Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE)
Location: Washington DC metro area
Role Overview
Kamiwaza AI is seeking a Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE) to serve as a forward-deployed, hands-on technical leader for U.S. federal customers. You will own the technical journey from pre-sales discovery and proof-of-value (PoV) demos of custom applications on the Kamiwaza platform through production implementation and successful hand-off to the customer or an integration partner. This role is built for a builder who is also consultative and delivery-minded: you can run discovery, quantify value, tell a compelling technical story, write real code, and then harden what you built so it can operate reliably in mission environments (including constrained, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments). This is not a pure presentation role and not a back-office engineering role. It is an end-to-end mission delivery role that combines pre-sales technical execution with post-sale implementation, operationalization, enablement, and structured handover.
Core Mission
- Accelerate federal adoption of Kamiwaza by translating high-value mission use cases into credible PoVs and demo experiences, and then converting the successful PoVs into production-ready deployments and repeatable delivery patterns that reduce risk, increase win rate, and improve time-to-mission impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Mission Discovery, Scoping & Success Planning
- Lead technical discovery with DoD/IC and federal customers: mission workflows, data sources, operating constraints (including DDIL), stakeholders, and success criteria.
- Translate discovery into a clear use case definition, solution outline, and measurable PoV plan (what 'good' looks like, how it will be measured, and what data is required).
- Define a PoV-to-production path upfront: architecture assumptions, integration points, security considerations, and what must be true for production go-live.
- Pre-Sales PoV, Demos, Workshops & Rapid Prototyping
- Design and deliver tailored demos, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops for executive and practitioner audiences.
- Build rapid prototypes and custom apps on top of the Kamiwaza platform using real or representative customer