Forward Deployed Engineer (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

Lumbra•Arlington, VA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Forward Deployed Engineers build and deploy Nebula inside customer environments. Nebula, our agentic harness, runs in classified environments across the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense, and our field organization is structured as small teams embedded at a single customer site for the life of an engagement. You work directly with analysts and operators to understand what they need, then implement it: connectors against undocumented data sources, agent and integration work against undocumented workflows, and debugging in environments where standard tooling is unavailable. You report to the lead for your engagement and work alongside the Deployment Strategists on the same team. This role is on client site 80 to 100% of the time in the National Capital Region. It is not eligible for remote or hybrid work.

Requirements

4 to 8 years of professional software engineering experience.
Strong Python skills.
Experience building and operating reliable integrations, including authentication, rate limiting, and error recovery.
Working fluency in Kubernetes and containerized deployment.
Demonstrated experience working directly with non-technical users.
Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in the National Capital Region, plus periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel to supported units.
U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience deploying software in air-gapped or SCIF environments, including disconnected package management and offline container registries.
Prior work with Intelligence Community or DoD tooling, data formats, or workflows in IL6+ environments.
Experience with agentic systems, LLM application development, or evaluation of non-deterministic systems.
Helm chart authoring, workflow orchestration such as Temporal, and graph databases for entity resolution.
Rancher, ArgoCD, or Harbor in restricted environments.
Experience with, or genuine willingness to learn, the J2 and intelligence processes your users work in: the intelligence cycle, all source fusion, and at J2 sites, JIPOE and the Joint Targeting Cycle and F2T2EA.
Exposure to the intelligence tooling your users rely on, such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, TAC, FADE/MIST, VOLTRON, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future.

Responsibilities

Build and deploy Nebula inside customer environments.
Implement connectors against undocumented data sources.
Develop agent and integration work against undocumented workflows.
Debug in environments where standard tooling is unavailable.
Demonstrate the platform.
Deliver training.
Act on feedback directly.
Configure agents and workflows in partnership with the Deployment Strategist.
Develop integrations against customer data sources, including tool development, MCP server construction, and authentication.
Operate the platform to ensure reliable workflows.
Troubleshoot in air-gapped environments where external registries, package managers, and standard debugging tools are unavailable.
Ensure test coverage for error cases, network failures, and disconnected environment edge conditions.
Document learnings on site and communicate them to core engineering weekly.
Make decisions that immediately affect national security.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance. 99% of your premiums covered, and 100% of your dependents' premiums.
Optional HSA plan.
Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D, 100% company paid.
401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested.
Wellhub Gold membership.
Unlimited PTO.
Every federal holiday, plus additional paid days off over the winter break.
Supportive leave of absence program, including time off for military service, medical events, and parental leave.
Breakfast, lunch, and endless snacks every day you are in the office.
Pre-tax commuter benefits.
Company phone plan. A new iPhone, fully company paid.