# Forward Deployed Software Engineer, Tactical Edge

About the Role Join a customer-facing engineering team that deploys and supports software in compact, resource-constrained environments, including air-gapped and on-prem systems. You will work across software and hardware to help customers keep critical workflows running in challenging field conditions. What You'll Do Work in small teams with minimal supervision to deliver high-stakes customer projects end to end. Partner with technical and non-technical customer personnel to discuss architecture and deployment needs. Deploy containerized applications to tactical edge environments, including air-gapped systems and on-prem devices. Support operations by troubleshooting network and system issues, reviewing monitoring and alerts, managing configuration and load balancing, orchestrating containers, and conducting upgrades. Resolve technical issues for deployed customers while minimizing disruption to operations. Travel to customer sites, approximately 25% of the time. What We're Looking For Two to five years of software engineering experience, including hands-on integration with physical hardware systems. An active US Security Clearance at the Secret or Top Secret level, and aut

- **Id**: 3982727
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/true-talent-solutions-partners-forward-deployed-software-engineer-tactical-edge-4>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: explicit
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: yes
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-09T18:00:21Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-09
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T11:15:40Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 1951
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4415660
- **Name**: True Talent Solutions Partners
- **Domain**: truetalentsolutionspartners.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/true-talent-solutions-partners>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Ashby

## Salary

- **Min**: 135000
- **Max**: 200000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 200000

## Technologies

- **Bash** — Optional: no
- **JavaScript** — Optional: no
- **Kubernetes** — Optional: no
- **Linux** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: yes

## Hiring locations

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

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-09T20:19:23Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 83; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 83 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 41
- **Band**: fade
- **Label**: Fading
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.451
- **P room**: 0.9
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 4
- **Reasons**: conf:4, agency, velocity, win:mid, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 200000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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