Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal

present of AI; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognition in Washington DC is seeking a senior Customer Solutions role that is hands-on and client-facing, bridging customers and the product team for federal accounts. The role involves designing deployments, building integrations, and debugging core issues, then translating field learnings into engineering requirements.

A strong candidate has Python or TypeScript skills, government experience, and can own multiple accounts simultaneously.

Qualifications

• Hands-on developer/sysadmin kind of role interfacing with customers and product teams.
• Strong coding skills in Python or TypeScript.
• Experience with government or federal accounts is highly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design deployments for federate environments.
• Build integrations with customer systems and APIs.
• Investigate and debug complex issues highlighted by customers.
• Summarize field learnings into clear requirements for core engineering.

Skills

Python

TypeScript

Cloud knowledge

Networking basics

Security concepts

Government/federal work

Job description

Customer & Solutions · Washington DC · Remote · FullTime · Senior level

This is a hands-on technical role that sits between customers and the product team, focused on federal accounts. The work covers designing deployments, building integrations, and digging into hard bugs, then turning what is learned in the field into clear requirements for core engineering. A strong candidate has solid coding skills in Python or TypeScript, has worked with government or government-focused companies, and is comfortable owning several accounts at once.

How it fits the AI era

Devin is an AI agent that writes and ships code, so much of this job is making that kind of tool work inside large, careful organizations. AI can take on routine coding tasks, but deciding how it fits into a customer's systems, rules, and risks still takes human judgment. Spotting what the product is missing and earning the trust of customer engineers stays a people skill.

How it builds AI experience

Someone in this role would work closely with an autonomous coding agent in real federal settings, seeing where it helps and where it struggles. They would build extensions and integrations on its APIs and learn how AI agents are set up securely in enterprise environments. To prepare, try building small tools on top of AI coding products and practice explaining the tradeoffs to non-technical stakeholders.

Worth showing

• Python or TypeScript projects shipped
• Government or federal work history
• Forward-deployed or solutions engineering
• Cloud, networking, and security knowledge
• Turning customer feedback into product changes

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About Cognition

Applied AI lab building Devin, an autonomous software engineering agent that plans, writes, debugs, and deploys code