Remote Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Government Missions

micro1; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Health-insurance premium reimbursement

401(K) plan with company match

Remote-first workforce

Job summary

micro1 is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for U.S. Government work, focusing on applied AI from research to production in high-assurance environments. Remote-first role requiring relocation to DC area.

You will partner with government customers, design agentic LLM systems, build data pipelines, and develop scalable infra for inference and evaluation. Eligible for equity and performance bonuses, with strong compensation range.

Qualifications

• Strong Python engineer with end-to-end ownership experience.
• Experience with LLMs and agentic systems.
• Built or maintained data pipelines / ML infrastructure.
• Familiar with RL workflows or simulation environments.
• Comfortable in high-security, high-reliability environments.
• Able to work independently in partner-facing settings.

Responsibilities

• Build and deploy agentic AI systems for government missions from prototype to production.
• Design and integrate LLM applications, multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, and RAG workflows.
• Collaborate with government partners in forward-deployed environments to translate mission needs into technical systems.
• Develop data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training and improvement.
• Create infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment.
• Build AI systems turning mission data, models, and tools into operational autonomy.
• Own systems across discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, reliability, security, and iteration.

Skills

Python

End-to-end ownership

LLMs

Agentic systems

Data pipelines / ML infra

RL workflows / simulations

Secure / high-reliability

Independent / partner-facing

Job description

micro1 is hiring a Forward Deployed Engineer for U.S. Government work, focusing on applied AI from research to production in high-assurance environments. Remote-first role requiring relocation to DC area.

You will partner with government customers, design agentic LLM systems, build data pipelines, and develop scalable infra for inference and evaluation. Eligible for equity and performance bonuses, with strong compensation range.