# Forward Deployed AI Engineer Lead

Job Family: Data Science ConsultingTravel Required: Up to 10%Clearance Required: Ability to Obtain Public TrustWhat You Will Do: As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer Lead, you will work directly with clients and multidisciplinary delivery teams to turn complex business and mission needs into practical, production-ready AI solutions. You will operate at the intersection of AI, software engineering, data, and client delivery, moving quickly from ambiguous problems to working prototypes, integrated solutions, and scalable implementation patterns. This role combines hands-on engineering, client-facing technical leadership, innovation, and team development. You will lead complex forward deployed engagements while helping build the next generation of Forward Deployed Engineers through hands-on mentorship, technical coaching, and repeatable engineering and delivery best practices. Forward Deployed Engineering & Solution Delivery Lead forward deployed engineering engagements, partnering directly with clients to understand complex workflows, identify high-value opportunities, and translate business and mission needs into working AI solutions. Rapidly design, prototype, test, and deploy generat

- **Id**: 4041715
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/guidehouse-forward-deployed-ai-engineer-lead>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Tysons, United States, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T22:23:13Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T22:23:13Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 14553
- **Description truncated**: yes
- **Benefits**: Continuous learning, Parental leave, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, Management Consulting

## Company

- **Id**: 4179
- **Name**: Guidehouse
- **Domain**: guidehouse.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/guidehouse>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 134
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.769
- **Repost share**: 0.022
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 149000
- **Max**: 248000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 248000

## Technologies

- **A2A** — Optional: no
- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Claude Code** — Optional: no
- **Embeddings** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Structured Outputs** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: yes
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: yes
- **Azure** — Optional: yes
- **Azure DevOps** — Optional: yes
- **CI/CD** — Optional: yes
- **Databricks** — Optional: yes
- **Docker** — Optional: yes
- **GCP** — Optional: yes
- **GitHub Actions** — Optional: yes
- **Hybrid Search** — Optional: yes
- **Knowledge Graph** — Optional: yes
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: yes
- **LangChain** — Optional: yes
- **LangGraph** — Optional: yes
- **LLM Guardrails** — Optional: yes
- **OpenAI** — Optional: yes
- **Reranking** — Optional: yes
- **Semantic Kernel** — Optional: yes
- **Terraform** — Optional: yes
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

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

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T22:23:13Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 63 · green card filings: 27; Filings 12m: 63

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:27:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 248000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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