Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal/National Security
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Red Cell PartnersNational Security
Remote (USA)Full-TimeMiddle
Salary$180,000-240,000
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Job Details
- Required Skills
- AWSPostgreSQLPythonGCPJavaKubernetesTypeScriptAzureFastAPIReact
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production-quality systems.
- Experience with backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or applied AI/ML systems.
- Ability to operate in ambiguous customer environments and turn unclear requirements into working software.
- Strong technical communication skills with engineers, product teams, executives, and customer stakeholders.
- Comfort working across the full stack when needed, including backend services, frontend interfaces, infrastructure, integrations, and deployment workflows.
- High ownership, bias for action, and ability to drive outcomes without waiting for perfect requirements.
- Strong debugging instincts and ability to reason across application code, data, infrastructure, networking, and customer systems.
- Interest in national-security missions and willingness to work in secure or restricted environments.
- U.S. Citizen eligible for U.S. Security Secret Clearance.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with federal and national-security customers to understand mission workflows, pain points, data environments, and operational constraints.
- Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automation in secure customer environments.
- Translate customer needs into technical requirements, implementation plans, and product feedback for the core engineering team.
- Own delivery from prototype through production, including architecture, backend services, APIs, integrations, observability, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance.
- Integrate with customer systems, data sources, identity providers, and cloud or on-prem infrastructure.
- Partner with product, engineering, security, and customer teams to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, auditable, and operationally useful.
- Debug issues in deployed environments and drive fast resolution across application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers.
- Contribute reusable patterns, platform improvements, and documentation back to the broader engineering organization.
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