Forward Deployed Engineer

Role Summary

We're seeking a Forward Deployed Software Engineer (FDE) that operates at the intersection of product engineering, sales engineering, and technical consulting. As a builder, translator, and change agent, you will embed directly with strategic enterprise and government partners to solve their most complex operational bottlenecks.

Key Responsibilities

• Rapidly Build and Deploy: Embed with customer teams to design, build, and deploy new workflows or applications from first sketch to real-world impact
• Agentic Workflows: Design evaluation and feedback loops to verify AI performance and safety, ensuring reliable deployments. Perform threat modeling and evaluation to ensure robust guardrails and "Non-Human Identity" policies to ensure enterprise safety
• Trusted Technical Advisor: Be the principal technical interface to client leadership and stakeholders for accelerating deals and long-term strategic partnerships
• Client Enablement: As the resident expert, you'll participate with client-side workshops, technical trainings, and hackathons
• Always Improve: Extract field insights and translate them into reusable patterns, accelerators, and playbooks that strengthen the core SZNS platform for future customers

Requirements

• Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience, 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering, cloud architecture, and deployments, Strong cloud experience (GCP, AWS, Azure), Strong full-stack proficiency, particularly in Python, TypeScript, Go, Rust, or Java, Demonstrated experience building and shipping production-quality code in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, Experience deploying Agentic workflows (e.g., ADK, Agents SDK) and agent orchestration, Experience building evaluation frameworks for AI workflows and systems, Familiarity and efficient use of AI-enabled tools (e.g., Gemini Code Assist, Claude Code, or Codex), Deep customer empathy, low ego, and exceptional communication skills to bridge the gap between complex engineering systems and business leaders, Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes/GKE)
• Prior qualifications: Active Google Cloud certifications, or willingness to obtain within one month of joining, US Citizen Preferred

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Hybrid work environment (MWF in-person in our Reston office)
• A collaborative and innovative work environment
• Continuous learning and development opportunities