Forward Deployed Engineer/Solution Architect - Clearance Required
Logistics Management Institute5 months ago
Washington, DC, USASenior
Base Salary
$145k - $250k/yr
Responsibilities
- Integrate the LIGER GenAI platform into customers’ existing business processes.
- Build new features and enhancements within or around the LIGER platform using full-stack development skills.
- Deploy and initially configure LIGER, supporting customers for 60–180 days before transition to a long-term project team.
- Conduct proof-of-concept demonstrations and explain technical solution value to customers and nontechnical audiences.
- Provide technical consulting, integration guidance, troubleshooting, and deployment support.
- Document customer requirements and feedback and collaborate with product management, engineering, and support teams.
- Develop customer-specific functionality and help integrate successful features into the core product.
- Travel occasionally to customer locations within the United States.
Requirements
- Active Secret clearance is required; applicants must be U.S. citizens eligible for a U.S. Government security clearance.
- Advanced proficiency in Python and extensive experience with PostgreSQL are required.
- Hands-on experience with LLMs, NLP, and related AI technologies applied to real problems is required.
- Experience with the MEAN Stack, TypeScript full-stack development, and Angular web applications is required.
- Knowledge of Docker, GitLab pipelines, cloud deployment models, AWS GovCloud, and federal or DoD environments is required or preferred as specified.
- Experience integrating software with existing business processes and APIs is required.
- Preferred qualifications include a Top Secret clearance, federal sales engineering experience, DoD cybersecurity and vulnerability-management knowledge, Kubernetes experience, MCP Server and MCP tool development, containerization, Unix/Linux, and AWS GovCloud expertise.
- Preferred candidates can work independently in a small engineering team, build strategic customer relationships, communicate with senior stakeholders, and provide leadership, issue resolution, and expert guidance.
Benefits
- Customer engagement may be on-site, hybrid, or remote depending on customer requirements.
- Occasional short-term travel to customer locations across the United States is required.
- The role is based in Washington, DC, and requires an active Secret clearance or eligibility for one.
- The position supports customers for 60–180 days after sale before transitioning deployments to a long-term project team.
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.