Federal Deployment Lead

The role

The Federal Deployment Lead will own the full lifecycle of federal agency deployments on Lemma. This role involves navigating the federal landscape, designing deployment architectures, and shaping the company's federal market strategy.

What you will do

• Own the full lifecycle of federal agency deployments
• Decompose complex problems and architect paths to production on Lemma
• Scope requirements with a federal CTO
• Map data flows across agency systems
• Prepare ATO materials
• Design multi-tenant deployment architectures
• Engage on technical trade-offs with engineering
• Help define the federal market strategy, partnerships, delivery model, and hiring

Required qualifications

• First-principles thinker
• Navigated FedRAMP, ATO packages, FISMA, NIST 800-53, or IL4/IL5
• Understand how APIs, data pipelines, orchestration engines, and AI/ML models fit together
• Shipped something meaningful in production
• Ownership as identity

Nice to have

• Active TS/SCI clearance, or an active Secret clearance with ability to obtain TS/SCI
• Direct experience deploying AI/ML systems in federal or DoD environments
• Familiarity with FedRAMP High or Moderate authorization processes
• Experience at a forward-deployed technology company operating in the federal space
• Background in data engineering, systems integration, or platform architecture
• Experience operating in early-stage environments (Series A/B)

About the company

Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies. The team includes experts with experience building AI/ML products at Palantir.