Forward Deployed Engineer - Resilient Edge & Tactical Networking (Senior/Staff)

The role

Senior Engineers will drive webAI Public Sector initiatives focused on secure, resilient, and distributed data systems at the tactical edge. You will architect software running across a hybrid footprint of edge nodes, mobile endpoints, and cloud sync services.

What you will do

• Design and implement store-and-forward transport and data-synchronization protocols for DDIL field conditions.
• Implement local peer discovery and async I/O transports over Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, and ad-hoc mesh networks.
• Apply delay tolerant networking principles and local conflict-free data synchronization to ensure offline functionality.
• Develop and maintain software components bridging field edge devices, mobile environments, and upstream cloud services.
• Lead tuning, memory management, and debugging for resource-constrained hardware in disconnected field deployments.
• Implement authorization and authentication security patterns suitable for DDIL and contested environments.
• Partner with hardware, mobile, and backend teams to validate functionality under field constraints.

Required qualifications

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience building robust systems software or distributed networking services.
• Strong proficiency in Rust or other systems level languages (Go, C, or C++).
• Experience with store-and-forward architectures, delay-tolerant networks (DTN), async I/O, or local device-to-device transport layers.
• Practical experience solving synchronization challenges under intermittent, contested, or low-throughput network constraints (DDIL).

Nice to have

• Experience with Android development (NDK, Kotlin, KMP, CMP, background sync services, or Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct stacks).
• Familiarity with hybrid mobile/cloud application architecture and state reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience testing and evaluating wireless networking hardware and software in physical field or operational testing environments.
• Background in content-addressable data structures, Merkle DAGs, or CRDTs.
• Expertise in embedded hardware or robotics orchestration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
• High-deductible HSA option with $200/month company contribution
• 401k match (US-based only)
• Equity options
• Flexible PTO Policy
• Parental leave for eligible employees
• Continuing education support
• Basic, company-paid life insurance
• Supplemental life insurance
• Company-paid short and long term disability
• Free parking for in-office employees

About the company

webAI believes the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge. They are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of users.