Forward Deployed Engineer (AI)

Location: Washington, DC, US; customer engagements may be onsite, hybrid, or remote as required, with occasional short-term travel to customer locations across the United States.

Target salary range: $145,000–$250,000 annually.

Company

hirify.global is a digital solutions provider delivering commercial-grade platforms, mission-ready AI, and federal technology solutions for defense, space, healthcare, and energy agencies.

What you will do

• Integrate the LIGER GenAI platform into customers’ existing business processes and provide technical consulting throughout deployment.
• Build customer-specific functionality and enhancements in and around the LIGER platform, then collaborate with the core product team to integrate successful features.
• Deploy and initially configure LIGER, support customers for 60–180 days after sale, and transition deployments to long-term project teams.
• Conduct proof-of-concept demonstrations and communicate the value and capabilities of technical solutions to government and industry stakeholders.
• Document customer requirements and feedback, troubleshoot deployment issues, and support continuous product improvement.
• Work with product management, engineering, support, and customers; occasionally travel to US customer locations.

Requirements

• Active Secret clearance required; only US citizens are eligible for a security clearance.
• Advanced Python proficiency and extensive PostgreSQL experience.
• Hands-on experience with LLMs, NLP, and related AI technologies used to solve real problems.
• Experience with the MEAN Stack, full-stack TypeScript development, Angular, and web applications.
• Knowledge of Docker or comparable containerization technologies and CI/CD pipelines, specifically GitLab.
• Familiarity with cloud deployment models, especially AWS GovCloud, or experience in DoD or federal environments.
• Experience integrating software with existing business processes and interacting effectively with APIs.
• Knowledge of software development lifecycle and security principles.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, prioritization, and multitasking skills, including interaction with senior government and industry executives.
• Willingness and availability for occasional project-related travel.

Nice to have

• Top Secret clearance.
• Federal government sales engineering experience and knowledge of federal customer challenges.
• Strategic relationship-building and long-term customer partnership experience.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab, Kubernetes or other container orchestration engines, and containerizing applications.
• Proficiency with MCP Server and experience building MCP tools.
• Unix/Linux experience and knowledge of AWS products, especially GovCloud.
• Familiarity with DoD cybersecurity requirements and vulnerability management.
• Leadership, management, issue resolution, and expert guidance experience.
• Ability to work quickly and independently in a small engineering team and communicate technical value to non-technical audiences.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-facing work is performed onsite, in hybrid format, or remotely according to customer requirements.
• Work supports federal missions across defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors.
• Assignments include direct collaboration with customers and internal product, engineering, and support teams.
• Occasional travel within the United States is required based on project needs.