> 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. # Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector Canonical URL: https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/8ccde3e4186d1e0f Dynamo AI posts a senior FDE role to build what the customer runs in Washington, DC and 1 more with no pay posted. A senior individual-contributor engineer who deploys and operationalizes AI assurance and agent-governance capabilities for federal customers in mission-critical environments. Read from the employer’s posting on November 8, 2026. - [Dynamo AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dynamo-ai) First seen Oct 4, 2026 · open on Rippling as of Nov 8, 2026 Pay not posted Washington, DC +1 Full-time A senior individual-contributor engineer who deploys and operationalizes AI assurance and agent-governance capabilities for federal customers in mission-critical environments. - [See roles that fit me](https://nextmove.md/sign-up?from=%2Ffde%2Fjobs%2F8ccde3e4186d1e0f&placement=top) - [View posting at Dynamo AI](https://ats.rippling.com/dynamo-ai/jobs/e81c31e3-4511-4ecd-a231-e897b7e5b8e0) 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 3. Implementation 4. Operations Travel **Up to 50%** - **Coding**: Writes production code - **Builds for**: External customers - **Level**: Senior - **Role**: Individual contributor ### What they ask for Experience - **5+ years** customer-facing engineering roles *Preferred* Background - **Software engineering** - **Solutions and customer engineering** ### Do you meet what the posting states? The posting reads as a senior role. What level are you at now? The job is in Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA. Could you work in one of these? 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**: Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA - **Remote work restrictions**: Regular on-site customer engagement; Washington, DC Metro Area preferred. - **Employment type**: Full-time - **Travel**: Up to 50% ## More like this [Sitreps](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/sitreps) ### [Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/6c5d5100c300639f) Washington, DC · San Francisco, CA On-site 2mo ago $167,000–$203,000 [Accenture](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/accenture) ### [Full Stack Forward Deployed Engineering Manager](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/22c678035fc1bf46) Arlington, VA · Milwaukee, WI · +35 more 2mo ago $80,400–$316,300 [Scale AI](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/scale-ai) ### [Senior Mission Software Engineer, Public Sector](https://nextmove.md/fde/jobs/423f9f8c01b5b901) Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 more Hybrid 3mo ago $186,000–$279,000 - [Other jobs at Dynamo AI (3)](https://nextmove.md/fde/companies/dynamo-ai) ## The job description from Dynamo AI **Location:** Washington, DC Metro Area preferred **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 U.S. security clearance preferred, with eligibility and willingness to obtain one required. ### About Dynamo AI Dynamo AI helps organizations deploy AI systems that are secure, reliable, observable, policy-aligned, and production-ready. As government and enterprise customers adopt Generative AI, agentic systems, copilots, and AI-enabled workflows, Dynamo provides the custom evaluation, control, agent assurance, and observability infrastructure needed to move from experimentation to trusted production deployment. Dynamo’s platform helps customers evaluate models and applications before deployment, protect sensitive data and enforce policy during use, govern agent actions, and maintain evidence for oversight. Our capabilities are flexible across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, edge, and air-gapped environments. ### About the role We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to help public sector customers deploy and operationalize Dynamo’s 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 Dynamo’s capabilities. You will work directly with customer engineering teams, mission users, security stakeholders, and Dynamo’s product and engineering teams to translate operational needs into working software, deployment architectures, and product feedback that shapes our roadmap and public sector strategy. ### In This Role You’ll - Become deeply fluent in Dynamo’s evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform, including DynamoEval, DynamoGuard, AgentWarden, and related capabilities. - Work directly with federal customers to understand mission needs, technical requirements, pain points, and operational constraints, and convert them into practical solution architectures, integrations, and implementation plans. - Create tailored demos, prototypes, workflows, and collateral for federal executives, technical teams, and mission users, helping translate validated use cases into initial deployments. - Deploy, integrate, and support Dynamo capabilities 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 Dynamo’s 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 environments, not just in controlled demos. - Are comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous settings where you may need to build, test, explain, and iterate quickly. - Work well across users, engineers, product teams, security stakeholders, and mission owners. - Like turning field feedback into practical product improvements, deployment patterns, and customer value. - Are excited to help deploy custom AI evaluations, runtime controls, and agent governance systems in high-stakes public sector environments. ### Preferred Qualifications - 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles, including 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. - Strong debugging, problem-solving, and technical communication skills, with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous customer environments. - Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites. - U.S. Citizenship required; active U.S. security clearance preferred, with eligibility and willingness to obtain one required. ### Nice To Have Experience supporting Department of War, IC, federal civilian, or other public sector customers. - Familiarity with RMF, FedRAMP, IL environments, ATO processes, CMMC, or government software accreditation. - Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or enterprise integrations. - Experience integrating with IdAM providers, SIEMs, data platforms, APIs, secure networks, or logging and monitoring tools. - Hands-on experience with AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime guardrails, model observability, AI governance, or agentic systems. - Prior experience at a defense-tech, AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or enterprise SaaS company. - Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance. 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