Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government
Remote$300k - $500kFull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Role focused on applied AI systems for high-assurance, mission-critical environments with forward-deployed work alongside government partners.
Responsibilities
- Build and deploy agentic AI systems that support high-impact U.S. Government missions from prototype to production.
- Design and integrate LLM applications, including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG workflows, and human-in-the-loop autonomy.
- Work directly with government partners in forward-deployed environments to translate mission needs into technical systems.
- Build and maintain large-scale data curation, and evaluation pipelines for model training and improvement.
- Develop infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment across frontier AI platforms.
- Build AI systems that turn mission data, models, and tools into real operational autonomy.
- Own systems across the full lifecycle, including discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, reliability, security, and iteration.
Qualifications
- Strong Python engineer with end-to-end ownership experience.
- Experience with LLMs and creating agentic systems.
- Built or maintained data pipelines / ML infrastructure.
- Familiar with RL workflows or simulation environments.
- Able to operate independently in ambiguous, partner-facing settings with technical and operational ownership.
- Comfortable in high-security / high-reliability environments.
Skills
Required:PythonLLM SystemsData Pipelines
Benefits
- equity compensation
- performance-based bonuses (dependent on role)
- health-insurance premiums reimbursement up to 100%
- paid time off
- 401(K) plan with company match
- remote-first workforce and additional benefits for high-performing employees.
Last updated Oct 11, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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