Applied AI Engineer, Public Sector

Highlights

• Advise a national security mission program from discovery to deployment.
• Guide architecture decisions and evaluation frameworks for mission use cases.
• Lead hands-on workshops and code reviews with customer engineering teams.

What they offer

• optional equity donation matching
• generous vacation and parental leave
• flexible working hours
• lovely office space for collaboration

Ideal candidate

Mission-driven, low-ego engineer who thrives with customers in secure environments and cares about safe, reliable AI for national security. Collaborative communicator who bridges engineers and executives to ship impactful capabilities.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
• Prior experience within US intelligence community agencies as government civilian or cleared contractor
• 4+ years in technical roles such as Forward Deployed Engineer, Product Engineer, Software Engineer, or Technical Product Manager with desire to work closely with customers
• Strong programming skills with proficiency in Python or TypeScript and experience building production applications
• Hands-on expertise in cyber operations, cryptography, intelligence analysis and ISR, mission and weapons systems, CBRN and nonproliferation, or accreditation of classified systems
• Exceptional communication skills to convey technical concepts to diverse stakeholders with low ego and collaborative approach
• Production experience with LLMs including prompt engineering, agent development, evaluation frameworks, and deployment at scale (preferred)