10 hours ago
Tysons, VA, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$130k - $167k/yr
Responsibilities
- Shape data flow, integration topology, identity models, and deployment architectures across on-premises, air-gapped, and government cloud environments.
- Prototype, build, debug, read and write code, and develop data pipelines and integrations alongside delivery teams.
- Identify and quantify high-value AI/ML opportunities and translate mission challenges into tractable technical problems with defined requirements and success criteria.
- Set technical direction, shape solution roadmaps, manage technical risks and dependencies, and determine what should become a repeatable product capability.
- Lead technical collaboration among Forward Deployed Engineers, data scientists, product managers, and industry experts.
- Run customer working sessions, brief government executives and mission owners, and produce stakeholder status updates.
- Deploy solutions from development through UAT and production, integrating with customer data stores, mission systems, ERP/CRM systems, and cloud environments.
- Configure, secure, monitor, and support accreditation of platforms against federal security and compliance requirements.
- Feed field learnings into the core platform and partner with Sales on account expansion, renewals, and additional mission use cases.
Requirements
- U.S. citizenship and an active U.S. Government Top Secret/SCI security clearance are required; CI or Full-Scope Polygraph is strongly preferred.
- Hands-on ability to architect enterprise AI and data solutions, prototype and build with Python, SQL, or similar tools, and directly inspect and reason about data.
- Either a strong software or data engineering background building and shipping production systems, or deep military, intelligence, or federal mission expertise paired with demonstrated technical fluency.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Engineering, or a related technical or quantitative discipline is required; an advanced degree is preferred.
- Track record of delivering solutions or systems from concept through production, troubleshooting failures, and reasoning from first principles.
- Deep expertise in at least one federal mission domain such as defense, intelligence, aerospace, logistics/supply chain, or another mission area.
- Experience working with senior technical and executive stakeholders in both mission and technical design contexts.
- Familiarity with enterprise data environments, cloud data warehouses, APIs, ERP/CRM platforms, modern deployment practices, containerization, cloud-native services, and infrastructure-as-code, or ability to ramp quickly.
- Preferred qualifications include federal, military, classified, SCIF, air-gapped, government-cloud, AI/ML platform, accreditation, SaaS technical-lead, forward-deployed, professional-services, and defense export-control experience.
Benefits
- Excellent benefits, a competitive compensation package, and a generous equity plan.
- Virginia-based role with a listed base-pay range of $130,000–$167,000 USD.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future company sponsorship.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward DeployedSolutions Engineering
About C3.ai
C3 AI builds enterprise AI software, including the C3 Agentic AI Platform for developing and operating AI applications, a suite of industry-specific SaaS applications, and C3 Generative AI for domain-specific use cases. It sells to large enterprises and public-sector organizations via subscriptions and services. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Redwood City, California, C3 AI is a public company trading on the NYSE (ticker: AI) and also listed on Mexico’s BMV.