Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government

A senior engineering role that leads the build and rollout of applied AI systems for U.S. Government partners, from model experimentation through infrastructure and production deployment. The engineer makes architecture decisions, designs agentic and LLM applications, leads large data curation and evaluation pipelines, and serves as a senior technical contact for government stakeholders. The job includes mentoring other engineers and expects time on site in the Greater Washington DC area three to four times a week.

What you would do

• Lead design and rollout of agentic AI systems for government missions from prototype to production
• Architect LLM applications including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG, and human-in-the-loop autonomy
• Act as senior technical partner to government stakeholders, turning mission needs into reliable systems
• Lead large data curation and evaluation pipelines and scale inference and experimentation infrastructure
• Make technical decisions, solve hard engineering problems, and mentor other engineers

What the listing asks for

• Extensive professional software engineering experience owning and delivering complex, production-grade systems
• Advanced Python skills with end-to-end technical ownership
• Strong hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications and agentic AI systems
• Experience scaling data pipelines, ML infrastructure, and model evaluation, plus leading initiatives and mentoring engineers
• Preferred: active U.S. security clearance or eligibility to obtain one, and government or defense experience

Suits senior Python engineers who have led complex AI deployments and want a technical leadership role working in person with government partners near Washington DC.

Listed pay: $200,000 to $250,000 a year. Where: Greater Washington DC area, on site 3 to 4 times a week. Time: Full-time. Full-time employee role on micro1's own team.

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