Prominent Edge
Director of R&D
Washington, D · Director
No sponsorship$170k-$200kDetected 69 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaGoNode.jsGitAWSAzureCloud PlatformsKubernetesTerraformCI/CDDevOpsRESTMachine LearningData EngineeringIncident ResponseBusiness DevelopmentLeadership
About the role
- Former Palantir employees are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Why Prominent Edge As the Director of US R&D, you won't be inheriting someone else's roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Partner closely with global R&D leadership to align the US team with the broader engineering roadmap and architecture.
- Lead the GovCloud Migration
- Own the end-to-end technical migration of Windward's Maritime AI™ platform to a US GovCloud environment (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or equivalent).
- Architect and implement cloud infrastructure that meets FedRAMP, IL4/IL5, CMMC, NIST 800-53, and other applicable federal compliance frameworks.
- Build and maintain the full DevOps pipeline - CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, container orchestration, observability, and incident response - within a cleared, controlled environment.
- Develop and Maintain the Solution
- Contribute hands-on development and technical design to platform features, integrations, and capability enhancements for the US federal market.
- Maintain, support, and continuously improve the live US production environment, acting as the escalation owner for critical issues.
- Own the Customer Technical Relationship
- Lead technical reviews, architecture sessions, and capability briefings with federal stakeholders, including program managers, technical leads, and senior agency officials.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience with AI coding and agentic development tools such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or equivalent - and a track record of embedding these into engineering workflows.
- 10+ years of combined software engineering, DevOps, and cloud infrastructure experience, with at least 3-5 years in a senior technical leadership role.
- Proven, hands-on experience deploying and operating workloads in US GovCloud environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, or equivalent).
- Strong developer background with proficiency in at least one modern language (Python, Go, Java, or similar) and cloud-native, microservices architectures.
- Demonstrated track record as a customer-facing technical leader, comfortable engaging with senior government stakeholders at program and executive levels.
- Deep knowledge of federal compliance frameworks: FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5, CMMC, and/or ITAR.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, Terraform, GitOps pipelines, and modern observability tooling in restricted or air-gapped environments.
- Familiarity with data fusion architectures, multi-source intelligence platforms, or AI/ML deployment in CUI or classified environments - a strong advantage.
- Comfort with REST APIs, data engineering, and cloud security fundamentals (identity, access controls, encryption at rest and in transit).
- Experience integrating with or deploying Palantir platforms (Gotham, Foundry, AIP) in federal environments - a significant advantage.
Compensation
- $170k-$200k
Company info
- delivering intelligence that matters, to people whose decisions matter.
- Why Prominent Edge
- As the Director of US R&D, you won't be inheriting someone else's roadmap.
- You'll be writing it.
- If the idea of standing up a cleared engineering team, migrating a production AI platform to GovCloud, and becoming the technical face of that work to some of the most consequential customers in the world sounds like the role you've been waiting for - we'd like to meet you.
- Identify opportunities to adapt global platform capabilities to the specific operational and mission requirements of US federal customers.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for US federal agency customers, owning the relationship from deployment through ongoing operations.
- Windward's platform is fully operational in a US GovCloud environment, cleared and compliant for federal production use within the first year.
- US federal customers experience seamless, secure deployments and feel the Windward team is a true mission partner - not just a vendor.
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