Senior Frontline Defense Engineer for Customer Deployments

Tagup; Mount Idaho (ID); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Stock Options

Health Insurance

401K Plan

Team Outings

Job summary

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next‑generation AI. We’re growing rapidly, seeking change‑makers passionate about solving high‑stakes problems for national security.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, plan and design end‑to‑end solutions, and ship systems that integrate with government data under real constraints. You’ll mentor teams, debug in field environments, and balance speed with robustness.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including customer-facing or systems-integration work owned end to end.
• Depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint.
• Experience deploying and debugging in environments you don’t control: government cloud, on-prem, or otherwise constrained.
• Judgment on trade-offs, and the ability to defend a design decision to a skeptical customer engineer and to your own team.
• Experience mentoring engineers and reviewing code across a team.
• Willingness to travel to customer sites (military installations across the U.S.)
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain a U.S. government security clearance

Responsibilities

• Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems, designed and built under real constraints
• Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans, and deliver multi-week engagements without close supervision
• Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers
• Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud
• Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny, and review code across the team
• Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs under program constraints
• Mentor engineers and bring what you learn in the field back to the product team

Skills

Software engineering

Customer-facing

System integration

Python/TypeScript/SQL

Government cloud

Mentoring

Travel

Security clearance

Tools

Python

TypeScript

SQL

Job description

Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision advantage with next‑generation AI. We’re growing rapidly, seeking change‑makers passionate about solving high‑stakes problems for national security.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, plan and design end‑to‑end solutions, and ship systems that integrate with government data under real constraints. You’ll mentor teams, debug in field environments, and balance speed with robustness.