Company
micro1
Annual salary
$160k – $250k/yr
Location
Washington, D.C.
Listed
38d ago
- Experience:
- 0 to 10 years
- Workplace:
- Flexible hybrid, dev work is primarily remote with travel to customer/partner sites as needed in Washington, D.C.
- Equity:
- Competitive equity
Hybrid in Washington, D.C..
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About this Role
We are looking for an **AI Forward Deployed Engineer **with up to 10 years of experience to build and deploy agentic AI systems for high-impact U.S. Government missions. You'll own the full lifecycle of production-grade AI, from prototype to deployment, working 80% hands-on in engineering and 20% directly with strategic government partners in the field.
What you need
- Strong Python engineering skills with end-to-end ownership experience.
- Hands-on experience building and deploying LLM-powered agentic systems.
- Experience building or maintaining data pipelines or ML infrastructure.
- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous, partner-facing environments.
- Formal degree in a technical field; no active security clearance required on day one (sponsorship available).
What will you be doing?
Build and deploy agentic AI systems (LLMs, multi-agent, RAG, human-in-the-loop) from prototype to production for U.S. Government missions.
Work directly with government partners in forward-deployed environments to translate mission needs into real technical systems.
Design and maintain large-scale data curation, evaluation, and ML infrastructure pipelines.
Own systems across the full lifecycle, architecture, implementation, deployment, reliability, and iteration.
Build new AI systems (not maintain legacy code) that turn mission data and models into operational autonomy.
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The listing gives the location as Washington, D.C.. Flexible hybrid, dev work is primarily remote with travel to customer/partner sites as needed in Washington, D.C.
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