Forward Deployed Engineer - Clearance Required

LMI is a digital solutions provider focused on accelerating government impact through commercial-grade platforms, mission-ready AI, and federal deployment expertise. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with mission users to identify operational needs, build and integrate full-stack and AI-enabled solutions, and take capabilities from prototype through production. The role also includes diagnosing production issues, supporting users at mission sites, mentoring engineers, and ensuring measurable mission impact.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate closely with mission users and stakeholders to understand operational requirements and translate them into technical solutions across the product, data, and integration stack
• Own architecture and implementation of new capabilities, integrations, and production improvements to ensure applications align with real-world mission objectives and user feedback
• Own key architecture decisions across application, data, integration, and AI-enabled workflows
• Design for reliability, observability, security, and constrained operating environments
• Test, deploy, and maintain new functionality and features, ensuring seamless integration with existing systems and processes
• Integrate software solutions with existing business processes, including effective use of and interaction with APIs
• Diagnose production issues directly with users and turn recurring problems into durable engineering solutions, both on-site and remotely
• Work directly with mission users to identify high-value problems and validate solutions in real operational settings
• Take capabilities from prototype to production and measure whether they improve mission outcomes
• Conduct training and mentoring sessions to empower users and junior engineers to maximize adoption and understanding of deployed capabilities
• Partner with other engineers and stakeholders to streamline development workflows and establish best practices for efficiency and scalability
• Evaluate new technologies when they provide a clear advantage in capability, reliability, cost, or delivery speed
• Prepare and present documentation, demonstrations, and reports to stakeholders, including senior executives from government and industry, showcasing progress and application performance
• Operate autonomously across ambiguous, high-priority problems and make sound technical tradeoffs
• Travel 30%+ (CONUS) to provide localized technical support at mission sites as needed

Requirements:

• This position requires an active Secret clearance
• Strong full-stack engineering experience with modern TypeScript-based applications
• Experience with modern frontend frameworks
• Experience designing and operating production backend services and APIs (e.g., Node.js or equivalent)
• Experience designing integrations across APIs, external data sources, and existing enterprise systems
• Experience shipping containerized software through modern CI/CD pipelines
• Experience deploying secure production systems in cloud environments
• Expertise in the software development lifecycle and security principles
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to interact effectively with multiple stakeholders, including senior executives from government and industry
• Ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment and prioritize effectively
• Demonstrated ability to operate with significant autonomy in dynamic, fast-paced environments
• Our current environment includes Python, TypeScript, Angular, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitLab CI/CD, and AWS GovCloud. We evaluate for strong engineering fundamentals, not a checklist of specific tools, so experience with every individual technology listed below is not required
• Applicants must meet eligibility requirements for a U.S. Government security clearance
• Only US Citizens are eligible for a security clearance
• For this position, LMI will only consider applicants with security clearances, due to the nature of the work
• React experience is a plus
• AWS GovCloud or DoD environments are a plus