Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (D.C Area)
Legion Intelligence2 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$160k - $200k/yr
Responsibilities
- Embed with customer teams to understand mission workflows, pain points, and operational constraints.
- Design and build custom applications, workflows, and “app packs” on the agentic AI platform.
- Rapidly prototype, iterate, deploy, troubleshoot, and support agentic AI solutions in field environments.
- Translate non-technical user needs and ambiguous requirements into technical implementations.
- Integrate solutions with enterprise systems including data platforms, ticketing systems, and collaboration tools.
- Build lightweight UI components and interfaces to support customer workflows.
- Gather product feedback, feature requests, and usage insights to influence product and engineering roadmaps.
- Collaborate with product engineering and agentic solution teams on platform capabilities.
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solution Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles.
- 4+ years supporting military, intelligence, or defense-related environments.
- Experience building and shipping full-stack applications or prototypes in production or near-production environments.
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar scripting languages.
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems such as Microsoft O365, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, ServiceNow, or Atlassian.
- Ability to build simple UI/UX using Node.js, Next.js, or React.
- Active US Department of Defense or Intelligence Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility are required.
- US citizenship is required due to government contract requirements.
- Ability to operate autonomously and solve ambiguous problems, with strong communication skills across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Familiarity with military mission domains such as operations, logistics, intelligence, or C4/IT systems.
- Experience working with government or federal customers is preferred.
- Experience building or deploying AI/ML systems, especially agentic workflows, is preferred.
- Familiarity with n8n, Palantir Foundry, or other workflow and automation platforms is preferred.
- Experience evaluating AI system performance, interpreting results, using product telemetry or usage analytics, and working in early-stage or high-growth startup environments is preferred.
Benefits
- Compensation is listed at $160,000–$200,000 USD.
- The position is 80–100% embedded with customers and involves working independently in classified or constrained environments.
Tech Stack
Categories
Forward Deployed
About Legion Intelligence
Legion Intelligence builds secure agentic AI infrastructure for mission workflows, offering the Legion Platform for governed agent orchestration and Centurion, a deployable edge system for disconnected environments. It sells to government and regulated enterprises through software licensing and deployment services across cloud, on-premise, classified, and air-gapped networks. Founded in 2022 and headquartered in San Francisco, it has deployments with U.S. SOCOM, XVIII Airborne Corps, the U.S. Air Force, and the Department of Energy.