Senior Federal Forward‑Deployed Engineer

Maltego; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Maltego Federal is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal teams. You will own the technical relationship as the account expands, bridging customer mission success with product evolution and deployment execution.

You will lead requirements discovery, design end-to-end integrations, and support accreditation efforts across diverse environments, including SaaS and classified settings.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or above.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.
• 5+ years in solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, field systems engineering, or systems integration with a substantial portion supporting U.S. Government customers.
• Demonstrated experience as the technical face of a product or program inside a government customer site.
• Strong Python development skills and practical API integration experience.
• Working knowledge of cloud hosting (AWS preferred), virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems.
• Ability to run a technical workstream end-to-end - scoping, delivery, testing, deployment, and handover - with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between mission language and engineering language.
• Willingness to travel up to 40%, including overseas posts.

Responsibilities

• Serve as embedded technical lead and trusted advisor to government analysts and stakeholders.
• Design end-to-end integration architectures linking Maltego to customer systems.
• Develop and guide custom transforms, automations, and integrations.
• Support deployment across SaaS, government-hosted, and classified environments.
• Evaluate AI classifier performance and operational outcomes; translate feedback to requirements.

Skills

Python development

API integration

AWS cloud

Virtualization

Containerization

Distributed systems

Government customer experience

Comms skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Maltego platform familiarity

Job description

Maltego Federal is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to serve as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal teams. You will own the technical relationship as the account expands, bridging customer mission success with product evolution and deployment execution.

You will lead requirements discovery, design end-to-end integrations, and support accreditation efforts across diverse environments, including SaaS and classified settings.