Mission Delivery Engineer - Oahu

Kamiwaza AI•Oahu, HI

1d•Remote

About The Position

Kamiwaza AI is seeking a forward-deployed, hands-on technical leader to support U.S. federal customers. The Mission Delivery Engineer owns the technical journey from pre-sales discovery and proof-of-value (PoV) demonstrations of custom applications on the Kamiwaza platform through production implementation and handoff to a customer or integration partner. The role combines technical sales execution with post-sale implementation, operationalization, enablement, and structured handover, including deployments in constrained, disconnected, classified, or air-gapped mission environments. The role translates mission use cases into credible PoVs and demo experiences, then turns successful PoVs into production-ready deployments and repeatable delivery patterns. It involves customer discovery and success planning; tailored demos, workshops, and rapid prototyping; production engineering and integrations; security and deployment readiness; customer and partner handoff; technical deal support; and feedback to Product and Engineering. During the first 180 days, the engineer is expected to master the platform and establish reusable demo and PoV-to-production tools, lead priority-account discoveries and PoVs, convert at least one PoV into a production implementation or production-ready pilot, build repeatable delivery playbooks, enable a partner or customer team, and provide structured field feedback that informs the product roadmap. The position is based in Oahu, Hawaii. The posting also describes a remote-first culture and says the company is based in Colorado. The role requires U.S. citizenship, an active TS/SCI clearance, and the ability to travel within the continental United States to customer sites and secure locations as needed.

Requirements

At least 6 years of experience in customer-facing technical roles supporting U.S. federal customers.
Demonstrated ability to lead end-to-end engagements encompassing discovery, technical validation, PoV or pilot, production implementation, and handoff to a customer or partner.
Comfort operating in sensitive mission contexts and communicating within security and information-handling constraints.
Strong software engineering skills and ability to build and harden applications rapidly; Python is strongly preferred.
Experience with APIs/SDKs and modern web or application frameworks.
Working knowledge of GenAI systems, including LLMs, RAG/retrieval, embeddings/vector search, agentic workflows, and evaluation/guardrails.
Experience with distributed systems concepts and integration patterns, including APIs, event-driven or streaming systems, and data pipelines.
Experience with containerized deployments and modern DevOps practices, including Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and logging/metrics.
Ability to translate technical capabilities into mission impact and customer value for executive and practitioner audiences.
Strong storytelling, whiteboarding, and workshop facilitation skills; ability to drive technical decisions and handle objections in real time.
High ownership and bias to action, with the ability to drive outcomes with minimal supervision and coordinate across Sales, Product, Engineering, and partners.
U.S. citizenship required.
Active TS/SCI clearance required.
Ability to travel within the continental United States, including to customer sites and secure locations, as required.

Nice To Haves

Familiarity with infrastructure as code.
Experience supporting DoD/IC deployments in classified, air-gapped, or DDIL environments.
Familiarity with RMF/ATO processes and NIST 800-53 control families.
Experience delivering production implementations with clear operational ownership, including runbooks, monitoring, incident response posture, and sustainment handoffs.
Experience building integrations with common federal data platforms, streaming systems, and identity/access systems.
Prior military service or direct experience supporting operational mission teams.
Published demos, open-source contributions, or prior work building reference solutions for developer platforms.

Responsibilities

Lead technical discovery with DoD/IC and federal customers, covering mission workflows, data sources, operating constraints, stakeholders, and success criteria.
Translate discovery into use-case definitions, solution outlines, measurable PoV plans, and upfront PoV-to-production paths.
Design and deliver tailored demonstrations, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops for executive and practitioner audiences.
Build rapid prototypes and custom applications on the Kamiwaza platform using customer or representative data.
Demonstrate mission workflows such as RAG, agentic orchestration, streaming or event-driven ingestion, and edge-capable inference, aligned with customer constraints.
Instrument PoVs with evaluation and guardrails, including grounding checks, policy constraints, and transparency measures.
Convert successful PoVs into production implementations by hardening code, modularizing components, adding testing, and aligning with customer engineering standards.
Design and implement integrations with customer identity, data, and workflow systems, including APIs, messaging and streaming systems, file stores, and enterprise data platforms.
Establish deployment automation and dev/test/prod environment parity using containerization and DevOps practices.
Drive performance, reliability, observability, scaling, cost/performance tradeoffs, operational readiness, and failure-mode planning for mission workloads.
Apply security-first practices for data containment, least privilege, auditability, and safe handling of sensitive customer information.
Partner with security and accreditation stakeholders to support RMF/ATO readiness, including documentation inputs, deployment patterns, and control considerations.
Align demonstrations, PoVs, and production deployments with customer environment constraints and sustainment needs, including classified and air-gapped environments.
Deliver handoff packages such as architecture diagrams, deployment guides, runbooks, IaC/configuration artifacts, and code repositories.
Lead knowledge-transfer and enablement sessions for customer and partner engineers, operators, and sustainment teams.
Define acceptance criteria and drive documented production sign-off or an agreed transition plan.
Coordinate with systems integrators and partners on continuity from PoV through production, including responsibilities, interfaces, and escalation paths.
Partner with Sales and Capture on technical win strategies, customer objections, bid/no-bid decisions, and delivery and technical risk assessments.
Contribute technical content to proposals and responses, including architecture, integration approach, security posture, and implementation plan.
Capture structured engagement feedback and translate it into actionable product requirements.
Work with Engineering and Product to improve packaging, documentation, deployment automation, and connectors that reduce delivery friction.
Develop reusable discovery checklists, PoV scoping templates, demo flows, production-hardening checklists, and handoff and enablement kits.
Standardize reference architectures and deployment patterns across cloud, core data centers, and edge to reduce time-to-demo and time-to-production.
Within the first 180 days, achieve platform mastery; establish a repeatable demo/PoV environment and starter kit; own one to two PoV engagements; convert at least one PoV to a production implementation or production-ready pilot; and enable at least one partner or customer team to deploy and operate a solution.