Compare current US jobs, responsibilities, locations and advertised pay. Includes forward deployed engineering and related deployment roles. Locations cover the metro area, not only the city.
FDE roles first · Newer within each type
PalantirProduction engineering
Washington, DCOn-site
Forward Deployed Software Engineer on the Tactical Edge team, responsible for deploying and managing Palantir software across diverse hardware form factors in high-stakes, small-team environments.
$135,000–$200,000
View job →PalantirProduction engineering
Washington, DCOn-site
Forward Deployed Software Engineer at Palantir working directly with US Government customers to solve high-stakes data problems.
$135,000–$200,000
View job →AndurilProduction engineering
Arlington, VA
Senior frontend engineer on Anduril’s Discovery team, extending Lattice OS for command and control of complex assets, missile defense missions, networking, and remote asset management in far-edge environments.
$191,000–$253,000
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
Arlington, VA · Mclean, VA · +1 more
Palantir Foundry Ontology Engineer supporting Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team by translating defense mission problems into Foundry architectures, ontologies, data pipelines, workflows, and decision-support applications.
$77,600–$176,000
View job →Agile DefenseProduction engineering
Colorado Springs, CO · Falls Church, VA · +7 moreOn-site
MSS Developer role supporting federal missions across multiple DoD locations.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
Irving, TX · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more
Forward Deployed Engineer role within Accenture Security's Identity and Access Management practice, focused on building agentic identity platforms for enterprises deploying AI agents.
$54,400–$205,800
View job →EYProduction engineering
New York, NY · Atlanta, GA · +12 moreHybrid
EY-Parthenon's Growth Platforms team seeks a Software Engineering Senior Associate/Consultant to design and deliver production-grade software systems and AI-enabled tooling for Fortune 500 and growth-stage clients.
$130,000–$185,000
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
Arlington, VA
Forward Deployed Engineer on Booz Allen’s Defense Technology team who designs and delivers Palantir Foundry applications, ontologies, workflows, and production data pipelines for military and other mission stakeholders.
$77,600–$176,000
View job →WyetechProduction engineering
Laurel, MDOn-site
Senior cybersecurity AI developer building rapid prototypes and production-oriented analytical tools for defensive cyber operations supporting federal government agencies and Defense Industrial Base resources.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AccentureProduction engineering
San Francisco, CA · Milwaukee, WI · +39 more
Design, build, and operationalize AI/ML solutions for enterprise clients using Snowflake Cortex AI and related technologies.
$54,400–$205,800
View job →StriveworksProduction engineering
Fort Belvoir, VAHybrid
Machine Learning Engineer building and deploying models, custom analytics, and data engineering pipelines across image, video, text, geospatial, time-series, and structured data.
$140,000–$190,000
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
Washington, DC
Senior software engineer on the GRACE team at ARPA-H, building production agentic AI systems and LLM-powered applications.
$86,800–$198,000
View job →WyetechProduction engineering
Laurel, MDOn-site
Senior cybersecurity AI developer building rapid prototypes and production-oriented software for defensive cyber operations supporting federal agencies and Defense Industrial Base resources.
Pay range unavailable
View job →ForterraProduction engineering
Clarksburg, MD
Senior software engineer to design, develop, and field software for autonomous ground vehicles, integrating payloads onto customer-bound hardware and supporting real-world missions for national security customers.
$120,000–$200,000
View job →StriveworksProduction engineering
Fort Belvoir, VAHybrid
Senior ML Engineer role at Striveworks, a defense AI company, focused on building and deploying AI models for government customers.
$185,000–$230,000
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
San Diego, CA · Mclean, VA
Forward Deployed Engineer on Booz Allen's Defense Technology team, designing and building Palantir Foundry-based applications and ontologies to solve mission-critical problems for the military.
$77,600–$176,000
View job →LeidosProduction engineering
Laurel, MD
Cybersecurity AI Developer supporting an intelligence-sector defensive cyber operations program, building rapid prototypes and production capabilities for government agencies and Defense Industrial Base resources.
$87,100–$157,450
View job →SeekrProduction engineering
Reston, VA · Austin, TXHybrid
Build and deploy generative and predictive AI solutions for U.S.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Accrete AIProduction engineering
Alexandria, VAOn-site
This role builds production AI and automation systems for government and national security workflows, spanning data science, LLM applications, analytics, evaluation, and deployment.
$170,000–$220,000
View job →Dark Wolf SolutionsProduction engineering
Chantilly, VA · Herndon, VAOn-site
Senior AI Engineer to architect and deploy secure AI solutions for defense and federal enterprises, focusing on RAG systems, LLM agents, semantic search, and NLP-driven analytics.
$120,000–$160,000
View job →LeidosProduction engineering
Laurel, MD
Senior Cybersecurity AI Developer role in Leidos' Intel Sector, supporting Cybersecurity Defensive Operations for government agencies and the Defense Industrial Base.
$107,900–$195,050
View job →AndurilProduction engineering
Reston, VA
Mission Software Engineers own customer-deployed software spanning networking, autonomy, robotics, systems integration, and data-heavy applications.
$191,000–$253,000
View job →D2 ConsultingProduction engineering
Springfield, VA
Senior AI Developer role supporting an Intelligence customer in Springfield, VA, requiring an active TS/SCI clearance.
$175,000–$185,000
View job →RedhorseProduction engineering
Arlington, VAOn-site
Full Stack Software Engineer supporting a Department of Defense AI transformation effort across engineering, mission operations, and executive workstreams.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
Chantilly, VA
This role focuses on designing and implementing AI/ML solutions for national security missions, working directly with mission users to capture workflows and translate them into LLM-powered or agent-based automation.
$99,000–$225,000
View job →AndurilProduction engineering
Reston, VA
Senior Mission Software Engineer responsible for owning and deploying customer-facing software that integrates networking, autonomy, robotics, and complex systems.
$220,000–$292,000
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA
This role is a customer-facing Machine Learning Engineer within AWS Professional Services, focused on designing, implementing, and scaling AI/ML and generative AI solutions for government customers.
$131,300–$177,600
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +4 moreHybrid
Senior mission software engineer embedded with U.S. government customers, including military and Intelligence Community organizations, to take AI applications from prototype through production.
$186,000–$279,000
View job →Booz AllenProduction engineering
Fort Belvoir, VA · Reston, VA
This role is for an Applied AI Engineer on Booz Allen's national security team, focusing on training, testing, deploying, and maintaining ML models that process massive datasets.
$99,000–$225,000
View job →AndurilProduction engineering
Chantilly, VA
Senior Ground Software Engineer owning the architecture, deployment, and evolution of Space Command and Control and mission-management software for DoD and IC customers.
$191,000–$253,000
View job →AppianProduction engineering
Mclean, VAOn-site
Technical Consultant in Appian’s Customer Success organization, delivering post-sales software and AI solutions across the full project lifecycle on the Appian platform.
$75,000–$175,000
View job →Trase SystemsProduction engineering
Seattle, WA · Mclean, VARemote
Staff Software Engineer splitting time between building Trase's core agentic AI platform and delivering it directly to customers in regulated industries like healthcare and defense.
$180,000–$240,000
View job →Scale AIProduction engineering
Austin, TX · Colorado Springs, CO · +3 more
Field Engineer supporting federal AI projects, working directly with public-sector customers to build production-grade data pipelines and integrations.
$150,400–$226,550
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA
This role is a customer-facing Machine Learning Engineer within AWS Professional Services, focused on designing, implementing, and scaling AI/ML and generative AI solutions for enterprise customers.
$131,300–$177,600
View job →AdelphiProduction engineering
Washington, DCRemote
Forward-deployed ML engineer role embedded with defense/intelligence customers, building agentic full-stack systems on frontier models from prototype to production.
Pay range unavailable
View job →AndurilProduction engineering
Reston, VA
This front-end software engineer joins Anduril’s Mission Software Engineering team to own customer-deployed software supporting defense missions such as counter-intrusion, joint all-domain command and control, and counter-UAS.
$166,000–$220,000
View job →Radiance TechnologiesProduction engineering
Springfield, VAHybrid
This role develops geospatial analytic applications on Palantir Foundry and Gaia for NGA, building custom UIs, data pipelines, and ontologies.
Pay range unavailable
View job →Amazon (incl AWS)Production engineering
Arlington, VA · Herndon, VA
As a Machine Learning Engineer in AWS Professional Services, you will design, implement, and scale AI/ML and generative AI solutions directly with customers, guiding them through their AI transformation journey.
$131,300–$177,600
View job →Shift5Production engineering
Rosslyn, VARemote
Own end-to-end data science engagements that turn ambiguous customer problems and operational data into testable hypotheses, actionable insights, and scalable product capabilities.
$120,000–$170,000
View job →AdelphiProduction engineering
USRemote
Senior ML Engineer responsible for end-to-end delivery of agentic, full-stack AI systems, from prototype through production, for defense and intelligence customers.
Pay range unavailable
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