# Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) C-UAS

EMPLOYER IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT. THIS POSITION REQUIRES U.S. CITIZENSHIP. Role Description This is a forward-deployed engineering role. You'll work shoulder-to-shoulder with mission heroes- the users, operators, and program engineers who run real workloads in real DoD environments- and lead the software integration of modular Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (C-UAS) sensors and effectors. You will deploy, harden, integrate, and operate our modular C-UAS solution. Forward-deployed means aligned with the mission hero, not always on a plane. Most of the work is remote. You'll travel to sites when the engagement genuinely calls for it - initial standup, in-SCIF integration work, on-the-ground incident response, training, and knowledge transfer- and you'll be on a video call or in a shared chat with that same mission hero the rest of the time. The job is being their engineer, not living at their desk. You are a cross-functional engineering leader. You can take responsibility for the full breadth of a data and software integration platform- make it work where it has to work, analyze what's running through it, and solve problems in real time for the mission hero. About 20%

- **Id**: 3825881
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/defense-unicorns-forward-deployed-engineer-fde-c-uas>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T18:18:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-05
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-11T01:18:56Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10395
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Flexible time off, Home office, Life insurance, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Stock options
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: National Security, Virtualization & Containers, DevSecOps

## Company

- **Id**: 8737
- **Name**: Defense Unicorns
- **Domain**: defenseunicorns.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/defense-unicorns>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 74
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.833
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 69
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 148750
- **Max**: 201250
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 201250

## Technologies

- **Airflow** — Optional: no
- **Amazon S3** — Optional: no
- **Apache Hudi** — Optional: no
- **Apache Iceberg** — Optional: no
- **Apache Kafka** — Optional: no
- **Argo Workflows** — Optional: no
- **ClickHouse** — Optional: no
- **Computer Vision** — Optional: no
- **Dagster** — Optional: no
- **Delta Lake** — Optional: no
- **DuckDB** — Optional: no
- **GitOps** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Loki** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: no
- **Pulumi** — Optional: no
- **Spark** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no
- **Terraform** — Optional: no
- **Trino** — Optional: no
- **Velero** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Flink** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **Grafana** — Optional: yes
- **Helm** — Optional: yes
- **Kustomize** — Optional: yes
- **Link 16** — Optional: yes
- **Polaris** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-05T18:25:59Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 69
- **Reasons**: conf:2, stale_co, velocity, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 201250
- **Is top pay**: yes

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