Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

How the Role Is Structured

What You'll Own

You'll Work Alongside

What This Role Is Not

Required Qualifications

• 4 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience. Strong Python.
• Experience building and operating reliable integrations, including authentication, rate limiting, and error recovery.
• Working fluency in Kubernetes and containerized deployment.
• Demonstrated experience working directly with non-technical users.
• Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in the National Capital Region, plus periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel to supported units.
• U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience deploying software in air-gapped or SCIF environments, including disconnected package management and offline container registries.
• Prior work with Intelligence Community or DoD tooling, data formats, or workflows in IL6+ environments.
• Experience with agentic systems, LLM application development, or evaluation of non-deterministic systems.
• Helm chart authoring, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, and graph databases for entity resolution.
• Rancher, ArgoCD, or Harbor in restricted environments.
• Experience with, or genuine willingness to learn, the J2 and intelligence processes your users work in: the intelligence cycle, all source fusion, and at J2 sites, JIPOE and the Joint Targeting Cycle and F2T2EA. You build against these workflows, so understanding them is an advantage.
• Exposure to the intelligence tooling your users rely on, such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, TAC, FADE/MIST, VOLTRON, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future. A plus, not expected.

What We Offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance. 99% of your premiums covered, and 100% of your dependents' premiums.
• Optional HSA plan. Lower premium, HSA eligible, fully portable, self directed or managed.
• Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
• Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D, 100% company paid.
• 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested. No cliff, no waiting period. Yours from day one.
• Wellhub Gold. Everything from Gold's Gym to Lifetime, fully covered, plus [solidcore], F45, and hundreds of other studios.
• Unlimited PTO. Real time off, not accrual based. Take what you need, no counting required.
• Every federal holiday , plus additional paid days off over the winter break.
• Supportive leave of absence program , including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave.
• Breakfast, lunch, and endless snacks every day you are in the office.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Company phone plan. A new iPhone, fully company paid.