Pryzm
Forward Deployed Engineer
Boston, DC, or New York · Junior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 66 days ago
PythonJavaGoFull-Stack DevelopmentSQLRESTData EngineeringCRMBusiness DevelopmentProcurementCommunication
About the role
- Forward Deployed Engineers at Pryzm are the rare engineers who are equally at home in a terminal and in a customer briefing.
- FDEs are builders who also sit close to the customer, accelerating time-to-value for new deployments, and solving problems that no one has fully defined yet.
Responsibilities
- Build tooling, templates, and reusable components that accelerate future deployments
- Partner with the product engineering team to surface field-discovered bugs, feature gaps, and architecture feedback
- Own technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and IT/security leads
- 2+ years of software engineering / forward deployed engineering experience, with a strong foundation in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, or similar), at a top tier-startup, enterprise, or your own projects
Requirements
- Hands-on experience deploying or integrating software in complex, real-world environments, not just greenfield development
- Strong debugging instincts and the ability to diagnose problems across the full stack, including infrastructure and networking layers
- Exceptional written and verbal communication: you can explain a complex system to a program manager and a junior analyst in the same conversation
- Located in or willing to relocate to New York, Washington DC, or Boston. This is a fully on-site position.
- Veterans and those with military or intelligence community backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply
Nice to have
- Experience working in or alongside the federal government, defense, or intelligence community is a strong plus
- Located in or willing to relocate to New York, Washington DC, or Boston.
- US Person required
- Willingness for regular customer travel
Compensation
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary and meaningful equity
- Pryzm offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
- Platinum healthcare: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage fully covered for employees and dependents
- Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance fully covered, with the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents
Company info
- deliver the right capabilities to the missions that matter most.
- We are looking for product-minded engineers who are energized by constraints, thrive under ambiguity, and find deep satisfaction in seeing their work create real-world impact, not just ship.
- You will live at the boundary between our product and the hardest operational problems in the federal ecosystem: understanding user needs, implementing product, connecting integrations, and writing code to deliver on the most important outcomes for a customer - whether a government contractor or the government themselves.
- What We're Looking For
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