Forward Deployed Engineer - Federal

The role

Deployed Engineers provide technical depth for federal enterprise engagements. You will own strategic accounts, architect deployments, and translate customer needs into product requirements.

What you will do

• Operate across strategic accounts, providing technical depth on complex engagements
• Own the technical direction and success of customer accounts and deployments
• Translate customer pain points into product direction
• Be the connective link between Federal GTM team and core product engineering teams
• Build product extensions and integrations using Cognition’s APIs and platform primitives
• Architect and maintain complex enterprise deployments
• Handle escalated technical issues requiring deep debugging or architectural judgment
• Be a credible technical voice to engineering on what the field needs

Required qualifications

• Strong engineering foundation
• Have operated cross-functionally
• Experience working within the government or working in a government focused company
• Have a track record of pursuing excellence at high levels, in any domain
• Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, or similar
• Comfort navigating unfamiliar codebases
• Experience scoping and shipping features in collaboration with product and engineering teams

Nice to have

• Have built software at companies known for engineering rigor
• Track record in forward-deployed engineering, solutions architecture, or similar technical roles
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure (cloud deployments, networking, security)
• Want to stay close to customers while shaping how the product evolves
• Enjoy hard problems without obvious solutions and the autonomy to figure them out
• Have a high tolerance for ambiguity, intensity, and sustained effort when the problem demands it

About the company

Cognition is an applied AI lab building end-to-end software agents and the makers of Devin, the first AI software engineer.