Software Engineer

Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Clearance EligibleArlington, Virginia, United States Or refer someone Job Openings Forward Deployed Software Engineer - Clearance EligibleArlington, VA or New York, NY (on-site/hybrid)The platform: a privacy-first mobile carrier built from the ground up, running its own network rather than a layer over legacy infrastructure. Secure cellular service for consumers, businesses, and government agencies, with privacy and security engineered into every layer of the stack. Series C closed in March 2026, scaling fast.The role: the technical operator who makes the product work in the field for the customers who depend on it most. Embedded with federal and national security customers, sitting at the seam between business development and engineering. The customer's technical advocate inside the company, and the company's technical advocate inside customer's building. Small, high-trust team writing its own playbook.The work:Own technical delivery into federal and national security environments, from first prototype through operational acceptance and sustainmentEmbed with customer teams worldwide to learn the workflows, threat models, and constraints that never make it into a requirements documentConfigure, integrate, and tune mobile core capabilities against each mission profileRun pilots, exercises, and demos structured to produce decision-quality evidence, not theaterProvide live technical support during operations and incidents; run root-cause analysis and push preventive fixes into the platformWrite production-grade code for the glue, integrations, tooling, and one-off capabilities that unblock deploymentsPrototype features in the field, validate against real mission use, and hand successful patterns to core engineeringTranslate mission requirements into prioritized engineering asks, and engineering constraints back into operator languagePartner with BD and solutions architects to convert pilots into programs of recordRequired:2+ years in a software engineering or forward-deployed engineering roleSwiss-army-knife technical range: code, debug networking, reason about systems-level tradeoffs, learn fastStrong at scoping ambiguous problems and sequencing delivery without explicit instructionSharp written and verbal communication, equally fluent briefing a flag officer, writing an engineering ticket, and running a customer working sessionHigh ownership and resourcefulness, including the unglamorous partsU.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret clearance (active TS strongly preferred)Willingness to travel up to 50% to customer sites, military installations, and partner locationsNice to have:Active TS/SCIPrior military service, government civilian experience, or time in comms, signals, cyber, or intelligence rolesCustomer-facing technical background at a defense tech startupMobile networks, telecom, networking infrastructure, or cybersecurity depthEarly engineer or operator experience at a sub-100-person companyTrack record of taking field-driven feature work into a core roadmapCompensation: $180k to $230k for Arlington, VA, or New York, NY, depending on experience and interview performance, plus meaningful equity.Or refer someone