Forward Deployed Engineer
Innodata Inc.3 hours ago
Responsibilities
- Build end-to-end product features across Rust backend and TypeScript/React frontend.
- Design scalable data models, APIs, and ingestion pipelines.
- Deploy, configure, and support the platform in AWS GovCloud, on-premises Kubernetes, air-gapped, and classified environments.
- Build data connectors and integrations for customer workflows.
- Participate in customer conversations, demos, and occasional on-site visits, translating feedback into product improvements.
- Contribute to architecture, code quality, performance, and security.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building and shipping production software.
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility and U.S. citizenship.
- Strong backend skills in a modern systems or application language, preferably Rust or willingness to ramp up in Rust.
- Solid SQL and PostgreSQL fundamentals, including indexing, transactions, and query performance.
- Proficiency with TypeScript and React and ability to build clean, responsive user interfaces.
- Experience deploying and running services with Docker and Kubernetes.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical work to customers and non-technical stakeholders.
- Ability to travel to customer sites.
- Preferred qualifications include customer-facing, consulting, or solutions-engineering experience; classified, air-gapped, or regulated-environment deployment experience; AWS/EKS and infrastructure-as-code experience; STIG or RMF experience; data-intensive application or data-pipeline experience; Python for data work; and familiarity with AI training data, annotation, or data-labeling workflows.
Benefits
- Remote anywhere in the U.S. or hybrid in the Washington, DC area.
- Occasional travel to customer sites is required.
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Innodata Inc.
Innodata Inc. builds data engineering and annotation services and platforms that supply training data, evaluation, and pipelines for enterprises and technology companies building AI models, including generative and robotics applications. Its business model centers on B2B services, managed data operations, and tools for data collection, cleansing, and labeling across text, image, video, and sensor data. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey, it is a public company trading on NASDAQ (INOD).