Forward Deployed Engineer

Reforge Recruitment & Consultancy · Washington, District of Columbia

FULL TIME

Job Description

Agentic AI systems for high-stakes government missions, from proof of concept to production

LLM applications, including multi-agent frameworks, tool-calling agents, RAG pipelines and human-in-the-loop workflows

Data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training and iteration

1-4 years of production engineering with real shipping ownership

Strong Python, and deep hands-on experience with LLMs and agents (RAG, tool calling, multi-agent, context management)

Fundamentals first, not a vibe coder, with a track record in data pipelines and ML infrastructure

Excellent verbal communication, able to represent the company with partners

An ex-founder or founding-engineer mindset: collaborative and low ego

Ex-founder or founding engineer of a company that grew or exited

Forward-deployed or federal work at defense-tech and AI companies

Applied engineering at leading AI companies

An active security clearance

In the office in Washington, DC, five days a week, full-time. US citizens only. Applicants must be based in the DC area or able to relocate quickly.

Company	Reforge Recruitment & Consultancy
Location	Washington, District of Columbia
Type	FULL TIME
Niche	Full-time