Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government

Overview

Responsibilities

• Develop agentic LLM applications, multi-agent systems, tool use, RAG and human-in-the-loop workflows from prototype through production.
• Translate government mission needs into systems; build data-curation/evaluation pipelines and inference, experimentation and deployment infrastructure.
• Own discovery, architecture, implementation, reliability, security and iteration in high-assurance environments.

Requirements

• Independent technical ownership in ambiguous partner-facing settings; strong Python and end-to-end engineering experience.
• Experience building LLM/agent systems and data/ML infrastructure; familiarity with RL or simulation and high-security/reliability work.

Preferred

• Active U.S. clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain it.
• Government, defense, intelligence or national-security experience; startup or government-technology background.

Engagement and pay

• Full-time. Stated national base salary: $150,000-$250,000/year; the headline separately shows $300,000-$500,000/year compensation, not base salary.
• Equity eligibility and possible performance bonuses; up to 100% health-premium reimbursement, paid time off and 401(k) employer match.
• Weekly hours and start date are not stated.

Eligibility

• Source labels the role Remote but requires relocating to the Washington, DC area and forward-deployed partner work. No fully location-independent work promise.
• Country/citizenship eligibility is not explicitly stated; clearance eligibility is a preferred qualification, not inferred citizenship.