Senior Federal Forward-Deployed Engineer — Remote

Fdetimes; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Deepgram seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Applied Engineering team, focusing on federal customers. You’ll embed with federal accounts to lead complex deployments of Deepgram's Voice AI platform in production environments with strict security requirements.

You will own the full technical lifecycle from discovery to deployment, to ongoing optimization, mapping customer problems and shipping fast, scalable solutions.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required.
• 5+ years engineering or deployment experience in government settings.
• Proficient in Python or JavaScript with strong problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Own technical delivery across federal deployments from prototype to production.
• Embed with federal customers to design mission-critical applications.
• Deploy models in self-hosted, air-gapped, or edge environments under constraints.
• Lead discovery and design for federal opportunities with Account Executives.
• Prototype and build full-stack integrations delivering measurable impact.
• Guide stakeholders on deployment strategies and operational value.
• Scope work, sequence delivery, and manage trade-offs between scope and quality.
• Build relationships with customer leadership for successful deployment and scale.
• Contribute to code when needed and codify patterns for reuse.
• Share feedback with Product/Engineering to influence roadmap.
• Serve as escalation point for complex federal deployments.
• Analyze deployment patterns to inform go-to-market strategy.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Engineering experience

Python

JavaScript

Government experience

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

AWS GovCloud

Azure Government

Job description

Deepgram seeks a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to join our Applied Engineering team, focusing on federal customers. You’ll embed with federal accounts to lead complex deployments of Deepgram's Voice AI platform in production environments with strict security requirements.

You will own the full technical lifecycle from discovery to deployment, to ongoing optimization, mapping customer problems and shipping fast, scalable solutions.