Member of Technical Staff, Forward Deployed (US Gov), Hybrid- Full-time

Job Title: Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government

Job Type: Full-time

Location: Hybrid - Washington, D.C.

Required Skills:

• Python

• LLM Systems

• Data Pipelines

• Distributed Systems

The Role: 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 Work On:

• 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.

What We're Looking For:

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active U.S. security clearance or eligibility and willingness to obtain one.

• Experience supporting U.S. Government, defense, intelligence, or national security missions.

• Prior experience at a startup, defense organization, Department of War, or government-focused technology company.

• Background operating in fast-moving startup environments, mission-critical government settings, or both.