Head of Forward Deployed Engineering
Hybrid (Hybrid: New York, NY), Hybrid (Hybrid: Arlington, VA)$200k - $275kFull-timePosted 7mo ago
About the role
Head of Forward Deployed Engineering for Cape, leading federal engineering initiatives, mentoring a remote, high-performing team, and owning technical execution for the federal business in government and defense contexts.
Responsibilities
- Architect and execute the technical vision for our federal engineering organization, building the secure, resilient, and scalable network and platform that our nation's most critical missions depend on.
- Lead, mentor, and inspire a world-class team of engineers dedicated to solving the nation's toughest Command and Control challenges.
- Serve as the key technical partner to our federal customers, translating their complex mission requirements into tangible, deployed solutions.
- Take complete ownership and serve as the technical owner for our federal customers.
- Steer our engagement with the unique challenges and opportunities of the federal landscape, ensuring solutions are at the vanguard of innovation and mission-ready.
Qualifications
- 9+ years of progressive experience, including at least 5 years directly managing engineering teams.
- Engineering background in Computer Science, Mathematics, Computer Engineering, Physics or similar field.
- Demonstrated success leading engineering teams that have built, deployed, and sustained software solutions for U.S. government, defense, or intelligence community customers.
- Understanding of modern software architecture for secure, scalable, and distributed systems; experience with cloud (e.g., AWS GovCloud, Azure Government) and air-gapped environments; familiarity with federal security compliance standards (e.g., FedRAMP, RMF, STIGs) is helpful.
- Proven ability to define a technical strategy and execute against it, aligning engineering with customer mission objectives and business goals.
- Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to engineers, government officials, and non-technical stakeholders.
- An active U.S. Top Secret (TS) security clearance is strongly preferred; at minimum, ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.
Skills
Required:Technical leadership and people managementFederal government tech leadershipSecure, scalable distributed systems
Benefits
- 401(k) match
- 100% coverage of medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and your dependents
- 12 weeks paid parental leave (for all parents, no waiting period)
- Stipends for family-forming needs
- Gender-affirming care
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Cape
Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security.
Cape is premium wireless coverage with an added layer of personal security. Talk, text, and live with the confidence that you’re protected.
wireless coveragepersonal securityprivacy-firstmobile securityeSIMprivacy-oriented
More open roles at Cape
- GRC Engineer1w agoHybrid (Hybrid, DC), Hybrid (Hybrid: Arlington, VA) · Security
- FP&A Manager2w agoHybrid (Hybrid: New York, NY) · Internal Ops
- Operations Analyst, Federal2w agoHybrid (Hybrid: Arlington, VA) · Marketing & Customer Ops
- Technical Program Manager, Network2w agoHybrid (Hybrid: Arlington, VA) · Engineering
- Operations Analyst, Consumer2w agoHybrid (Hybrid: New York, NY) · Marketing & Customer Ops