# Principal Forward Deployment Engineer

Principal Forward Deployment Engineer The Role We are seeking a Principal Forward Deployment Engineer to join our UST-PACE SEALS (Solution Engineering and Architecture Leadership) organization. In this role, you will lead a small, forward-deployed AI squad embedded directly at enterprise client sites. You will personally design, build, and ship production-grade agentic AI systems, while owning engagements from the first sprint through signed closeout. You will architect context engineering frameworks, design RAG pipelines, build and orchestrate multi-agent systems, and deploy them to production runtimes including Amazon Bedrock AgentCore. You will establish KPI baselines, drive delivery against committed outcomes, and leave clients with working agents in production and the capability to scale independently. The ideal candidate is a hands-on engineering leader who writes Python every day, has shipped agentic systems against real enterprise data, and can operate decisively within complex enterprise environments. What You’ll Do Lead and personally contribute to the design and delivery of production agentic AI systems across the full AI-Native SDLC. Own engagement governance, includin

- **Id**: 3868089
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/ust-principal-forward-deployment-engineer>
- **Role**: Solutions
- **Role family**: Solutions
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-05T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T01:02:34Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 5
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 10190
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Life insurance, Retirement plans, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: IT Consulting & Digital Transformation, IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams

## Company

- **Id**: 1774626
- **Name**: UST
- **Domain**: ust.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/ust-com>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: services
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: RippleHire

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 76
- **Open postings**: 98
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.969
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 34
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 122000
- **Max**: 183000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 183000

## Technologies

- **AI Agents** — Optional: no
- **Arize Phoenix** — Optional: no
- **AutoGen** — Optional: no
- **AWS** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock** — Optional: no
- **AWS Bedrock AgentCore** — Optional: no
- **AWS Strands Agents** — Optional: no
- **Azure** — Optional: no
- **CI/CD** — Optional: no
- **Claude** — Optional: no
- **Context Engineering** — Optional: no
- **CrewAI** — Optional: no
- **FedRAMP** — Optional: no
- **GCP** — Optional: no
- **Gemini** — Optional: no
- **Git** — Optional: no
- **GPT-4** — Optional: no
- **Helicone** — Optional: no
- **ITSM** — Optional: no
- **KV Cache** — Optional: no
- **LangChain** — Optional: no
- **LangGraph** — Optional: no
- **LangSmith** — Optional: no
- **Llama** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Model Context Protocol** — Optional: no
- **Multi-Agent Systems** — Optional: no
- **pgvector** — Optional: no
- **Pinecone** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Caching** — Optional: no
- **Prompt Engineering** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **RAG** — Optional: no
- **SOC 2** — Optional: no
- **Weaviate** — Optional: no
- **PostgreSQL** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 5

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 10
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: yes

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T13:08:33Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 63
- **Band**: ok
- **Label**: Likely open
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.632
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 4
- **Expected fill days**: 34
- **Reasons**: conf:1, stale_co, velocity, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 183000
- **Is top pay**: no

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