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Salary: USD 160,000 - 200,000 / annual
Legion is an AI infrastructure company born from a Department of Defense partnership, trusted by government and enterprise leaders. The company builds secure, reliable AI systems that embed intelligence into complex, mission-critical platforms—working alongside teams tackling the world's most critical challenges. Legion partners with world-class collaborators including Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle.
The Forward Deployed Engineer role is a customer-facing technical position where you will embed with government and enterprise customers (80–100% of the time) to design and build custom workflows on top of Legion's agentic AI platform. This is not a traditional product or platform engineering role. You will sit directly with end users, understand their mission needs, and rapidly develop "app packs" and workflows that solve real operational problems. You'll operate as both a builder and a translator—turning ambiguous requirements into working systems that are immediately deployed and tested in the field.
Key responsibilities include:
- Embed with customer teams to understand mission workflows, pain points, and operational constraints
- Design and build custom applications and workflows ("app packs") on top of the platform
- Rapidly prototype and iterate on agentic AI solutions in real-world, often classified environments
- Translate non-technical user needs into technical implementations
- Operate independently in forward-deployed environments with minimal oversight
- Gather and synthesize product feedback, feature requests, and usage insights
- Collaborate with product engineering and agentic solution teams to influence roadmap and capabilities
- Integrate with enterprise systems (data platforms, ticketing systems, collaboration tools, etc.)
- Build lightweight UI components and interfaces where needed to support workflows
- Support deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing iteration of solutions in the field
You will act as a feedback loop into product and engineering, surfacing patterns, feature gaps, and opportunities to improve the core platform. Success requires autonomy, strong communication, and the ability to ship practical solutions quickly.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solution Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles
- Experience building and shipping full-stack applications or prototypes in production or near-production environments
- Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar scripting languages
- Experience integrating with enterprise systems (e.g., Microsoft O365, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, ServiceNow, Atlassian)
- Ability to build simple UI/UX using frameworks like Node.js, Next.js, or React
- Proven ability to operate autonomously and solve ambiguous problems
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience working in classified or restricted environments is a plus
- 4+ years supporting military, intelligence, or defense-related environments
- Familiarity with mission domains such as operations, logistics, intelligence, or C4/IT systems
- Experience working with government or federal customers preferred
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience building or deploying AI/ML systems, especially agentic workflows
- Familiarity with tools such as n8n, Palantir Foundry, or other workflow/automation platforms
- Experience evaluating AI system performance and interpreting results
- Exposure to product telemetry, usage analytics, or feedback-driven iteration
- Experience working in early-stage or high-growth startup environments
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: This position requires a US Department of Defense or Intelligence ACTIVE Top Secret (TS) clearance and eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI). Due to government contract requirements, only US citizens may be hired.
