Description
As a Senior/Lead Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) on our Public Sector team, you'll be embedded with U.S. Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and Aerospace clients , designing and deploying bespoke AI solutions that drive mission-critical outcomes. You'll architect the backbone of a planet-scale platform that ships hundreds of features daily with rock-solid reliability and security.
Mission Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical lead on high-profile customer engagements,designing, building, and deploying tailored Salesforce solutions for defense, intelligence, and aerospace missions.
- Engineer distributed systems running across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud.
- Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines.
- Build and ship high-quality, production-grade software using modern engineering practices, with AI as a core part of your development workflow.
- Design and orchestrate complex systems where AI agents integrate seamlessly into human workflows, driving efficiency and innovation at scale.
- Contribute to building and maintaining the shared system context, an explicit repository of system designs, constraints, and standards that enables AI to operate accurately and reliably.
- Critically evaluate code (human or AI-generated) for correctness, quality, security, and performance.
- Partner directly with customers and mission stakeholders to translate complex needs into technical solutions.
- Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and best-practice evangelism across teams.
- Mentor junior engineers and serve as a technical role model.
What We're Looking For
- 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
- Deep proficiency in Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby.
- A demonstrated, genuine AI-first approach to engineering , using AI to move faster, build fluency across the stack, and contribute well beyond your core specialty.
- Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor) in development workflows.
- Advanced prompt engineering skills and the ability to write precise, structured prompts and cultivate the system context that makes AI outputs reliable, secure, and production-ready.
- Experience with enterprise data platforms (Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery).
- Experience working in an air-gapped GovCloud environment.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills , from command centers to executive briefings.
- Ability to travel 25–50% of the time, as needed to customer sites.
- Active Secret or Top Secret clearance required.