# Forward Deployed Engineer

**Company:** [Usul](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/usul)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Solutions Architecture
**Salary:** $160k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** React, Next.js, TypeScript, AI Agents, LLMs, full stack
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Forward Deployed Engineer building AI agents, LLMs, and intuitive UIs with React for government technology acquisition workflows and commercial defense contracting platform. Requires 2-8 YOE full-stack experience, confidence presenting to C-suites, willingness to travel to military bases, and passion for national security.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Work as a forward deployed engineer in the room on the data and workflows operators in the government will use daily to acquire any technology at the speed of relevance.
- Work directly on our commercial platform to help the biggest defense companies and frontier startups win government contracts across our allies.
- Build AI Agents and utilize LLMs effectively.
- Present to operators and C-suites at Fortune 500s.
- Travel to customers on site at military bases.
- Build intuitive UIs with React.
- Solve mission-critical national security problems.

## Requirements
- 2-8 YOE, full time, full stack.
- Knows how to build AI Agents and utilize LLMs effectively.
- Has confidence to present to operators and C-suites at Fortune 500s.
- Willing to travel to customers on site at military bases.
- Has passion for solving mission-critical national security problems.
- Builds intuitive UIs with React.
- Scrappy and fiery, pissed off with how the system currently works.
- ELITE Communication skills.

## Nice-to-Haves
- Holds a TS/SCI or Secret Clearance.
- Has worked on government projects before.
- Familiarity with React, NextJS, Typescript.

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