Forward Deployed Engineer - DEV
On-siteDistrict of Columbia, United States
Job Summary
Own technical delivery from discovery through production across multiple concurrent agency deployments. Write and ship production-grade integrations using Fifer's APIs, modern web frameworks, and backend services. Build custom skills, agent configurations, and MCP server integrations that extend Fifer to customer-specific missions. Deploy and configure FiferAUDIT in customer cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) ensuring FedRAMP compliance boundaries are met. Work alongside agency technical teams to understand workflows from the source, not requirements docs. Run discovery sessions and technical workshops that translate mission need into engineered solutions. Partner directly with prospective and current agency clients as a technical advisor, conducting discovery sessions to uncover operational pain points. Travel up to 50% to customer sites for on-site implementation, workshops, and relationship building.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of software engineering experience shipping production systems
- Full-stack proficiency: JavaScript/TypeScript and/or Python; you can own a feature end to end
- Cloud deployment experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP); comfortable with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and CI/CD pipelines
- Hands-on experience building or integrating LLM/GenAI-powered systems. You understand how model behavior, context windows, and retrieval quality affect what users experience
- Expertise with AI agent harnesses (OpenCode, Pi, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or similar) and practical experience building agent configurations and skills
- Strong Linux system administration — you can install, configure, and debug on VMs and Kubernetes clusters without a runbook
- Active Public Trust clearance or higher
- Travel up to 50% to customer sites (primarily DC area) for on-site implementation, workshops, and relationship building
Desired Qualifications
- Prior FDE, deployment engineering, or solutions engineering experience at a commercial product company
- Experience working with federal civilian agencies (HHS, CMS, DHS, VA, DOL, or similar)
- Experience with FedRAMP-compliant deployments
- RAG architecture and LLM operations knowledge (prompt engineering, retrieval tuning, model evaluation, evals)
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) server development experience
- PostgreSQL and schema design experience
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