Forward Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton27 days ago
Base Salary
$78k - $176k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement customer-facing AI solutions from requirements through deployment and technical handover.
- Integrate enterprise APIs, authentication, data sources, and business workflows.
- Adapt reusable agent components and configure customer environments, access, secrets, application security controls, and instrumentation.
- Develop customer-specific test and evaluation suites and validate results against agreed quality and performance thresholds.
- Use traces, logs, and metrics to troubleshoot behavior, integrations, latency, and cost.
- Prepare deployment and rollback procedures, runbooks, solution inventories, enablement materials, and technical knowledge-transfer materials.
- Manage implementation dependencies, communicate limitations, obtain explicit deliverable and support acceptance, and hand off to operational owners and Customer Success.
- Return reusable improvements and recurring defects to engineering.
Requirements
- Experience delivering customer-facing software or AI implementations from requirements through deployment and technical handover.
- Experience with Python or TypeScript and enterprise integrations.
- Experience developing or adapting agent workflows, model integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool connections.
- Experience deploying applications in cloud or enterprise environments and configuring access, secrets, and application security controls.
- Experience building customer-specific testing and evaluation suites.
- Ability to implement end-to-end instrumentation and troubleshoot using traces, logs, and metrics.
- Ability to prepare deployment, rollback, runbook, inventory, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Ability to manage dependencies, communicate limitations, and obtain explicit acceptance of deliverables and support responsibilities.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust or Suitability/Fitness determination based on client requirements.
- Bachelor's degree.
- Preferred experience with LangGraph, MCP servers, LangSmith, Langfuse, or comparable integration and observability tools.
Benefits
- Hybrid work in McLean, Virginia, or Washington, District of Columbia, with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility as required by leadership and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards and employee benefits eligibility for regular full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week.
- Government investigation and potential client eligibility requirements apply.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton builds and integrates software, analytics, AI, cloud, and cybersecurity solutions while providing engineering and consulting services, primarily for U.S. defense, intelligence, and civil government clients, with select commercial partnerships. Its business is largely government contracting and professional services delivering mission systems and cyber defense. Founded in 1914 and headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Booz Allen is a public company traded on the NYSE (ticker: BAH).