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Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Public Sector

Washington, D.C.. Posted 4 days ago

The role

You will lead and scale a team of Forward Deployed Engineers across public sector customers. You will own engagements from technical discovery through delivery and build a partner track through GSIs and consulting firms.

What you will do

  • Build and lead a team of FDEs in your region
  • Hire, set technical performance standards, and coach the team
  • Own scoping for PubSec FDE projects
  • Run discovery and architecture reviews
  • Turn ambiguous customer problems into time-boxed proposals
  • Hold the delivery quality bar across team engagements
  • Serve as executive technical sponsor and primary customer point of contact
  • Generate a product feedback loop with Product and Engineering
  • Contribute to the launch and scaling of the PubSec partner FDE track
  • Train and enable GSI and consulting partners

Required qualifications

  • Experience directly managing a team of engineers who build and ship production software
  • Professional software development experience in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript
  • Experience building and deploying AI-powered workflows in production environments

Nice to have

  • U.S. citizenship required
  • Active security clearance (Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI) or ability to obtain one
  • Leadership experience in forward deployed engineering, data science, machine learning engineering or software engineering
  • Debugging model failures in production AI systems
  • Scoping six- and seven-figure technical engagements with Sales and presenting them to C-suite and engineering leadership buyers
  • Enabling GSI or consulting partners to deliver technical engagements

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan
  • Short & long-term disability insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Various other discounts and perks

About the company

SpaceXSI is building Super Intelligence to help humanity understand the universe. They are building the full Super Intelligence stack including Colossus supercomputers, Grok models, and a suite of applications.