Forward Deployed Engineer

🕒 October 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $255k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷🏻‍♀️ Engineer

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1 - 10 employees

🎖️ Defense

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

💰 $21M Venture Round on 2022-10

Defense • Consulting • Government

Onebrief is a platform that enhances and accelerates decision-making, planning, and collaboration, especially within large organizations and governmental bodies. The platform aims to streamline operations and reduce manual processes by offering real-time collaboration, data visualization, specialized workflows, and creative support tooling. Designed by senior planners, Onebrief serves as a hub for users to build plans and products efficiently, with the platform being noted for significantly improving productivity and adaptability. It is used across various networks, including SIPR and JWICS, and is regarded as a transformative tool for organizations such as the National Security Council and the US Army.

📋 Description

• Sit directly with operational users during field embeddings to translate mission friction into technically executable software solutions • Inspect schemas, write integration scripts, call REST APIs, analyze logs, and debug systems inside restricted customer environments • Identify recurring field workarounds and collaborate with Product and Core Engineering to convert localized fixes into generalized, reusable platform capabilities • Connect Onebrief Core and Atom Engine with partner C2 systems, databases, and military data structures in complex network environments • Conduct failure-domain isolation in the field and package escalations with reproduction steps, environmental states, logs, and root hypotheses • Whiteboard distributed software architecture with engineers • Brief senior military leaders or command staff on operational impact

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of progressive software engineering, solutions engineering, or field software engineering experience involving hands-on development • Proficiency in standard programming languages such as Python, C++, C#, TypeScript, Go, or similar • Hands-on experience with REST/gRPC APIs, relational databases, data modeling, JSON/XML schemas, microservices, and cloud/edge infrastructure • Ability to parse application logs, diagnose network or authentication failures across multiple systems, and isolate root causes • Exceptional ability to explain technical trade-offs and lead interactive working sessions with users • Active Secret clearance required • Willingness to travel 25–50% of the time • Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer or Field Software Engineer at enterprise software or defense-tech companies preferred • Direct experience building, deploying, or debugging software inside air-gapped DoD networks or classified environments preferred • Experience with DoD software delivery, C2 systems, combatant command structures, operational planning workflows, or military data systems preferred • Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility preferred • Hands-on experience leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity • Remote-first organization with flexible work hours • Unlimited PTO • Health, dental, vision, and life insurance • 401(k) plan with company match • 8 weeks of parental leave at 100% regardless of state • Annual company summit trips • $1,000 per year home office budget

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