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Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Harmattan AI· P&P
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UAEFull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Harmattan AI is seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer to design, build, and deploy mission-critical software on-site with partner teams, from architecture to field deployment, and to fold durable components back into the product after validation in the field.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build software applications that solve specific operational problems for our partners, owning them end-to-end from architecture through deployment.
  • Take loosely defined, real-world requirements from partner militaries and organizations and turn them into working software, often on tight timelines.
  • Build interfaces and connectors between our platforms and partner systems, and validate data flows end-to-end in the field.
  • Deploy your solutions on site, gather feedback directly from operators, and iterate quickly based on what you see working (or not) in practice.
  • Spot patterns and capabilities worth building into the core product, and work with our platform engineering team to get them there.
  • Debug issues in live operational settings, drive them to resolution, and document what you learn along the way.
  • Build real working relationships with client technical teams and end users so you understand their problems well enough to solve them properly.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years building and shipping production software, in Python and at least one lower-level language (C++, Rust, Go).
  • A track record of defining and building end-to-end systems: projects, internships, or early-career work where you took an ambiguous problem to a working, deployed solution.
  • Comfortable owning software end-to-end — design, build, debug, deploy — including on Linux, in operational or field conditions.
  • Confident and clear communicating with client technical teams and senior stakeholders, with a bias to action
  • Practical under constraint: ill-defined problems, tight deadlines, and a working solution over a theoretically perfect one.
  • Travel: frequent on site with partners, domestic and international.
  • Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Skills

Required:PythonC++LinuxSystems thinkingCommunication with stakeholders
Nice to have:RustGo
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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