Red Cell Partners

Red Cell Partners

Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal/National Security

Remote (USA) · Full-time

No sponsorship$180k-$240kDetected 2 days ago
TypeScriptPythonJavaReactFastAPIDistributed SystemsBackend DevelopmentFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsDockerKubernetesTerraformCI/CDPlatform EngineeringMachine LearningData EngineeringLLMsAgentic AIAI OrchestrationCybersecurity

About the role

  • We are hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to join a new Stealth National Security incubation within Red Cell.
  • You'll work directly with federal and national-security customers, and your role will sit at the intersection of software engineering, customer delivery, product development, and mission execution.
  • This is a highly hands-on engineering role.

Responsibilities

  • Build and deploy AI-enabled applications, agents, integrations, and workflow automation in secure customer environments.
  • Own delivery from prototype through production, including architecture, backend services, APIs, integrations, observability, testing, deployment, and customer acceptance.
  • Partner with product, engineering, security, and customer teams to ensure solutions are secure, reliable, auditable, and operationally useful.
  • Debug issues in deployed environments and drive fast resolution across application, infrastructure, data, and integration layers.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and ability to build production-quality systems.
  • By submitting an application, you acknowledge that Red Cell Partners, LLC ("Red Cell") uses third-party service providers to facilitate its recruitment and hiring processes.
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Requirements

  • Experience with backend engineering, distributed systems, APIs, data pipelines, cloud infrastructure, or applied AI/ML systems.
  • Ability to operate in ambiguous customer environments and turn unclear requirements into working software.
  • Comfort working across the full stack when needed, including backend services, frontend interfaces, infrastructure, integrations, and deployment workflows.
  • Strong debugging instincts and ability to reason across application code, data, infrastructure, networking, and customer systems.
  • You will move quickly from discovery to prototype to deployment, while maintaining the engineering discipline required for secure and regulated environments.

Nice to have

  • Active Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI clearance.
  • Prior experience as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer, Mission Engineer, Product Engineer, Platform Engineer, or founding/startup engineer.
  • Experience with AI agents, LLM applications, workflow orchestration, evals, guardrails, retrieval systems, or model deployment.
  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, or government cloud environments.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, observability, and secure deployment practices.
  • Familiarity with identity and access management, audit logging, data governance, and secure software delivery.
  • We care less about exact tool familiarity and more about strong engineering judgment, adaptability, and ability to ship in complex environments.
  • Clearance / Eligibility

Compensation

  • $180,000-240,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
  • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.

Benefits

  • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health care including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family.
  • Paid maternity and paternity for 14 weeks at employees' normal pay.
  • Unlimited PTO, with management approval.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continued learning.
  • Optional 401K, FSA, and equity incentives available.
  • Mental health benefits are available through Tara Mind.

Company info

  • Red Cell Partners is an incubation firm building and investing in rapidly scalable technology-led companies that are bringing revolutionary advancements to market in three distinct practice areas: healthcare, cyber, and national security.
  • United by a shared sense of duty and deep belief in the power of innovation, Red Cell is developing powerful tools and solutions to address our Nation's most pressing problems.
  • Work directly with federal and national-security customers to understand mission workflows, pain points, data environments, and operational constraints.
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Equal opportunity

  • You'll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
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