Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

What You'll Own

You'll Work Alongside

What This Role Is Not

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including significant time in customer facing or forward deployed technical roles.
• Demonstrated end to end ownership of a customer engagement: discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, and adoption.
• Strong Python. Working fluency in Kubernetes, and the ability to reason independently about deployment, networking, and data flow.
• Enough AI agent and workflow fluency to direct Deployment Strategist work, not only engineering.
• Experience managing or formally mentoring engineers.
• 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

• Prior forward deployed or embedded engineering experience at a product company.
• Experience building or evaluating agentic systems and LLM applications, including handling non-deterministic behavior.
• Experience deploying and operating 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 analytic workflows.
• Familiarity with workflow orchestration such as Temporal for durable, multi-step tasks.
• Experience growing a team from one or two people into a functioning unit.

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.