Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance Required)
On-siteArlington, Virginia, United States or Arlington, Texas, United States
Job Summary
Build and deploy Nebula, an agentic AI operating system, inside classified customer environments across the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. Connect to undocumented data sources and workflows, construct MCP servers, and troubleshoot in air-gapped settings where standard tools are unavailable. Demonstrate the platform to analysts, deliver training, and act directly on feedback rather than routing it through intermediaries. Configure agents and workflows in partnership with Deployment Strategists to ensure mission-correct output, while documenting engagement learnings weekly to shape core engineering roadmaps. Work 80 to 100% of the time on client site in the National Capital Region, reporting to a lead and collaborating with analysts, operators, and technical experts from frontier labs.
Required Qualifications
- 4 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience
- Strong Python
- Experience building and operating reliable integrations, including authentication, rate limiting, and error recovery
- Working fluency in Kubernetes and containerized deployment
- Demonstrated experience working directly with non-technical users
- Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in the National Capital Region
- Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in the National Capital Region, plus periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel to supported units
- U.S. citizenship
- An active TS/SCI clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience deploying software in air-gapped or SCIF environments, including disconnected package management and offline container registries
- Prior work with Intelligence Community or DoD tooling, data formats, or workflows in IL6+ environments
- Experience with agentic systems, LLM application development, or evaluation of non-deterministic systems
- Helm chart authoring
- Workflow orchestration such as Temporal
- Graph databases for entity resolution
- Rancher
- ArgoCD
- Harbor in restricted environments
- Experience with, or genuine willingness to learn, the J2 and intelligence processes your users work in: the intelligence cycle, all source fusion, and at J2 sites, JIPOE and the Joint Targeting Cycle and F2T2EA
- Exposure to the intelligence tooling your users rely on, such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, TAC, FADE/MIST, VOLTRON, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future
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