> AI agents: this is one page of Nextmove’s FDE site, in Markdown. Nextmove is a job board and free career service for forward deployed engineers (FDEs). Each posting is classified from its text, not its title: the kind of work, how much of it is production code, pre-sales weight, time at customer sites, travel, remote arrangement, level and posted base pay. The site also publishes the aggregates: median pay by level, metro, company and kind of work, and which companies started hiring FDEs each week. Every page under https://nextmove.md/fde is served this way; the index of pages is https://nextmove.md/llms.txt. # SI Engineer 800 Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/64ff1660d7999ae9 Freedom Technology Solutions Group posts a FDE role to build what the customer runs in Saint Louis, MO with no pay posted. Builds and operates secure agentic workflows that connect mission services, tools, and GEOINT data to automate analyst workflows. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Freedom Technology Solutions Group](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/freedom-technology-solutions-group) Posted Oct 21, 2026 by Freedom Technology Solutions Group · open on Greenhouse as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Saint Louis, MO +1 Builds and operates secure agentic workflows that connect mission services, tools, and GEOINT data to automate analyst workflows. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F64ff1660d7999ae9&placement=top) - [View posting at Freedom Technology Solutions Group](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freedomconsulting/jobs/5271318007) Free. Upload your resume once, see why each FDE role fits, and get introduced only when you say so. ## At a glance ### Posted base pay Not posted Senior FDE postings, 1,864 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 - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Technical lead ### What they ask for Experience - **9+ years** data science/software development experience - **13+ years** data science/software development experience Background - **Software engineering** - **Implementation and data engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting asks for 9+ years. How many do you have? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Saint Louis, MO. Could you work there? Which of these have you used in production? Answer each one. Nothing is saved or sent. [What postings ask for, by background →](https://nextmove.md/fde/paths) ## Conditions - **Location**: Saint Louis, MO · St. Louis, MO ## More like this [Superblocks](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/superblocks) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/50caaaffd3f99933) New York, NY · US remote Remote 2mo ago Pay not posted [Andesite](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/andesite) ### [Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack (TS Clearance)](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/975a7d2cfa216c7e) US Remote 5w ago $180,000–$240,000 [Rune Technologies](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/rune-technologies) ### [Forward Deployed Engineer](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/bddbcbbe4ac91eed) Honolulu, HI On-site 4mo ago $190,000–$210,000 ## The job description from Freedom Technology Solutions Group Posted by Freedom Technology Solutions Group on Oct 21, 2026 Freedom Technology Solutions Group is seeking a **Super Intelligence (SI) Engineer** to design, integrate, deploy, and operate secure agentic workflows supporting mission-critical GEOINT systems. The position focuses on application integration, workflow orchestration, platform engineering, secure data access, and production operations. The engineer will collaborate with software, platform, data, cybersecurity, and mission teams to translate approved operational processes into reliable SI-enabled workflows. As a Phantom SI Engineer, you will be working primarily on backend code fusing multiple data sources and processes together providing immediate value to the analysts by automating their workflows. You will function as a technical expert and be responsible for leading major assignments and guiding project outcomes. You will work with stakeholders from across the Intelligence Community and will need to be comfortable communicating with both military and civilian personnel. You will work on multiple projects each day so must be comfortable context switching between applications. ### Responsibilities - Design and implement agentic workflows that coordinate approved services, tools, data sources, and human actions. - Develop reusable orchestration components, APIs, connectors, tool interfaces, and workflow templates - Develop, secure, test, and operate Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools for approved enterprise services and data sources. - Implement workflow state management, conditional routing, retries, timeouts, error handling, and recovery. - Integrate approved SI and large language model services into enterprise applications. - Implement retrieval-augmented generation, semantic search, and knowledge-retrieval capabilities. - Establish human review, approval, escalation, and override controls. - Enforce authorization, data-handling, and operational boundaries throughout workflow execution. - Preserve citations, provenance, workflow configurations, source versions, and audit records. - Protect workflows from untrusted inputs, prompt injection, unauthorized tool use, and data disclosure. - Test workflow logic, tool interactions, failure conditions, security boundaries, and end-to-end behavior. - Deploy and operate SI-enabled applications on containerized enterprise platforms. - Establish CI/CD and DevSecOps automation for SI-enabled applications and services. - Monitor workflow availability, latency, resource consumption, errors, and integration health. - Troubleshoot application, platform, database, and service-integration issues. - Support deployment in classified, disconnected, and air-gapped environments. - Produce architecture diagrams, interface specifications, deployment instructions, and operational documentation. - Collaborate with domain experts to translate approved mission requirements and policies into technical workflows. ### Key Technologies - Linux - Python and JavaScript (React) - Containerization (Docker, Podmad, Kubernetes) - VS Code, Gitlab, Confluence, and Jira - AI Software Development - Argo Workflows - AWS Services - Data Types: Structured and Unstructured, JSON, XML, Geospatial, etc. ### Required Qualifications - An active TS/SCI security clearance (eligible for CI Poly) - 9–13 years of data science/software development experience - Experience designing and developing production software that orchestrates multiple services, tools, or data sources. - Experience implementing agentic workflows with bounded tool use and human-in-the-loop controls. - Proficiency in Python, Java, or another enterprise programming language. - Experience developing APIs, microservices, event-driven integrations, and asynchronous workflows. - Experience implementing workflow state, conditional execution, retries, timeouts, idempotency, and failure recovery. - Experience integrating approved SI or large language model services into enterprise applications. - Understanding of retrieval-augmented generation, embeddings, vector search, semantic retrieval, and intelligent agents. - Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, audit logging, and data-protection controls. - Experience with containers, Kubernetes, Git, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability. - Ability to convert domain-expert requirements and policies into version-controlled workflow logic. - Strong systems-integration, troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills. ### Desired Qualifications - Experience administering or developing solutions with Red Hat OpenShift AI. - Experience with Oracle AI Database, including vector-search and semantic-retrieval capabilities. - Experience deploying services in classified, disconnected, or air-gapped environments. - Experience supporting GEOINT, Intelligence Community, defense, or national-security missions. - Experience developing MCP servers, clients, tools, and authorization controls. - Familiarity with geospatial data, imagery services, spatial databases, knowledge graphs, or enterprise search. - Experience implementing policy-as-code, data provenance, citations, and record-level handling controls. - Familiarity with agent interoperability protocols and standardized tool interfaces. - Experience using executable specifications, contract testing, behavior-driven development, policy-as-code, or requirements-traceability tooling. - Experience with infrastructure as code, observability, and software supply-chain security. ### What’s in It for You? Flexible work environment A team mentality – work with friendly, like-minded professionals Work with innovative, cutting edge technologies Enjoy extremely competitive compensation and benefits A work-life balance you can count on Opportunities to grow and advance your career on our dime ### The Benefits You Get with Freedom Amazing benefits including matching 401k, fully paid medical, and more Generous paid time off – including paid site closure days Competitive salary offerings Paid training and tuition reimbursement Referral bonuses Fully paid life and disability Annual logo wear allowance Company sponsored events (game nights, holiday party, summer party, happy hours) Interested in learning more about Freedom and our culture? Contact us today! We’re constantly hosting hiring events in our office and elsewhere, to help you get a sense of what life is like at Freedom before joining the team. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or veteran status Applicant Federal & E-Verify Postings VEVRAA Federal Contractor **Accessibility: If you need an accommodation as part of the employment process, please contact Human Resources at** ### Phone: 410-290-9035 ### Email: recruiting@goftsg.com ### Equal Opportunity Employer, including disabled and veterans. **If you want to view the EEO Law poster, please choose your language: **English - Spanish - Arabic - Chinese **If you want to view the EEO Law Supplement poster, please choose your language: **English - Spanish - Chinese **If you want to view the Pay Transparency Policy Statement, please click the link: **English [View posting at Freedom Technology Solutions Group](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/freedomconsulting/jobs/5271318007) ## About Freedom Technology Solutions Group Builds secure software, GIS, cloud, data, DevSecOps, and cyber systems for intelligence community and DoD missions in cleared environments. 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