Senior Public Sector Forward-Deployed AI Engineer

Leadout Capital; Herndon (VA); Presencial; USD 140.000 - 210.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Leadout Capital seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Public Sector team, embedded with DoD, IC, and aerospace clients to design and deploy bespoke AI solutions and a planet-scale platform with reliability and security.

This role requires an AI-first mindset, strong software engineering depth, and the ability to translate complex needs into scalable technical solutions across cloud environments. A background in defense or federal projects is preferred.

Formación

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience.
• Deep proficiency in Java, GoLang, Python, or Ruby.
• AI-first approach to engineering with AI in development workflows.
• Experience using AI tools (Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Codex, Cursor).
• Advanced prompt engineering to produce reliable, secure outputs.
• Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Salesforce Data Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery.
• Experience working in an air-gapped GovCloud environment.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams.
• Ability to travel 25–50% to customer sites.
• Active Secret or Top Secret clearance required

Responsabilidades

• Serve as technical lead on engagements—designing, building, and deploying Salesforce solutions for defense missions.
• Engineer distributed systems across thousands of compute nodes on AWS, GCP, Azure, or Alibaba Cloud.
• Develop Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform), microservices (Kubernetes, Docker), and data pipelines.
• Deliver production-grade software with AI integrated into development workflow.
• Design systems where AI agents integrate into human workflows at scale.
• Contribute to building the shared system context with designs, constraints, and standards.
• Critically evaluate code for correctness, security, and performance.
• Partner with customers and mission stakeholders to translate needs into solutions.
• Lead rapid prototyping, root cause analysis, and evangelize best practices.
• Mentor junior engineers as a technical role model

Conocimientos

Java

Go

Python

Ruby

AI-first engineering

Distributed systems

Herramientas

Terraform

Kubernetes

Docker

Salesforce Data Cloud

Snowflake

Databricks

BigQuery

GovCloud

Descripción del empleo

Leadout Capital seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer for its Public Sector team, embedded with DoD, IC, and aerospace clients to design and deploy bespoke AI solutions and a planet-scale platform with reliability and security.

This role requires an AI-first mindset, strong software engineering depth, and the ability to translate complex needs into scalable technical solutions across cloud environments. A background in defense or federal projects is preferred.