Forward Deployed AI Engineer Lead

Job Family: Data Science Consulting Travel Required: Up to 10% Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public Trust What You Will Do: As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer Lead, you will work directly with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams to turn complex business and mission needs into practical, production-ready AI solutions.

You will operate at the intersection of AI, software engineering, data, and client delivery, moving quickly from ambiguous problems to working prototypes, integrated solutions, and scalable implementation patterns.

This role combines hands-on engineering, client-facing technical leadership, innovation, and team development.

You will lead complex forward deployed engagements while helping build the next generation of Forward Deployed Engineers through hands-on mentorship, technical coaching, and repeatable engineering and delivery best practices.

Forward Deployed Engineering & Solution Delivery Lead forward deployed engineering engagements, partnering directly with clients to understand complex workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and translate business and mission needs into working AI solutions.

Rapidly design, prototype, test, and deploy generative AI and agentic AI applications within complex enterprise environments. Build advanced AI solutions using leading large language models, APIs, developer tooling, and enterprise AI platforms.

Translate ambiguous and evolving requirements into practical technical designs, prototypes, and production-ready solutions.

Design and implement agentic architectures incorporating Model Context Protocol (MCP), agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), tool use, structured outputs, orchestration, context management, and human review where appropriate.

Lead technical discovery sessions, architecture discussions, demonstrations, and hands-on solution working sessions with client stakeholders. Partner directly with users throughout implementation to gather feedback, d