Forward Deployed Engineer
Booz Allen Hamilton27 days ago
McLean, VA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Base Salary
$62k - $141k/yr
Responsibilities
- Implement customer-facing software and AI solutions from requirements through deployment and technical handover.
- Integrate enterprise systems, APIs, authentication, data sources, business workflows, and agent components.
- Configure customer environments, instrumentation, access, secrets, and application security controls.
- Establish evaluation baselines and validate customer-specific results against agreed quality and performance thresholds.
- Use traces, logs, and metrics to troubleshoot behavior, integrations, latency, and cost.
- Prepare deployment, rollback, troubleshooting, runbook, solution inventory, enablement, and knowledge-transfer materials.
- Coordinate readiness reviews, implementation dependencies, customer-specific incidents, acceptance of deliverables, and support handoff.
- Return reusable implementation 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 API, authentication, data-source, and business-workflow 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 test and evaluation suites and validating quality and performance thresholds.
- Ability to implement instrumentation and use traces, logs, and metrics for troubleshooting.
- Ability to prepare deployment and rollback procedures, runbooks, solution inventories, and technical 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.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
- Preferred experience includes LangGraph, MCP servers, LangSmith, Langfuse, comparable integration and observability tools, production readiness reviews, customer-specific incidents, and converting implementation patterns into reusable engineering improvements.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with work at a Booz Allen or customer facility as aligned with leadership expectations and role needs.
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care.
- Recognition awards for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible for Booz Allen benefit programs, with select offerings for others.
- Applicants selected will undergo a government investigation and may need to meet U.S. government client eligibility requirements.
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).