Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Government

HumanitApp; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Performance-based bonuses

Health insurance reimbursement (up to

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the development and deployment of applied AI systems for U.S. Government missions in the Greater Washington DC area.

The role covers model experimentation, infrastructure, and deployment in high-assurance environments, with forward-deployed work alongside government partners. You will own complex initiatives, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers, ensuring reliability, security, and mission success across the full

Qualifications

• Extensive professional software engineering experience delivering production-grade systems.
• Advanced Python engineering with end-to-end ownership.
• Experience deploying LLM applications and agentic AI systems.
• Experience designing scalable data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
• Ability to mentor engineers and lead technical initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and deployment of agentic AI systems from prototype to production.
• Architect and integrate LLM applications, including multi-agent systems and RAG workflows.
• Mentor government stakeholders and engineers to ensure mission success.
• Develop and scale data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training.
• Design and scale infrastructure for model inference and deployment.

Skills

Python

LLM applications

Agentic AI

Data pipelines

ML infrastructure

Technical leadership

Security & reliability

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead the development and deployment of applied AI systems for U.S. Government missions in the Greater Washington DC area.

The role covers model experimentation, infrastructure, and deployment in high-assurance environments, with forward-deployed work alongside government partners. You will own complex initiatives, drive architectural decisions, and mentor engineers, ensuring reliability, security, and mission success across the full