Forward Deployed Engineer

Booz Allen Hamilton

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Work type
On-site
Location
McLean, VAWashington, DC
Salary
$77,600–$176,000 / yr
Employment
Full-time
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
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Below market

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This role pays less than 87% of similar roles. Most pay $147,440–$222,812 — the blue band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $127k 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 works directly with customers to turn validated AI solutions into working deployments by implementing workflows and integrating enterprise systems. You will adapt reusable agent components, configure customer environments, and diagnose integration, retrieval, model, and workflow issues. Key responsibilities include establishing evaluation baselines, coordinating readiness reviews, and preparing deployment, rollback, and troubleshooting materials. You must ensure implementation quality and provide technical handovers to operational owners. Required skills include proficiency in Python or TypeScript, experience with enterprise APIs, authentication, and data sources, and expertise in retrieval-augmented generation and tool connections. You will deploy applications in cloud or enterprise environments using security controls. Notable experience includes using LangGraph, MCP servers, LangSmith, and Langfuse to solve complex technical problems within customer-specific environments.

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 to ensure technical acceptance.
  • Establish customer evaluation baselines and coordinate readiness reviews for production.
  • Prepare deployment, rollback, troubleshooting, and technical knowledge-transfer materials.
  • Hand over completed implementations to designated operational owners and Customer Success teams.
  • Return reusable improvements and recurring defects to the core engineering team.

What we're looking for

  • 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.
  • Ability to prepare deployment and rollback procedures, runbooks, solution inventories, and technical knowledge-transfer materials.
  • Bachelor's degree.

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