Deployed Engineer (Federal)
$185k - $300k • Remote • Washington DC • FullTime
Posted 19d ago
About the job
As a Deployed Engineer, you will work on challenging applied AI problems, focusing on production systems that support real-world missions for defense, civilian, and intelligence customers. You will help design, deploy, and operate AI agents within secure, regulated, and high-stakes environments. This role offers a fast feedback loop, tangible mission impact, and the opportunity to directly influence the deployment of AI agents across the federal landscape. You will operate in environments demanding security, reliability, compliance (FedRAMP, IL levels, etc.), and operational rigor, working closely with government engineers and system integrators throughout the entire lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Co-architect and co-build production AI agents with federal engineering teams and system integrators.
- Own the technical win in federal pre-sales engagements by designing secure POCs, supporting RFI/RFP technical responses, and guiding technical evaluations.
- Design architectures that meet federal security and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, DoD IL2–IL6, NIST, etc.).
- Help agencies deploy and operate agent-based applications such as mission support copilots, intelligence analysis agents, research automation systems, and multi-step operational workflows.
- Advise customers post-award on architecture, scalability, observability, evaluation, and long-term roadmap decisions.
- Deliver technical demos, workshops, and enablement sessions tailored to government developer and operator audiences.
- Partner with security teams to navigate ATO processes and accreditation pathways.
- Surface field feedback from federal use cases and contribute reusable patterns, secure deployment guides, and example code that scale across agencies.
- Occasionally contribute code upstream when it meaningfully improves federal customer outcomes.
Requirements
- Must have active or prior U.S. security clearance (Secret, TS/SCI).
- 3+ years in a relevant technical role (software engineering, customer engineering, solutions engineering, product engineering), ideally supporting federal or regulated customers.
- Experience working with DoD, Civilian Agencies, Intelligence Community, or federal system integrators.
- Strong Python and JavaScript fundamentals, with deep systems thinking.
- Experience designing agent-based or LLM-powered systems beyond simple API calls, including multi-step workflows, orchestration, guardrails, and failure handling.
- Familiarity with secure cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, etc.).
- Comfort operating in regulated environments.