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# Forward Deployed Engineer

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Tagup posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in VA, at $120,000–$150,000 base, below the senior FDE median of $190,000 across 1,849 postings with pay. Integrate the platform with government systems and onboard imperfect operational data Read from the employer’s posting on November 6, 2026.

- [Tagup](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/tagup)

Posted Sep 15, 2026 by Tagup · open on Lever as of Nov 6, 2026

**$120,000–$150,000** VA Hybrid Full-time

Integrate the platform with government systems and onboard imperfect operational data

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## At a glance

### Posted base pay

$120K–$150K Below the median

Midpoint $135K · median $190K

This job $120K to $150K. Senior FDE postings, 1,849 postings: the middle 50% of posted pay is $160K to $220K, median $190K.

### The work

Builds what the customer runs

Balance **Mostly building**

Project stages

1. Pre-sales (not covered)
2. Proof of concept (not covered)
3. Implementation
4. Operations

Travel **Required, amount not stated**

- **Coding**: Writes production code

- **Builds for**: External customers

- **Level**: Senior

- **Role**: Individual contributor

### What they ask for

Experience

- **2+ years** professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability

Background

- **Software engineering**

Visa

- **No visa sponsorship**

### Do you meet what the posting states?

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The job is in VA. Could you work there?

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## Conditions

- **Location**: VA

- **Work arrangement**: Hybrid

- **Remote work restrictions**: Virginia-based hybrid role with required travel to customer sites at military installations across the U.S.

- **Employment type**: Full-time

- **Visa sponsorship**: Not available

- **Travel**: Travel required, amount not stated

- **Pay**:

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## The job description from Tagup

Posted by Tagup on Sep 15, 2026

Tagup is a defense technology company founded at MIT that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. We’re growing rapidly and are looking for change-makers passionate about delivering innovative technologies to solve the most challenging problems in the world’s highest stakes environments. This is an exciting opportunity to engage in meaningful work that strengthens national security and contributes to the success of U.S. and allied forces. Join us in shaping the future of defense logistics for a safer tomorrow.

Forward Deployed Engineers work inside customer programs rather than at a distance from them. You’ll integrate our platform with government data and systems under real constraints, onboard messy real-world data, build the workflows a program runs on, and support deployments in customer environments, including on-site when a program needs it.

The work reaches users quickly. What you ship often gets into the hands of the people making readiness decisions within weeks, and what you learn in the field feeds back into the product.

### Responsibilities

- Integrate our platform with government data and systems under real constraints, and onboard the imperfect data programs actually run on
- Configure the product against program requirements and support releases, including in government cloud environments
- Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers
- Triage and resolve customer-reported issues in their environments rather than passing them along
- Own a component or program workstream end to end, returning working systems from a requirements document rather than closed tickets
- Spend time on-site with customers, become their technical counterpart, and bring what you learn back to the product team
- Write, test, and review code to a standard the rest of the team can build on

### Desired Skills

- 2+ years of professional software engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated ability
- Proficiency in Python and/or TypeScript, with SQL and data-heavy work: ETL, integration, and wrangling imperfect real-world data
- Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and comfort working directly with customers
- Bias toward ownership: handed a requirements document, you return a working system
- Willingness to travel to customer sites (military installations across the U.S.)
- U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance

### Bonus Points

- Military service or experience supporting defense programs. Veterans are strongly encouraged to apply
- Familiarity with service supply, maintenance, and readiness data systems
- Experience deploying software in government cloud or other constrained or air-gapped environments
- An active security clearance

*You don’t need to check every box. If the mission and the work resonate, we'd love to hear from you!*

### What Success Looks Like in Year One

- Customer decisions that used to run on spreadsheets and tribal knowledge are running on data you helped instrument.
- The product team is shipping features that came directly from patterns you spotted on the ground.
- Manual reporting that used to eat days of analyst time is automated and trusted.
- When senior leadership at a customer command wants to know how their logistics operation is really performing, the answer comes from a system you helped build.

### Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is between $120,000 and $150,000 annually. We strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package that aligns with our employees’ experience and qualifications. Our primary objective is to attract and retain top talent, and we firmly believe in compensating our employees fairly for their invaluable contributions.

As a rapidly expanding technology company, we extend part-ownership to all team members through an Employee Stock Option Plan. Additionally, we offer comprehensive health insurance benefits, access to the company’s 401K plan, and foster a team-oriented work environment with regular company outings!

### Why Join Us

- The mission is real. Our software runs in front of people whose job is to keep the fleet moving — the consequences of getting it right are tangible.
- Small team, high leverage. You'll have visibility from the engineering trenches to the executive team, and your work will compound.
- Hard problems worth solving. Reinforcement learning applied to logistics at the scale of a military service is genuinely novel work.
- Competitive comp, meaningful equity, and the kind of professional growth that comes from being trusted with big things early.

Tagup is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment with us are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

**Citizenship** **: Due to the nature of our work with the U.S. Department of Defense, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.**

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