท 60 min
  3. 3Customer Simulationยท 90 min
  4. 4Offerยท 30 min
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