Senior Forward Deployed Engineer, Public Sector

Dynamo AI

$120K — $150K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles, such as solutions, implementation, or forward-deployed engineering.
  • Strong coding skills in Python, with proficiency in TypeScript, Java, Go, Bash, or similar languages.
  • Experience deploying and integrating production software across cloud, containerized, on-prem, or enterprise environments.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML systems and their governance, including GenAI and LLMs.
  • Excellent debugging and technical communication abilities, especially in unsure customer contexts.
  • U.S. Citizenship required; active U.S. security clearance preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Become fluent in deploying and operationalizing Dynamo's platform in public sector environments.
  • Analyze federal customer needs and develop solutions based on technical requirements.
  • Create custom demos and prototypes tailored for various stakeholders.
  • Deploy and support integrations of Dynamo's capabilities in diverse settings.
  • Troubleshoot implementation issues alongside platform and engineering teams.
  • Feedback field learnings to product and engineering teams to influence the product roadmap.

Benefits

  • Work at the cutting edge of generative AI safety and compliance.
  • Collaborate with federal agencies and defense organizations on impactful AI projects.
  • Join a mission-oriented team shaping the future of trustworthy AI.
  • Receive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.
Full Job Description


About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Forward Deployed Engineer to help public sector customers deploy and operationalize Dynamo's platform in mission-critical environments.

This is a hands-on engineering role at the intersection of software engineering, customer deployment, AI assurance, and government technology. You will write code, debug complex systems, build integrations, support deployments, and create demos, prototypes, and workflows that help customers adopt Dynamo's capabilities.

You will work directly with customer engineering teams, mission users, security stakeholders, and Dynamo's product and engineering teams to translate operational needs into working software, deployment architectures, and product feedback that shapes our roadmap and public sector strategy.

In This Role You'll

  • Become deeply fluent in Dynamo's evaluation, guardrail, and agent governance platform, including DynamoEval, DynamoGuard, AgentWarden, and related capabilities.
  • Work directly with federal customers to understand mission needs, technical requirements, pain points, and operational constraints, and convert them into practical solution architectures, integrations, and implementation plans.
  • Create tailored demos, prototypes, workflows, and collateral for federal executives, technical teams, and mission users, helping translate validated use cases into initial deployments.
  • Deploy, integrate, and support Dynamo capabilities across cloud, hybrid, on-prem, air-gapped, and government-controlled environments.
  • Troubleshoot complex implementations in partnership with engineering, platform, security, and customer teams.
  • Bring field learnings back to Dynamo's product, engineering, research, and go-to-market teams to shape roadmap, delivery patterns, and customer strategy.

You Might Thrive In This Role If You

  • Have a strong technical foundation in software engineering, computer science, applied mathematics, or another quantitative field.
  • Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical audiences, from hands-on users to senior government stakeholders.
  • Enjoy solving hard technical problems in real customer environments, not just in controlled demos.
  • Are comfortable operating in fast-moving, ambiguous settings where you may need to build, test, explain, and iterate quickly.
  • Work well across users, engineers, product teams, security stakeholders, and mission owners.
  • Like turning field feedback into practical product improvements, deployment patterns, and customer value.
  • Are excited to help deploy custom AI evaluations, runtime controls, and agent governance systems in high-stakes public sector environments.

Preferred Qualifications

  • 5+ years in customer-facing engineering roles, including solutions, sales, product, forward-deployed, or implementation engineering.
  • Strong coding ability in Python plus TypeScript, Java, Go, Bash, or similar.
  • Experience building, deploying, integrating, or operating production software systems across cloud, containerized, on-prem, or enterprise environments.
  • Working knowledge of AI/ML systems, including GenAI, LLM applications, evaluation, guardrails, observability, or agentic workflows.
  • Strong debugging, problem-solving, and technical communication skills, with the ability to operate independently in ambiguous customer environments.
  • Willingness to travel regularly to customer sites.
  • U.S. Citizenship required; active U.S. security clearance preferred, with eligibility and willingness to obtain one required.

Nice To Have

  • Experience supporting Department of War, IC, federal civilian, or other public sector customers.
  • Familiarity with RMF, FedRAMP, IL environments, ATO processes, CMMC, or government software accreditation.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or enterprise integrations.
  • Experience integrating with IdAM providers, SIEMs, data platforms, APIs, secure networks, or logging and monitoring tools.
  • Hands-on experience with AI evaluation, red-teaming, runtime guardrails, model observability, AI governance, or agentic systems.
  • Prior experience at a defense-tech, AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or enterprise SaaS company.
  • Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance.

Why Join Us

  • Work at the forefront of generative AI safety and compliance.
  • Partner with federal agencies, defense organizations, primes, and systems integrators to move real-world AI assurance deployments from opportunity to award and adoption.
  • Be part of a mission-driven team defining the future of trustworthy AI for defense and the enterprise.
  • Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits.

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