Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal/National Security

About Us Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security. United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation’s most pressing problems. About the Role We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to join a new Stealth National Security incubation within Red Cell. You'll work directly with federal and national-security customers, and your role will sit at the intersection of software engineering, customer delivery, product development, and mission execution. As an FDE, you will embed with customer teams, understand operational workflows, identify high-value use cases, and build production-ready systems that solve real mission problems. You will move quickly from discovery to prototype to deployment, while maintaining the engineering discipline required for secure and regulated environments. This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You should be comfortable writing code, debugging systems, working with messy customer environments, translating vague requirements into concrete technical plans, and communicating clearly with both engineers and non-technical stakeholders. What You’ll Do Work di [... source excerpt omitted ...] mission workflows, pain points, data environments, and operational constraints. Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automation in secure customer environments. Translate customer needs into technical requirements, implementation plans, and product feedback for the core engineering team. Own delivery from prototype through production, including architecture, backend services, APIs, integrations, observability, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance. Integrate with customer systems, data sources, identity providers, and cloud or on-prem infrastructure. Partner with product, engineering, security, and customer teams to ensure solu [... source excerpt omitted ...] ironments involving sensitive data, government stakeholders, and mission-critical workflows. What We’re Looking For Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production-quality systems. Experience with backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or applied AI/ML systems. Ability to operate in ambiguous customer environments and turn unclear requirements into working software. Strong technical communication skills with engineers, product teams, executives, and customer stakeholders. Comfort working across the full stack when needed, including backend services, frontend interfaces, infrastructure, integrations, and d