Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, AI-Powered Public Sector

People In AI; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

People In AI is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical final mile between a reusable core platform and each customer’s systems, data, and workflows. You’ll work with Forward Deployed Product Managers to turn ambiguous requirements into secure, production-ready software, while identifying patterns for reusable platform capabilities.

You’ll design integrations across legacy databases, APIs, on-premise systems, and operational workflows, and drive tooling improvements.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals and end-to-end shipping experience.
• Deep backend skills with architecture, APIs, databases, integrations, and reliability.
• Ability to move between high-level system design and detailed implementation.
• Clear communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• US citizenship required for certain government work.

Responsibilities

• Build and ship production software across customer deployments.
• Design integrations with legacy databases, APIs, on-premise systems, and operational workflows.
• Translate messy requirements into clear technical designs and working systems.
• Decide what should remain customer-specific versus become reusable platform functionality.
• Improve internal tooling, abstractions, and engineering primitives across deployments.
• Use AI coding tools to increase velocity without sacrificing technical judgment, security, or quality.
• Own software through production, including failures, edge cases, and reliability improvements.

Skills

Software engineering

Backend architecture

APIs

Data integrations

Reliability

AI coding tools

Stakeholder communication

Ownership

Tools

Claude Code

Codex

Gemini CLI

Job description

People In AI is seeking a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to own the technical final mile between a reusable core platform and each customer’s systems, data, and workflows. You’ll work with Forward Deployed Product Managers to turn ambiguous requirements into secure, production-ready software, while identifying patterns for reusable platform capabilities.

You’ll design integrations across legacy databases, APIs, on-premise systems, and operational workflows, and drive tooling improvements.