AI Field Deployment Engineer – Turn Prototypes into Production

Tactical Edge; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Tactical Edge in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to serve as a hands-on AI integrator, working closely with customer teams, operators, and internal engineering to identify high-value workflow opportunities and turn successful field experiments into reusable deployment patterns.

You will prototype rapidly, embed with customers across investigations and operations, and create lightweight playbooks while prioritizing security, governance, and reliability as we move from

Qualifications

• Experience building or integrating AI, automation, data, cloud, or operational workflow systems.
• Strong systems thinking with ability to find leverage in messy processes.
• Comfort working directly with customer teams, operators, and technical stakeholders.
• Ability to prototype quickly while maintaining security, governance, and reliability.
• Production-oriented mindset across evaluation, monitoring, failure handling, and adoption.
• Clear written communication; ability to convert field work into reusable playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Embed with customer teams to identify and accelerate high-value AI workflow opportunities.
• Build and integrate agentic AI workflows across investigations, reporting, operational analysis, customer operations, and internal tooling.
• Replace manually intensive workflows with scalable, reusable AI-enabled solutions.
• Partner with product, AI engineering, security, and customer stakeholders to move from prototype to production.
• Create reusable workflow patterns, templates, implementation notes, and lightweight operational playbooks.
• Drive hands-on adoption and enable customer teams on approved AI tools and operating patterns.
• Track adoption metrics, operational KPIs, hours saved, quality improvements, and failure modes.
• Share field learnings with the broader engineering team so one deployment improves the next

Skills

AI workflow integration

Systems thinking

Customer-facing communication

Prototype development

Production deployment mindset

Technical playbooks

Security/governance awareness

Tools

AWS AI services

Python tooling

Job description

Tactical Edge in the United States is seeking a Forward Deployment Engineer to serve as a hands-on AI integrator, working closely with customer teams, operators, and internal engineering to identify high-value workflow opportunities and turn successful field experiments into reusable deployment patterns.

You will prototype rapidly, embed with customers across investigations and operations, and create lightweight playbooks while prioritizing security, governance, and reliability as we move from