Senior Forward Deployed Engineer
The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with government and defense clients to design, deploy, and maintain AI-driven supply chain risk solutions. This role involves building scalable data pipelines, operationalizing machine learning models, and integrating analytics into the company's SaaS platform.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- McLean, Virginia, United States
- Work setup
- Hybrid
- Seniority
- Senior
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Category
- Solutions engineering
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related technical field
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering, applied AI/ML, or scalable system integration
- Demonstrated experience operationalizing AI models beyond experimentation
- Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
- Deep proficiency in Python and SQL
- Experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in production environments
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake, Redshift) and secure system integration
- Ability to translate ambiguous mission problems into structured technical solutions
- Comfort working directly with senior government stakeholders
- Strong systems thinking across data pipelines, APIs, models, and visualization layers
- Ability to operate independently in dynamic, high-stakes environments
- Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements
Full description
Who We Are:
Exiger is the AI partner for supply chain and procurement automation. Its centralized platform allows organizations to manage their entire operating network, from parts to suppliers, regulators, and customers, through an autonomous agentic workforce that learns, adapts, and augments with every decision. The AI-native platform, combined with the largest supply chain knowledge asset, empowers 550+ global customers, including 150 Fortune 500 and 80+ government and defense industrial organizations, to act first. Exiger is FedRAMP® authorized and a 2x Leader in Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supplier Risk Management.
Senior Forward Deployed EngineerLocation: McLean, VirginiaWork Environment: HybridRole Summary:
Exiger is transforming how governments and global enterprises manage supply chain, defense, and geopolitical risk. Our AI-powered platform equips the world’s most important institutions with the intelligence they need to protect critical infrastructure, secure national interests, and make data-driven operational decisions.
From identifying counterfeit parts in defense supply chains to anticipating geopolitical risk exposure, Exiger enables mission owners to act with clarity and confidence in complex, high-stakes environments.
Forward Deployed AI Engineers work directly with government and defense customers to understand their most complex operational challenges and design and implement AI-driven solutions to solve them.
Our customers rely on Exiger’s platform to support mission-critical operations — often beginning with open-ended questions such as:
- “Where are vulnerabilities hidden in our supply chain?”
- “How can we proactively detect and mitigate risk before it impacts readiness?”
- “How do we modernize fragmented legacy systems into a unified intelligence capability?”
As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will combine engineering depth, AI/ML expertise, and mission understanding to deliver scalable, production-grade solutions that drive measurable real-world impact.
You will operate at the intersection of engineering, data science, and mission delivery — embedded alongside customer stakeholders and internal teams. Working in small, high-trust teams, you will own projects end-to-end — from architecture and data ingestion through model deployment, integration, and executive-level briefings.
You will not just build models — you will ensure they function reliably in production, under real-world operational constraints.
What You'll Do:
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting, cleansing, and transforming supply chain and risk-related datasets.
- Apply AI/ML methods to enhance predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and risk identification within SCRM workflows.