# Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, including our most important ones. You’ll be handed an outcome rather than a specification: a program that needs our platform integrated with government data systems under real constraints. You produce the plan, make the design decisions, build it, and ship it. You’ll work directly with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and make the speed-versus-robustness trade-offs that defense delivery demands. You’ll also raise the team around you, reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and setting the standard for how the team builds with customers. Responsibilities Lead customer engagements end to end: integration with government data and systems, designed and built under real constraints Turn ambiguous requirements into technical plans, and deliver multi-week engagements without close supervision Build custom workflows that drive adoption, usage, and engagement with key customers Debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud Document design decisions that hold up under scrutiny, and review code across the team Make sound speed-versus-robustness trade-offs unde

- **Id**: 964989
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/tagup-senior-forward-deployed-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-15T18:01:33Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-15
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-13T08:28:41Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 58
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2437
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Energy AI

## Company

- **Id**: 720687
- **Name**: Tagup
- **Domain**: tagup.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/tagup-2>
- **Size band**: 51-200
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Lever

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 83
- **Open postings**: 3
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.667
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Salary estimate

- **Min usd**: 115000
- **Max usd**: 230000
- **Period**: year
- **Method**: role_seniority_country_remote_cell
- **Sample n**: 1026

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: yes
- **SQL** — Optional: yes
- **TypeScript** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 58

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 5
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-16T13:30:04Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 24
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.527
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 57
- **Expected fill days**: 30
- **Reasons**: conf:4, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

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