Forward Deployed Engineer
Position: Forward Deployed Engineer (Delta)
Location: Boston, NYC, Washington DC (On-Site)
About Pryzm
Pryzm is transforming how organizations engage with the federal government. Today, federal procurement and business development is fragmented across disconnected workflows, siloed intelligence, and institutional knowledge locked in spreadsheets and inboxes. Pryzm’s AI brings together market intelligence, budget data, program visibility, and human insights into a single platform that helps teams navigate and win in the federal ecosystem. Big data, meets CRM, meets AI. Our mission is simple: deliver the right capabilities to the missions that matter most.
The Role
Forward Deployed Engineers at Pryzm are the rare engineers who are equally at home in a terminal and in a customer briefing. You will live at the boundary between our product and the hardest operational problems in the federal ecosystem: understanding user needs, implementing product, connecting integrations, and writing code to deliver on the most important outcomes for a customer - whether a government contractor or the government themselves.
FDEs are builders who also sit close to the customer, accelerating time-to-value for new deployments, and solving problems that no one has fully defined yet. We are looking for product-minded engineers who are energized by constraints, thrive under ambiguity, and find deep satisfaction in seeing their work create real-world impact, not just ship.
What You’ll Do
Deploy and configure the Pryzm platform in customer environments, including data ingestion pipelines, integrations, and custom workflow automation
Write production-quality code (scripts, APIs, and lightweight applications) to extend platform capabilities and solve customer-specific problems
Integrate Pryzm with third-party data sources, government systems, and customer infrastructure
Diagnose and resolve technical issues rapidly in the field, with limited access to core infrastructure or remote support
Translate operational requirements from non-technical stakeholders into clean technical specifications and working software
Build tooling, templates, and reusable components that accelerate future deployments
Partner with the product engineering team to surface field-discovered bugs, feature gaps, and architecture feedback
Own technical relationships with customer engineers, data teams, and IT/security leads
Contribute to internal knowledge bases, deployment playbooks, and engineering documentation
What We’re Looking For
2+ years of software engineering / forward deployed engineering experience, with a strong foundation in at least one backend language (Python, Go, Java, or similar), at a top tier-startup, enterprise, or your own projects
Hands-on experience deploying or integrating software in complex, real-world environments, not just greenfield development
Fluency with data: SQL, ETL pipelines, REST APIs, and working with structured and unstructured data sources
Strong debugging instincts and the ability to diagnose problems across the full stack, including infrastructure and networking layers
A customer mindset: you understand that the best technical solution is the one that actually gets used
Exceptional written and verbal communication: you can explain a complex system to a program manager and a junior analyst in the same conversation
Experience working in or alongside the federal government, defense, or intelligence community is a strong plus
Qualifications
Located in or willing to relocate to New York, Washington DC, or Boston. This is a fully on-site position.
US Person required
Veterans and those with military or intelligence community backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply
Willingness for regular customer travel
Benefits
Pryzm offers top-tier benefits for full-time employees, including:
Competitive salary and meaningful equity
Platinum healthcare: comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage fully covered for employees and dependents
Basic Life/AD&D and long-term disability insurance fully covered, with the option to purchase additional life insurance for you and your dependents
Relocation assistance available