Deployed Engineer (Federal)

LangChain • Washington, DC

5h • $150,000 - $250,000

About The Position

As a Deployed Engineer, you’ll work on some of the hardest problems in applied AI — not demos or experimental research, but production systems supporting real-world missions.
You’ll help defense, civilian, and intelligence customers design, deploy, and operate AI agents in secure, regulated, and high-stakes environments. The feedback loop is fast, the mission impact is tangible, and your work directly influences how AI agents are deployed across the federal landscape.
You will operate in environments that demand security, reliability, compliance (FedRAMP, IL levels, etc.), and operational rigor.

Requirements

• 3+ years in a relevant technical role (software engineering, customer engineering, solutions engineering, product engineering), ideally supporting federal or regulated customers
• Experience working with DoD, Civilian Agencies, Intelligence Community, or federal system integrators
• Strong Python and JavaScript fundamentals, with deep systems thinking
• Experience designing agent-based or LLM-powered systems beyond simple API calls, including multi-step workflows, orchestration, guardrails, and failure handling
• Familiarity with secure cloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, etc.)
• Comfort operating in regulated environments with security, compliance, and documentation requirements
• Experience supporting technical evaluations, architecture reviews, and competitive down-select processes
• Ability to clearly explain technical tradeoffs to government stakeholders and build trust across engineering and program leadership
• Ownership mindset — you take responsibility for mission outcomes, not just recommendations
• Bias toward action and comfort operating in ambiguity
• Excitement about running AI agents in real-world, production federal environments — not just building demos

Nice To Haves

• Active or prior U.S. security clearance (Secret, TS/SCI)
• Experience deploying AI systems in classified or air-gapped environments
• Familiarity with FedRAMP authorization processes or DoD Impact Levels (IL2–IL6)
• Experience with LLM evaluation, observability, red-teaming, or guardrails in high-assurance settings
• Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, containers, Kubernetes, and secure networking architectures
• Experience working alongside federal system integrators (Booz Allen, SAIC, Leidos, etc.)
• Production experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agent frameworks

Responsibilities

• Co-architect and co-build production AI agents with federal engineering teams and system integrators
• Own the technical win in federal pre-sales engagements by designing secure POCs, supporting RFI/RFP technical responses, and guiding technical evaluations
• Design architectures that meet federal security and compliance requirements (FedRAMP, DoD IL2–IL6, NIST, etc.)
• Help agencies deploy and operate agent-based applications such as mission support copilots, intelligence analysis agents, research automation systems, and multi-step operational workflows
• Advise customers post-award on architecture, scalability, observability, evaluation, and long-term roadmap decisions
• Deliver technical demos, workshops, and enablement sessions tailored to government developer and operator audiences
• Partner with security teams to navigate ATO processes and accreditation pathways
• Surface field feedback from federal use cases and contribute reusable patterns, secure deployment guides, and example code that scale across agencies
• Occasionally contribute code upstream when it meaningfully improves federal customer outcomes

Benefits

• We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.
• Benefits include things like medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, and life insurance.
• Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location.
• Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed