Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm focused on developing technology-led solutions for national security, healthcare, and cyber sectors. They are seeking a Forward Deployed Engineer to work closely with federal and national-security customers, building and deploying AI-enabled applications that address real mission problems while maintaining high engineering standards.
Responsibilities
- Work directly with federal and national-security customers to understand mission workflows, pain points, data environments, and operational constraints
- Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automation in secure customer environments
- Translate customer needs into technical requirements, implementation plans, and product feedback for the core engineering team
- Own delivery from prototype through production, including architecture, backend services, APIs, integrations, observability, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance
- Integrate with customer systems, data sources, identity providers, and cloud or on-prem infrastructure
- Partner with product, engineering, security, and customer teams to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, auditable, and operationally useful
- Debug issues in deployed environments and drive fast resolution across application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers
- Contribute reusable patterns, platform improvements, and documentation back to the broader engineering organization
- Operate with strong judgment in environments involving sensitive data, government stakeholders, and mission-critical workflows
Skills
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production-quality systems
- Experience with backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or applied AI/ML systems
- Ability to operate in ambiguous customer environments and turn unclear requirements into working software
- Strong technical communication skills with engineers, product teams, executives, and customer stakeholders
- Comfort working across the full stack when needed, including backend services, frontend interfaces, infrastructure, integrations, and deployment workflows
- High ownership, bias for action, and ability to drive outcomes without waiting for perfect requirements
- Strong debugging instincts and ability to reason across application code, data, infrastructure, networking, and customer systems
- Interest in national-security missions and willingness to work in secure or restricted environments
- U.S. Citizen eligible for U.S. Security Secret Clearance
- Experience working with federal, defense, intelligence, or other regulated customers
- Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance
- Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Mission Engineer, Product Engineer, Platform Engineer, or founding/startup engineer
- Experience with AI agents, LLM applications, workflow orchestration, evals, guardrails, retrieval systems, or model deployment
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or government cloud environments
- Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, observability, and secure deployment practices
- Familiarity with identity and access management, audit logging, data governance, and secure software delivery
- Experience building in environments with compliance, security, or operational constraints
Benefits
- Career track opportunity with potential for rapid advancement withstrong performanceas the firm grows
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
- Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
- Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
- Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
- Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
- Mental health benefits are available through [Tara Mind](https://www.taramind.com/).
- Cost effective GLP-1 solutions available through[Crux](https://soon.getcrux.com/).
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