# Principal Forward Deployed Engineer

About the role You would be a senior technical leader who sets architecture and engineering direction across multiple teams and engagements. This role takes the most complex technical challenges, defines platform and solution architectures for enterprise AI systems in regulated environments, and elevates engineering capability across the firm. This is a hands-on technical leadership role with broad organisational influence. What You Will Do Define architecture and technical strategy across multiple engagements, platforms, and teams. Lead the design of complex, large-scale, secure production systems for regulated enterprise clients. Set engineering standards, reference architectures, and best practices adopted firm-wide. Provide deep technical leadership on the most challenging delivery and reliability problems. Partner with delivery leadership, architects, and senior client stakeholders on technical direction and proposals. Drive build-vs-buy, technology selection, and platform investment decisions. Mentor senior and staff engineers, and grow the technical bench across teams. Contribute reusable platforms, accelerators, and frameworks that scale delivery. Champion responsible, effe

- **Id**: 3386904
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/hackertrail-principal-forward-deployed-engineer-2>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-28T05:32:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-28
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T18:45:12Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 14
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2203
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 2328067
- **Name**: HackerTrail
- **Domain**: hackertrail.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/hackertrail>
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Schema

## Technologies

- **AWS** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 14

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Languages

- Language: English; Level: All levels; Optional: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-10-28T08:03:20Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 48
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.535
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 14
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:11, agency, velocity, win:mid
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

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