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Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
31 days ago
Salary
$148.8K - $201.3K / year
Seniority
Mid Level
No structured requirement data.
Job Description
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
Defense Unicorns
Role Description In this role you will join a team building the backbone of modern defense software delivery — helping ensure warfighters can deploy the latest capabilities rapidly, securely, and reliably. - Embed with strategic customers as a technical partner, working from problem discovery to solution implementation and customer adoption. - Architect, build, deploy, and operate agentic Generative AI systems: APIs, data processing ETL pipelines, integration layers, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and context engineering. - Work in cloud, on-prem, and edge/air-gapped environments to ensure software can run where the mission demands. - Prototype and deploy systems leveraging the core products and design patterns of the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS); bring back insights from the field for continuous product improvement. - Scope, sequence, and lead delivery of solutions: define living roadmaps, set priorities, trade off speed vs quality vs scope, work across internal teams and customer stakeholders to drive clarity and remove blockers early. - Codify reusable patterns for mission environments: build tools, internal frameworks, playbooks so future deployments are faster, safer, and repeatable. - Act as the technical face to customer leadership: communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, build trust, manage expectations, and ensure successful scale and mission adoption. This is a customer-facing role. - Ability and interest to travel up as needed to client sites, but flexible based on personal preferences. Qualifications - 3+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience (backend or full-stack), ideally in customer-facing or government environments (DoD, intelligence, public sector) or analogous high-assurance contexts. - Strong backend engineering skills: production-grade code in Python or TypeScript; deep familiarity with designing services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and backend frameworks. - Familiarity with LLMs or generative AI systems — be able to explain the fundamentals of Context Engineering and understand how model behavior connects to product/mission experience, and how AI capabilities integrate into larger system architectures. - Strong ability to work in ambiguity: define scope, sequence work, make trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope; remove blockers; deliver under pressure in dynamic mission-driven settings. - Excellent communication skills: able to translate complex technical details into clear messaging for non-technical stakeholders; work cross-functionally; build relationships with customers and internal teams. - Mission-oriented mindset. Have an understanding that our work is supporting the defense and freedom of the nation. Requirements - Experience with deploying applications on Kubernetes inside of air-gapped or secure environments. - Experience with Information Retrieval fundamentals including knowledge of keyword and vector based search, document parsing and chunking, document reranking, and SQL/NoSQL search engines. - Experience with developing, executing, and maintaining LLM evaluations. - Experience with open source LLM or SLM models (Llama3, Mixtral, Gemma, Phi) including inference frameworks, structured output, fine-tuning, and model architecture reconfiguration. Benefits - Health: - Medical/Dental/Vision - Premiums are 100% Company Paid - Health Reimbursement Account - Life Insurance - Disability Insurance - Financial: - 401k Retirement Plan - Company Stock Options - Home Office Budget - Leave: - Flexible Time Off (FTO) plus all Federal Holidays, one week for Thanksgiving, and two weeks for Christmas and New Year’s - Paid Parental Leave - Learning: - Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions - Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
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