Forward Deployed Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VA
Salary
$62,000–$141,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
10 days ago
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Below market

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This role pays less than 93% of similar roles. Most pay $147,440–$222,812 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $102k versus about $185k for comparable roles.

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About Booz Allen Hamilton

Booz Allen Hamilton is a management and technology consulting firm that provides analytics, digital, engineering, and cybersecurity solutions primarily to U.S. government agencies and commercial clients. Industry: Management & Technology Consulting

Booz Allen Hamilton currently has 1662 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $86,800–$198,000 across 904 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Forward Deployed Engineer

The Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with customers to turn validated AI solutions into working deployments by implementing workflows and integrating enterprise systems. The role involves adapting reusable agent components, configuring customer environments, and diagnosing issues related to retrieval, models, and workflows. Key responsibilities include establishing evaluation baselines, coordinating readiness reviews, and preparing deployment and rollback materials. Candidates must possess experience in Python or TypeScript, integrating enterprise APIs, authentication, and data sources. Technical skills required include developing agent workflows, model integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool connections. The position requires deploying applications in cloud or enterprise environments while managing security controls. The work focuses on solving technical integration problems and ensuring implementation quality before handing off solutions to operational owners.

What does a Forward Deployed Engineer earn?

Median $219575 from 46 postings across 19 companies.

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What you'll do

  • Implement AI workflows and integrate enterprise systems into working customer deployments.
  • Adapt reusable agent components and configure customer environments with necessary instrumentation.
  • Diagnose integration, retrieval, model, and workflow issues during the deployment process.
  • Establish customer evaluation baselines and coordinate production readiness reviews.
  • Prepare deployment, rollback, troubleshooting, and technical knowledge-transfer materials.
  • Ensure technical acceptance and perform explicit handovers to operational owners and Customer Success.
  • Return reusable improvements and recurring defects to the core engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • U.S. citizenship is required.
  • Experience delivering customer-facing software or AI implementations from requirements through deployment and technical handover.
  • Experience in Python or TypeScript and integrating enterprise APIs, authentication, data sources, and business workflows.
  • Experience developing or adapting agent workflows, model integrations, retrieval-augmented generation, and tool connections.
  • Experience deploying applications in cloud or enterprise environments and configuring access, secrets, and application security controls.
  • Experience building customer-specific test and evaluation suites and validating results against agreed quality and performance thresholds.
  • Ability to implement end-to-end instrumentation and use traces, logs, and metrics to troubleshoot behavior, integrations, latency, and cost.
  • Bachelor's degree.

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