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Helios Intelligence Platforms is hiring a Founding Forward Deployed Engineer

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with sales teams, company founders, and policy experts to identify customer needs and secure large government contracts
  • Quickly implement and customize early-stage products for key clients
  • Convert real-world regulatory and public sector processes into practical technical specifications
  • Represent strategic customers' perspectives during product and engineering discussions
  • Oversee technical delivery of forward-deployed proofs of concept and paid pilot programs with unique requirements
  • Identify signs of product-market fit by analyzing customer engagement, usage data, and structured input
  • Lead technical integration, data setup, and configuration for secure, compliance-heavy deployments
  • Influence product direction by directly working with voice agent technology, semantic search systems, and large language model pipelines

Benefits

  • Chance to influence both product development and policy design in a critical technology domain
  • Unique opportunity to join as an early team member in a venture-funded AI startup aiming to define a new market

Work Arrangement

On-site — New York City, Washington, D.C.

Other

  • Must be able to engage confidently with executive-level stakeholders and government officials
  • Expected to actively contribute in design files, project management tools, or code to drive implementation
Job Details
Location New York City, New York
Work mode On-site
Employment Full-time
Department Helios Team
Category other
Posted 12 days ago
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Helios is building the intelligence infrastructure organizations need to understand what government is doing, why it matters, and what to do next, while extending that foundation into secure, mission-specific systems for America’s hardest software challenges.

Starting with the government interaction layer, Helios provides policy, procurement, regulatory, funding, and stakeholder intelligence through its AI-native platform, Proxi. The platform enables teams to monitor changes, answer complex questions with source-backed intelligence, analyze dense documents, and produce actionable work product.

For more complex needs, Helios combines its technology with human expertise through applied intelligence services, including public sector capture, policy influence, and stakeholder operations. The company supports organizations ranging from startups to government agencies in navigating high-stakes decisions and institutional transformation.

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