Forward Deployed Engineer - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute3 months ago
Washington, DC, USAMid Level
Base Salary
$145k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate the LIGER GenAI platform into customer business processes and support deployments for 60–180 days post-sale.
- Build and ship full-stack features using Angular, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, and PostgreSQL.
- Design reliable agentic workflows involving tool-calling, multi-step reasoning, orchestration, and retrieval-augmented generation.
- Build document-processing pipelines for text extraction, chunking, metadata enrichment, indexing, and persistence.
- Conduct proof-of-concept demonstrations and translate customer needs into working code.
- Document customer requirements and feedback and communicate them to the core product team.
- Collaborate with product management, engineering, and support teams to deliver customer solutions.
- Engage directly with customers in person, remotely, or in hybrid settings and travel occasionally within the United States.
Requirements
- At least 3 years of full-stack development experience with ownership of frontend and backend systems.
- Proficiency with Angular and TypeScript and solid experience with Node.js and/or Python.
- Experience with PostgreSQL, database design, and SQL development.
- Hands-on experience building with LLMs, including prompt engineering, API integration, tool use, and production model-output management.
- Familiarity with agentic orchestration, tool-calling, RAG, or multi-step agent flows.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs and backend services.
- Experience using Docker, GitLab, cloud deployment models, and preferably AWS GovCloud or federal environments.
- U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain a CBP Background Investigation.
- Preferred qualifications include NLP, computational linguistics, data science, scalable document-processing pipelines, MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Kubernetes, AWS products, Unix/Linux, federal cybersecurity, vulnerability management, and federal sales engineering experience.
- Strong communication, prioritization, independent delivery, and stakeholder-management skills are required.
Benefits
- Hybrid or remote work may be supported, with on-site work determined by customer needs.
- Occasional travel to customer locations within the United States is required.
- The role offers direct customer influence, close collaboration with a core product team, and work on AI tools for federal missions.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Logistics Management Institute
Logistics Management Institute (LMI) provides consulting, software development, and analytics services to U.S. federal agencies, with strengths in supply chain, digital engineering, AI, and modeling and simulation. It builds and sustains government systems—such as Army acquisition and contract-writing platforms—while delivering data-driven modernization and program support across defense, space, healthcare, and energy. Founded in 1961 and headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI operates as a privately held contractor to the public sector.