Mission Integrator

Quartermaster•Arlington, VA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Quartermaster AI, we believe the ocean should be a safe and sustainably managed resource for all. By leveraging cutting-edge AI and robotics, we unlock capabilities that were only recently impossible. Our distributed open-ocean systems enable every vessel to sense, compute, and communicate, enhancing maritime domain awareness for those who need it most. Mission Integrators are the connective tissue between users and what we build. You will embed with customers, understand their actual workflows, identify where hardware and software can change outcomes, and then make that happen. The job ends when the capability is being used and relied upon, not when it's been delivered.

Requirements

Possess excellent judgment: ability to walk into an unfamiliar environment, take in incomplete information, and develop a credible point of view on what matters and why.
Experience in or closely with operational environments: defense, federal, or adjacent. Understanding of how decisions are made in those organizations.
Ability to move between levels: comfortable with a technical deep-dive and a briefing to senior leadership without losing fidelity.
Honesty about knowledge gaps and speed in closing them.
Sufficient technical fluency to work credibly with engineers (understanding what's hard and why, without needing to write production code).
Skill in identifying what users actually need, which is different from asking them what they want.

Nice To Haves

Experience in defense, intelligence, or maritime law enforcement.
Knowledge of naval order of battle (OOB) maritime intelligence.
Familiarity with machine learning applications in maritime analytics.

Responsibilities

Spend significant time with our users.
Work alongside engineers and product designers, owning the customer relationship and the problem definition.
Sit with an analyst or operator to map a workflow end to end, then identify the one step that's actually the bottleneck.
Work with engineers to integrate a data source or configure a hardware component into a deployable solution.
Brief a program office or CIO on what we've learned and what comes next.
Run a training session and discover that what you built isn't what users needed, and then figure out why and what to do about it.
Know what's available, what gaps remain, and where Quartermaster's hardware and software fills them.