Forward Deployed Engineer - Security Clearance Eligible

Cyrad Solutions LLC; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Cyrad Solutions LLC is seeking a software engineer in Arlington, VA, or New York, NY. The role involves owning technical delivery into federal and national security environments, embedding with customer teams, and producing decision-quality evidence.

Candidates should have over 2 years in a relevant role, possess strong problem-solving skills, and be eligible for a U.S. Top Secret clearance. The total compensation ranges from $180k to $230k, plus meaningful equity.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in a software engineering or forward-deployed engineering role.
• Strong at scoping ambiguous problems and sequencing delivery.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery into federal and national security environments.
• Embed with customer teams worldwide to learn workflows.
• Run pilots, exercises, and demos structured to produce evidence.

Skills

Software engineering

Networking

Communication skills

Problem solving

Resourcefulness

Job description

Arlington, VA or New York, NY (on-site/hybrid)

The platform: a privacy-first mobile carrier built from the ground up, running its own network rather than a layer over legacy infrastructure. Secure cellular service for consumers, businesses, and government agencies, with privacy and security engineered into every layer of the stack. Series C closed in March 2026, scaling fast.

The role: the technical operator who makes the product work in the field for the customers who depend on it most. Embedded with federal and national security customers, sitting at the seam between business development and engineering. The customer's technical advocate inside the company, and the company's technical advocate inside the customer's building. Small, high-trust team writing its own playbook.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery into federal and national security environments, from first prototype through operational acceptance and sustainment
• Embed with customer teams worldwide to learn the workflows, threat models, and constraints that never make it into a requirements document
• Configure, integrate, and tune mobile core capabilities against each mission profile
• Run pilots, exercises, and demos structured to produce decision-quality evidence, not theater
• Provide live technical support during operations and incidents; run root-cause analysis and push preventive fixes into the platform
• Write production-grade code for the glue, integrations, tooling, and one-off capabilities that unblock deployments
• Prototype features in the field, validate against real mission use, and hand successful patterns to core engineering
• Translate mission requirements into prioritized engineering asks, and engineering constraints back into operator language
• Partner with BD and solutions architects to convert pilots into programs of record

Required

• 2+ years in a software engineering or forward-deployed engineering role
• Swiss-army-knife technical range: code, debug networking, reason about systems-level tradeoffs, learn fast
• Strong at scoping ambiguous problems and sequencing delivery without explicit instruction
• Sharp written and verbal communication, equally fluent briefing a flag officer, writing an engineering ticket, and running a customer working session
• High ownership and resourcefulness, including the unglamorous parts
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret clearance (active TS strongly preferred)
• Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites, military installations, and partner locations

Nice to have

• Active TS/SCI
• Prior military service, government civilian experience, or time in comms, signals, cyber, or intelligence roles
• Customer-facing technical background at a defense tech startup
• Mobile networks, telecom, networking infrastructure, or cybersecurity depth
• Early engineer or operator experience at a sub-100-person company
• Track record of taking field-driven feature work into a core roadmap

Compensation

Compensation: $180k to $230k for Arlington, VA, or New York, NY, depending on experience and interview performance, plus meaningful equity.