# Forward Deployed Engineer III

As Forward Deployed Engineer III (6706), you’ll serve as chief technologist across software architecture, AI/ML systems, data and enterprise integration. Define technical strategy, reference architectures, and guardrails; assure engineering excellence, security-by-design, and interoperability across enclaves. Span of technical responsibilities includes legacy code modernization, cloud migration and tool usage, API and AI/ML integrations, IV&V, deployments. All work will be conducted in SAFe Agile environment. We know that you can’t have great technology services without amazing people. At MetroStar, we are obsessed with our people and have led a two-decade legacy of building the best and brightest teams. Because we know our future relies on our deep understanding and relentless focus on our people, we live by our mission: A passion for our people. Value for our customers. If you think you can see yourself delivering our mission and pursuing our goals with us, then check out the job description below! What you’ll do: Lead technical discovery, integration, and implementation of an AI-enabled software platform within a classified environment. Evaluate existing applications, APIs, data

- **Id**: 943900
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/metrostar-forward-deployed-engineer-iii>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: middle
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Reston, United States, Washington, United States, Herndon, United States, Tysons, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-04T16:16:16Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T17:47:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 67
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5309
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Flexible schedule, Parental leave, Professional development, Retirement plans, Vision insurance, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Digital Government, IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, AI Consulting & Integration

## Company

- **Id**: 678241
- **Name**: MetroStar
- **Domain**: metrostar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/metrostar-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 78
- **Open postings**: 12
- **Ghost share**: 0.167
- **Stale share**: 0.583
- **Repost share**: 0.167
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 21
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 187000
- **Max**: 225000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 225000

## Technologies

- **Agile** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Rest API** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 67

## Requirements

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

### Education

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

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-15T19:43:27Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-07T14:34:34Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-07T17:14:40Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-29T06:57:45Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-29T11:16:23Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-10-30T04:42:43Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-10-30T13:38:40Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-01T07:39:27Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-01T11:39:29Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-02T07:26:51Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-02T11:55:41Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-04T05:55:39Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-04T15:15:11Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-05T05:11:36Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-05T15:33:12Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-06T05:46:38Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-06T14:25:33Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-09T05:14:40Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-09T14:54:31Z
- Event: close; At: 2026-11-10T07:13:17Z
- Event: reopen; At: 2026-11-10T12:38:27Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 6
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.209
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 66
- **Expected fill days**: 21
- **Reasons**: conf:5, stale_co, evergreen, velocity, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 225000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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