Beacon Biosignals is hiring a Forward Deployed AI Engineer. In this role, you will embed directly with strategic customers as a hands-on technical partner. Your mission will be to architect, build, deploy, and operate agentic Generative AI systems in cloud, on-prem, and edge/air-gapped environments, ensuring software runs where the mission demands.
What You'll Do
- Embed with strategic customers as a technical partner, working from problem discovery through solution implementation and customer adoption.
- Architect, build, deploy, and operate agentic Generative AI systems: APIs, data processing ETL pipelines, integration layers, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and context engineering.
- Work in cloud, on-prem, and edge/air-gapped environments.
- Prototype and deploy systems leveraging core product design patterns; bring back insights from the field to drive product improvement.
- Scope, sequence, and lead solution delivery: define roadmaps, set priorities, trade off speed vs quality vs scope, and work across teams to drive clarity and remove blockers.
- Codify reusable patterns for mission environments by building tools, internal frameworks, and playbooks.
- Act as the technical face to customer leadership: communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, build trust, manage expectations, and ensure successful scale and mission adoption.
What We're Looking For
- 3+ years of engineering or technical deployment experience (backend or full-stack), ideally in customer-facing or government environments (DoD, intelligence, public sector) or analogous high-assurance contexts.
- Strong backend engineering skills: production-grade code in Python or TypeScript; deep familiarity with designing services, APIs, data pipelines, integrations, and backend frameworks.
- Familiarity with LLMs or generative AI systems, including the fundamentals of Context Engineering and how AI capabilities integrate into larger system architectures.
- Strong ability to work in ambiguity: define scope, sequence work, make trade-offs between speed, quality, and scope; remove blockers; deliver under pressure in dynamic mission-driven settings.
- Excellent communication skills: able to translate complex technical details into clear messaging for non-technical stakeholders; work cross-functionally; build relationships.
- Mission-oriented mindset with an understanding that the work supports the defense and freedom of the nation.
- U.S. Citizenship required.
Nice to Have
- Active TS/SCI clearance or eligibility strongly preferred.
- Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes inside of air-gapped or secure environments.
- Experience with Information Retrieval fundamentals including knowledge of keyword and vector based search, document parsing and chunking, document reranking, and SQL/NoSQL search engines.
- Experience with developing, executing, and maintaining LLM evaluations.
- Experience with open source LLM or SLM models (Llama3, Mixtral, Gemma, Phi) including inference frameworks, structured output, fine-tuning, and model architecture reconfiguration.
Technical Stack
- Python
- TypeScript
- Kubernetes
- Generative AI
- LLMs
- ETL pipelines
- APIs
- Retrieval Augmented Generation
Benefits & Compensation
- Compensation: $123,250 - $201,250 USD
- Medical, Dental, and Vision premiums 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Budget
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, and the last two weeks of December
- Paid Parental Leave
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Work Mode
This position is remote within the United States.
Beacon Biosignals is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
