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About the Role
Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government We’re hiring an MTS to work on applied AI systems across research and production. This role spans model experimentation, infrastructure, and deployment in high-assurance, mission-critical environments, including forward-deployed work with strategic partners to ensure mission success.
What You'll Do
- 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.
You're a Good Fit If You
- Required skills: Python, LLM Systems, Data Pipelines, Distributed Systems
- Able to operate independently in ambiguous, partner-facing settings with technical and operational ownership.
- 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.
- Comfortable in high-security / high-reliability environments.
- Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.
- Experience supporting U.S. Government, defense, intelligence, or national security missions.
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