Senior Forward-Deployed AI Engineer for Government Missions

micro1; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 200,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan with company match

Equity compensation

Paid time off

Job summary

micro1 is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead design and deployment of applied AI systems for U.S. Government missions in the Greater Washington DC area, onsite 3-4 days per week.

You will own complex initiatives from architecture to production, mentoring others and ensuring high-security reliability. You will architect LLM applications, multi-agent systems, data pipelines, and ML infra, coordinating with government partners to deliver scalable, mission-critical AI solutions across

Qualifications

• Extensive professional software engineering experience with end-to-end ownership.
• Advanced Python development skills and production-ready systems.
• Strong experience designing and deploying LLM applications and agentic AI systems.
• Experience building and scaling data pipelines and ML infrastructure.
• Familiarity with RL workflows, simulation environments, or model experimentation.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
• Comfort working in high-security, mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of agentic AI systems across research and production.
• Architect and integrate LLM applications, multi-agent systems, RAG workflows, and human-in-the-loop autonomy.
• Serve as a senior technical partner to government stakeholders and translate mission needs into scalable systems.
• Oversee data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training and improvement.
• Design and scale infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, and deployment.
• Own the full technical lifecycle including security and reliability.
• Provide mentorship and drive technical decisions across the team.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

LLM applications

Data pipelines

ML infrastructure

Leadership

Govt/defense experience

Job description

micro1 is hiring a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to lead design and deployment of applied AI systems for U.S. Government missions in the Greater Washington DC area, onsite 3-4 days per week.

You will own complex initiatives from architecture to production, mentoring others and ensuring high-security reliability. You will architect LLM applications, multi-agent systems, data pipelines, and ML infra, coordinating with government partners to deliver scalable, mission-critical AI solutions across