# Forward Deployed Engineer

Nelnet is a diversified and innovative company committed to enriching lives through the power of service as a student loan servicer, professional services company, consumer loan originator and servicer, payments processor, renewable energy solutions, and K-12 and higher education expert.For over 40 years, Nelnet has been serving its customers, associates, and communities. The perks of working at Nelnet go beyond our benefits package. When you join the Nelnet team, you're part of a community invested in the success of each individual. That support comes through in our work, as we are united by our mission of creating opportunities for people where they live, learn, and work. This role is the primary technical bridge between Nelnet’s GenAI delivery team and the higher education and SLED (state, local, and education) institutions it serves. The Forward Deployed Engineer works directly with client technical stakeholders to scope solutions built on the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (Google’s 2026 evolution of Vertex AI), translating requirements and technical compliance considerations into a scoped delivery backlog, and ensures the solutions being built map to real institutional need

- **Id**: 1100558
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nelnet-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Lincoln, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: yes
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-21T22:11:09Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T08:15:48Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 48
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10095
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: 401k plan, Hybrid work, Life insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Commercial & Retail Banks, Payment Processing & Gateways, Debt Collection & Recovery, Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)

## Company

- **Id**: 15352
- **Name**: Nelnet
- **Domain**: nelnet.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nelnet>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 100
- **Open postings**: 4
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 29
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 140000
- **Max**: 185000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 185000

## Technologies

- **.NET** — Optional: no
- **AgentOps** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **IAM** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI** — Optional: no
- **Vertex AI Agent Builder** — Optional: no
- **C#** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 48

## Requirements

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

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country
- **New Jersey** — Kind: city
- **Michigan** — Kind: city
- **Illinois** — Kind: city
- **Massachusetts** — Kind: city
- **Connecticut** — Kind: city
- **Maine** — Kind: city
- **Alabama** — Kind: city
- **New York** — Kind: city
- **Oregon** — Kind: city
- **Vermont** — Kind: city
- **Rhode Island** — Kind: city
- **Hawaii** — Kind: city
- **California** — Kind: city

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-21T22:11:09Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 28
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.623
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 48
- **Expected fill days**: 29
- **Reasons**: conf:8, velocity, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 185000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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