Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (D.C Area)

Location: Washington D.C.; US citizenship required; US Department of Defense or Intelligence TS/SCI clearance required

Salary: $185,000–$260,000 USD per year

Company

hirify.global builds secure, reliable agentic AI systems and intelligent infrastructure for government and enterprise customers.

What you will do

• Embed with customer teams to understand mission workflows, operational constraints, and pain points.
• Design, build, prototype, and deploy custom applications and workflows on the agentic AI platform.
• Translate non-technical user needs and ambiguous requirements into working technical systems.
• Integrate enterprise systems such as Microsoft O365, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, ServiceNow, and Atlassian.
• Build lightweight UI components, support deployments and troubleshooting, and iterate on solutions in the field.
• Gather product feedback and collaborate with product engineering and agentic solution teams on roadmap improvements.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solution Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles.
• Experience building and shipping full-stack applications or prototypes in production or near-production environments.
• Proficiency in Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience building simple UI/UX with Node, Next, or React.
• Ability to operate autonomously, solve ambiguous problems, and communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• 4+ years supporting military, intelligence, or defense-related environments, with US citizenship and TS/SCI clearance required.

Nice to have

• Experience building or deploying AI/ML systems, especially agentic workflows.
• Familiarity with n8n, Palantir Foundry, or other workflow and automation platforms.
• Experience evaluating AI system performance, interpreting results, and using product telemetry or usage analytics.
• Experience working in classified or restricted environments or in early-stage and high-growth startup environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Work is 80–100% embedded with customers in classified or constrained environments.
• Own outcomes end-to-end and build systems that are immediately deployed and tested in the field.
• Collaborate closely with government, enterprise, product, engineering, and agentic solution teams.
• Equal employment opportunities are provided to employees and applicants.