Forward-Deployed Federal Mission Delivery Engineer

FirstMile Ventures; Silverthorne (CO); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Responsibilities include driving technical discovery, delivering tailored demos, prototyping on Kamiwaza platforms, and ensuring robust production handoffs with clear documentation and runbooks. Strong software skills (Python) and containerized deployments are required, plus travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in customer-facing technical roles (Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer, etc.) supporting U.S. federal customers.
• Ability to lead end-to-end engagements: discovery, validation, PoV, production, handoff.
• Comfort operating in sensitive mission contexts with security constraints.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical discovery with DoD/IC and federal customers: workflows, data sources, constraints, stakeholders, success criteria.
• Design and deliver tailored demos, whiteboard sessions, and workshops for executives and practitioners.
• Convert PoVs into production deployments with hardened code and deployment patterns.

Skills

Customer-facing engineering

End-to-end delivery

Security-conscious

Python

APIs/SDKs

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Logging/metrics

Job description

Responsibilities include driving technical discovery, delivering tailored demos, prototyping on Kamiwaza platforms, and ensuring robust production handoffs with clear documentation and runbooks. Strong software skills (Python) and containerized deployments are required, plus travel as needed.