Field Deployment Engineer for DoD Missions (Remote)

LMI; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy, integrate, and extend SPECTR for DoD customers. This hands-on role blends software engineering, systems integration, and field delivery, working with DoD users to turn requirements into working solutions.

You will deploy and validate SPECTR in customer environments, integrate it with APIs and databases, and build production-quality integrations while traveling 50–75% to installations.

Qualifications

• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• 4+ years of software engineering, systems integration, solutions engineering, or similar technical experience.
• Strong development skills in C#, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Experience developing and integrating REST APIs and working with relational databases/SQL.
• Hands-on experience deploying and troubleshooting production software.
• Experience with Linux, Docker, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS/AWS GovCloud.
• Strong understanding of networking fundamentals and distributed system troubleshooting.
• Ability to translate ambiguous customer requirements into working technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills and comfort working directly with technical and operational DoD stakeholders.
• Ability to operate independently, solve problems quickly, and work effectively in field environments.
• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Ability to travel 50–75%.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, configure, integrate, and validate SPECTR in customer environments.
• Work directly with DoD users to understand mission workflows, technical constraints, and operational pain points.
• Integrate SPECTR with customer systems, APIs, databases, data sources, networks, and mission applications.
• Build production-quality integrations, APIs, scripts, automation, and software capabilities to solve field requirements.
• Troubleshoot issues across applications, databases, containers, cloud infrastructure, networking, and connected edge systems.
• Support technical demonstrations, pilots, field tests, and operational deployments.
• Partner with Field Product Leads to translate operational needs into technical solutions and Capability Requests.
• Work with core engineering teams to transition useful field-developed capabilities into the SPECTR product.
• Document configurations, technical solutions, and lessons learned to make future deployments faster and more repeatable.
• Travel approximately 50–75% to DoD installations and other customer locations.

Skills

C#

Python

JavaScript/TypeScript

REST APIs

SQL

Linux

Docker

CI/CD

Networking basics

Tools

Docker

Git

CI/CD pipelines

AWS GovCloud

Kubernetes

Job description

LMI Government Consulting seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to deploy, integrate, and extend SPECTR for DoD customers. This hands-on role blends software engineering, systems integration, and field delivery, working with DoD users to turn requirements into working solutions.

You will deploy and validate SPECTR in customer environments, integrate it with APIs and databases, and build production-quality integrations while traveling 50–75% to installations.