Forward Deployed Engineer - Software Modernization
Forward Deployed Engineer leading software modernization efforts for defense customers. Requires 5+ years building production systems, customer-facing technical leadership, and experience with secure environments and modern deployment practices.
About the job
What you’ll do
- Deploy, customize, and extend Vannevar's agentic software modernization platform to accelerate refactoring, architecture modernization, testing, and software delivery for mission-critical defense systems.
- Serve as the primary technical point of contact for customer stakeholders, partnering with government and industry teams to understand mission requirements and deliver technical outcomes.
- Collaborate with engineers, product teams, and mission experts to design and deliver software solutions that address complex systems engineering challenges.
- Analyze existing massive software architectures, development workflows, and technical constraints to identify modernization opportunities and guide implementation strategies.
- Develop technical recommendations, demonstrations, and modernization plans that help government program offices adopt AI-enabled software engineering capabilities.
What we’re looking for
- 5+ years of professional software engineering experience building and deploying production systems across the DoW or IC.
- Experience working directly with customers or stakeholders to translate mission requirements into technical solutions. Candidate should have strong technical communication skills and the ability to lead complex technical discussions with both engineers and senior stakeholders.
- Experience supporting modernization, integration, or sustainment efforts for large-scale software systems.
- Proficiency in one or more of TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, or similar programming languages.
- Experience with modern software development and deployment practices, including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and DevSecOps.
- Experience operating in regulated or secure environments, including DoD Risk Management Framework (RMF) and NIST 800-53.
What we value
- Experience with Ada, CMS-2, C++, Java, or other legacy systems languages.
- Experience building, evaluating, or operating coding agents, software engineering agents, code intelligence systems, or agentic developer tools using LangGraph, OpenAI SDK, Model Context Protocol (MCP), Agent2Agent (A2A), and more.
- Experience with software architecture reviews, systems engineering, requirements management, verification, and validation.
- Prior experience working with defense primes or government program offices.
What we offer
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Remote friendly with WeWork access
- Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
- 401(k) match
- Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
- Salary top-up during military reserve duty
- Fully paid parental leave
- Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
Skills
TypeScript, Python, Java, C++, Kubernetes, CI/CD, DevSecOps, LangGraph, Openai Sdk, Model Context Protocol
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