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Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE)

Lexington, United StatesFull-time2026-10-15 → 2026-11-10

Core

Customer-facing engineer building data pipelines, backend services, and AI-assisted investigative tools for government agencies to combat financial crime.

Role type

Senior IC data engineer (customer delivery)

Builds

Data pipelines, backend services, and analytical solutions for government investigations

Domain

Government / Financial Crime / OSINT

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Python, SQL, data pipeline design, entity resolution, risk scoring, cloud data warehouses, Kubernetes, LLM integration, customer engagement

Preferred skills

AI tooling, graph databases, search databases, on-premises deployment

Technologies

Python, SQL, Node/TypeScript, Kubernetes, LLMs, cloud data warehouses, graph databases, search databases

Responsibilities

Own customer engagements end-to-end from discovery to delivery, identify and integrate external data sources, build data pipelines and backend services, deploy solutions into customer environments, build AI-assisted investigative tools, collaborate with R&D to share solutions

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC