Forward Deployed Engineer — Data Engineering & GenAI

Must Have

• Strong hands-on software engineering experience.
• Strong data engineering fundamentals, including ETL/ELT, data modeling, schema mapping, and data pipelines.
• Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services.
• Strong Python development skills.
• Hands-on experience building applications using LLMs / Generative AI.
• Experience building at least some of: AI agents, RAG systems, tool-calling workflows, LLM-powered applications, or AI workflow automation.
• Ability to take an ambiguous customer requirement and independently turn it into a working technical solution.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills across applications, APIs, infrastructure, and data.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Demonstrated ability to work directly with customers and senior stakeholders.
• Ability to operate effectively in fast-moving environments with incomplete requirements.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Based in or willing to work from the Washington, DC metro area.
• Ability to work in a hybrid environment with office/customer-site presence at least 2–3 days per week.