Forward-Deployed Solution Engineer
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Lead full-stack engineering for URZA deployments in military environments, integrating systems and mentoring engineers while ensuring customer satisfaction.
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Overview
We are seeking a senior
full-stack engineer
to lead URZA deployment and customer-facing technical delivery across active customer programs.
This req can land at either Senior Solution Engineer (L5) or Solution Architect (L6)
depending on demonstrated depth see leveling below.
You will own URZA deployments end-to-end at customer sites primarily in DoW and military operating environments.
You will lead engagements as the senior engineering presence on the ground, partner directly with Mission Leads and Field Operations, and represent NODA in customer technical reviews.
Expect significant time on-site and significant time writing runbooks, deployment guides, ConOps documents, after-action reports.
What You'Ll Do
- Lead URZA deployments end-to-end at customer sites in DoW and military operating environments.
- Configure URZA for each customer's mission and ConOps.
- Integrate URZA with third-party C2 systems, sensors, software APIs, and external data sources (weather, reconnaissance, intelligence feeds).
- Run customer technical reviews and operator training; partner with Mission Leads on engagement coordination.
- Build reusable engagement scaffolding (runbooks, ConOps templates, integration playbooks); mentor mid-level Solution Engineers.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of full-stack engineering experience, with significant customer-facing or forward-deployed work.
- Strong proficiency in Python, C++, or Rust; advanced Linux fluency.
- Networking depth (TCP/IP, UDP, multicast, routing) and field debugging across multiple system layers.
- Demonstrated deployment experience in DoW, military, or comparable operational environments.
- U.S. citizenship; able to obtain a security clearance.
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on with autonomous systems or unmanned vehicles (UAS, UGV, USV, UUV).
- Tactical C2 systems (TAK, Cursor-on-Target, Link 16) or pub-sub middleware (Zenoh, DDS).
- Experience integrating sensors, third-party APIs, or external data feeds (weather, reconnaissance, intelligence).
- Prior defense, autonomy, or robotics company experience; classified / ITAR / CMMC environment exposure.
- Active security clearance.
- Leveling Senior SE (L5) vs.
- Solution Architect (L6)
Senior Solution Engineer (L5)
Owns URZA deployment for a single engagement.
Leads on-site execution; partners with a more senior engineer on architecture decisions.
Operates independently within an engagement; escalates cross-engagement trade-offs.
Mentors mid-level SEs.
Solution Architect (L6)
Owns URZA deployment architecture across multiple concurrent engagements.
Defines integration patterns and ConOps templates that other SEs reuse.
Holds customer technical authority where the customer expects an architect.
Influences URZA roadmap and the integration layer directly through field learning.
Skills & Attributes
- Systems thinker across compute, network, vehicle behavior, and ConOps.
- Field-grounded; comfortable diagnosing in degraded conditions on a live exercise clock.
- Documentation-disciplined.
- Customer-credible; holds technical authority without overstating or underselling.
- Self-directed; thrives in ambiguity.
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