Thread AI

Federal Deployment Lead

New York Office · Full-time

No sponsorship$53k-$800kDetected 113 days ago

TypeScriptAWSGCPAzureMachine LearningData EngineeringAI OrchestrationProject Management

About the role

This is not a project management role, but a hybrid of strategic thinking, technical fluency, client partnership, and relentless ownership.
Shape the practice: Help define how Thread AI approaches the federal market - the strategy, partnerships, delivery model, and hiring.

Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine and is looking for dedicated individuals to join its growing team.
We believe that a small dedicated team with a flat structure and collaborative culture can move faster and build better products than large hierarchical organizations.
That belief shapes everything we build and how we operate.
Walk into a federal agency, decompose their hardest problems, architect a path to production on Lemma, and drive it to completion - through compliance, politics, and technical uncertainty.
Design multi-tenant deployment architectures, pressure-test assumptions with engineering, and engage substantively on trade-offs between approaches.
You don't need to be a compliance engineer, but you need to design delivery approaches that work within the landscape.
Own the full lifecycle: Walk into a federal agency, decompose their hardest problems, architect a path to production on Lemma, and drive it to completion - through compliance, politics, and technical uncertainty.
Make sound technical calls: Design multi-tenant deployment architectures, pressure-test assumptions with engineering, and engage substantively on trade-offs between approaches.

Active TS/SCI clearance, or an active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI.
Direct experience deploying AI/ML systems in federal or DoD environments.
Familiarity with FedRAMP High or Moderate authorization processes from the vendor or agency side.
Experience at a forward-deployed technology company operating in the federal space.
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident.

You can read an architecture diagram and spot where it will break.
You understand how APIs, data pipelines, orchestration engines, and AI/ML models fit together.
Experience with AWS/GCP/Azure, multi-tenant architectures, or AI/ML deployment patterns is a strong plus.
Technical depth: You can read an architecture diagram and spot where it will break.

The base pay range for this role is $150,000 - $230,000 per year + Equity.
Applicant must be a U.S. citizen or national or U.S. lawful, permanent resident.
This is a full-time, in-person position based at our New York City office.

We are a lean team of engineers, strategists, and product thinkers - with a co-founding team that spent the better part of a decade building AI/ML products at Palantir that were deployed across both the private sector and public sector.

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