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Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and civilian sectors, helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\nLMI is seeking a Sales Engineering Lead to lead LIGER sales engineering for the national security market, with a focus on cleared environments across the Intelligence Community and Department of War. This lead will guide a small team of highly skilled engineers to rapidly tailor our existing platform to demonstrate how LMI can solve customers’ mission challenges.\nThe successful candidate will bring firsthand experience working with these communities, understand how technical solutions are evaluated, acquired, and deployed in classified environments, and partner with LMI’s market and business development teams to expand LIGER’s presence across new customers and mission areas. The role requires onsite work in customer secure facilities as needed for discovery, demonstrations, and technical collaboration in the National Capital Region with up to 25% travel CONUS.\nThe Sales Engineering team works closely with our existing LIGER platform team to understand how it could be leveraged to solve a wide range of challenges. Successful Sales Engineering Leads work closely with customers to deeply understand their problems and rapidly develop proof of concept demonstrations of how our tools can be used. Successful Sales Engineering Leads can effectively qualify potential leads, quickly earn customer trust, rapidly prioritize customer demands, translate these to a technical team, understand the advantages and limitations of our platforms, lead the development of rapid prototypes, and effectively communicate the value of our solutions to customers.\nResponsibilities\nResponsibilities\nWork closely with customers to deeply understand their problems and either tailor existing solutions or build something new to demonstrate how we could solve their challenges. \nGuide a small team of highly skilled engineers to tailor LIGER to customer-specific mission needs, incorporating other LMI platforms where appropriate. Prioritize reuse of existing capabilities and proven workflows, and scope new development when justified by the mission need and opportunity. \nQualify and prioritize opportunities with market and business development teams by assessing mission fit, customer sponsorship, stakeholder access, funding, acquisition pathway, deployment feasibility, and expected return on sales engineering investment before committing substantial engineering effort. \nMaintain a deep understanding of the capabilities and limitations of our platforms, and leverage this knowledge to guide solution development. \nCommunicate the value and benefits of our solutions to customers in a clear, compelling manner. \nFoster strong relationships with key stakeholders to earn trust and ensure long-term collaboration. \nProvide strategic input on product development and enhancements based on customer feedback and emerging market trends. \nCollaborate across various teams within LMI to ensure seamless integration and delivery of solutions. \nBuild trusted relationships with mission owners, operational users, technical leaders, security stakeholders, and acquisition officials across the Intelligence Community and Department of War to identify new opportunities and expand successful deployments. \nLead discovery with customer mission experts and engineers to translate operational workflows into focused demonstrations and pilots with measurable success criteria and a credible path to production adoption. \nIdentify classified-environment constraints early, including approved models, data access, integrations, hosting, security authorization, and access requirements. 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