# Forward Deployed Engineer - Contract

About The Role As a Forward Deployed Engineer, you will lead a focused three-to-four-month project (which is likely to turn into a longer-term engagement) with one of Nextdata’s initial customers. You will work closely with the customer to translate a high-value business need into a production-ready solution built on the Nextdata OS. You will own the project from use-case definition through implementation and deployment. This includes data integration, data modeling, pipelines, infrastructure, and the applications through which users and AI agents consume governed data products. A core part of the project is building a user-facing agentic application, not only the underlying data platform. You will develop workflows that allow users to ask questions, discover and combine relevant data products, invoke tools, and take governed actions. This requires practical experience with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar frameworks for implementing multi-step agent workflows, tool calling, state management, human approval steps, and reliable failure handling. You will also build the APIs, semantic interfaces, and MCP-compatible endpoints that allow the application and its agents to understand and

- **Id**: 860539
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/next-data-forward-deployed-engineer-contract>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Employment type**: contractor
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: inferred
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-07-17T11:16:03Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-07-17
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T09:18:14Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 112
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2864
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: AI Agents, Data Engineering & Migration Services

## Company

- **Id**: 680653
- **Name**: Nextdata
- **Domain**: nextdata.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/next-data>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 75
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Technologies

- **Agentic Workflows** — Optional: no
- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Function Calling** — Optional: no
- **Human-in-the-Loop** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **Semantic Search** — Optional: no
- **SQL** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: stale
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Flags**: stale
- **Days open**: 112

## Requirements

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-13T09:44:21Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 8
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.274
- **P room**: 0.28
- **Age days**: 112
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:0, win:tail, crowd:
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

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