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Sr Forward Deployed Engineer, FDE US Government

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7 days ago
Arlington, VA, USA +3 moreSenior
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Base Salary

$168k - $250k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead technical strategy and execution across complex, multi-workstream customer AI programs.
  • Architect and build enterprise-scale AI systems, including multi-agent orchestration, retrieval systems, and decision intelligence platforms.
  • Define testing, evaluation, observability, production-readiness, and incident-response standards for AI systems.
  • Create reusable engineering patterns, platforms, and accelerators that improve delivery across the FDE practice.
  • Mentor junior FDEs and contribute to interviewing, hiring, system design coaching, and customer engagement coaching.
  • Identify opportunities to expand customer AI adoption and communicate technical concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Travel up to 25%.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of non-internship professional software development experience.
  • 5+ years of programming experience with at least one software programming language.
  • 5+ years of experience leading design or architecture for reliable and scalable new and existing systems.
  • Experience mentoring, serving as a tech lead, or leading an engineering team.
  • Current, active US government TS/SCI security clearance with Polygraph.
  • Experience communicating technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences, including senior stakeholders.
  • Experience leading agentic and spec-driven development at production scale; AI agent development experience is a plus.
  • Experience with evaluation frameworks, agent tooling, retrieval-augmented generation pipelines, and prompt engineering.
  • Preferred: bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent, AWS Services experience, enterprise-scale AI/ML application experience, startup or founder experience, complex customer production delivery, React, TypeScript, Python, Go, customer-facing technical project leadership, and 3+ years in an Agile, startup, or rapidly scaling environment.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance, mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Sign-on payments and restricted stock units are included in the overall package.
  • Work requires up to 25% travel and is based in the listed US locations.

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