Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector
AI summary of the role
Senior Forward Deployed Engineer for a venture-backed AI security company, helping public sector customers deploy AI evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platforms in mission-critical environments.
What you’ll do
- Become deeply fluent in the company's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform.
- Work directly with federal customers to translate mission needs into solution architectures, integrations, and implementation plans.
- Create tailored demos, prototypes, workflows, and collateral for federal executives and technical teams.
- Deploy, integrate, and support the platform across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, air-gapped, and government-controlled environments.
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles (solutions, sales, product, forward-deployed, or implementation engineering).
- Strong coding ability in Python plus TypeScript, Java, Go, Bash, or similar.
- Experience building, deploying, integrating, or operating production software systems across cloud, containerized, on-prem, or enterprise environments.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML systems, including GenAI, LLM applications, evaluation, guardrails, observability, or agentic workflows.
Technologies
Python · TypeScript · Java · Go · Bash · Kubernetes · Docker · Terraform · CI/CD · AI evaluation · guardrails · agentic workflows
About Sitreps
Veteran-focused career platform and recruiting firm helping military operators transition into defense tech, private equity, and other high-intensity business roles.
Series A
Source and classification
Implementation & delivery · Evidence for this classification:
sensitive data and enforcing policy at runtime, governing what AI agents are allowed to do, and maintaining the evidence trail oversight bodies require. The platform runs across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. The team is standing up a dedicated public sector organization, and these are early seats on it. About the Role Our client is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to help public sector customers deploy and operationalize their platform in mission-critical environments. This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of software engineering, customer deployment, AI assurance, and government technology. You will write code, debug complex systems, build integrations, support deployments, and create demos, prototypes, and workflows that help customers adopt the platform. You will work directly with customer engineering teams, mission
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Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector Compensation: $167,000 – $203,000 base salary, plus equity, company benefits, and incentive compensation. Location: Washington, DC or San Francisco, CA. These are the only two locations under consideration. No other locations, and no fully remote option. Role Type: Full-Time Employee, Individual Contributor Work Model: Customer-facing, with regular on-site engagement and up to 50% travel Clearance: U.S. Citizenship required; active clearance preferred, eligibility and willingness to obtain one required Client name withheld. Sitreps Talent is managing the search, and interested candidates apply through Sitreps. About the Client Our client is a venture-backed AI security company. Their platform helps government and enterprise customers put AI systems into production safely: evaluating models and applications before deployment, protecting sensitive data and enforcing policy at runtime, governing what AI agents are allowed to do, and maintaining the evidence trail oversight bodies require. The platform runs across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. The team is standing up a dedicated public sector organization, and these are early seats on it. About the Role Our client is looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to help public sector customers deploy and operationalize their platform in mission-crit [... source excerpt omitted ...] AI assurance, and government technology. You will write code, debug complex systems, build integrations, support deployments, and create demos, prototypes, and workflows that help customers adopt the platform. You will work directly with customer engineering teams, mission users, security stakeholders, and the company's product and engineering teams to translate operational needs into working software, deployment architectures, and product feedback that shapes the roadmap and the public sector strategy. Responsibilities Become deeply fluent in the company's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform. Work directly with federal customers to understand mission needs, [... source excerpt omitted ...] m across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, air-gapped, and government-controlled environments. Troubleshoot complex implementations in partnership with engineering, platform, security, and customer teams. Bring field learnings back to product, engineering, research, and go-to-market teams to shape roadmap, delivery patterns, and customer strategy. You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have a strong technical foundation in software engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or another quantitative field. Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, from hands-on users to senior government stakeholders. Enjoy solving hard technical problems in real customer e
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