Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (Public Sector)

Quick Facts

• Role: Regional Director, Forward Deployed Engineering (Public Sector)

• Focus: Lead and scale forward deployed engineering engagements across public sector customers

Description

Forward Deployed Engineers embed with customer teams to build production-grade AI coding workflows and leave behind durable engineering habits. As Regional Director, you will lead and scale the team across priority public sector customers, own engagements from technical discovery through delivery, and build a partner track extending this work through GSIs and consulting firms. Success is measured by meaningful changes in the customer’s organization by day 30.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a regional team of Forward Deployed Engineers (hire, set technical performance standards and career paths, coach on scoping and delivery)

• Own scoping for PubSec FDE projects (run discovery and architecture reviews, surface integration and infrastructure constraints, create time-boxed proposals with clear ROI)

• Maintain delivery quality (tight scoping, milestone tracking, technical standards, clean handoffs)

• Serve as executive technical sponsor and primary customer point of contact for top-priority engagements, owning delivery and the relationship from IC engineers to the C-suite

• Build a product feedback loop with Product and Engineering to drive roadmap decisions and turn successful work into reusable solutions

• Contribute to launching and scaling the PubSec partner FDE track (train and enable GSI and consulting partners; hold them to the same quality bar)

Requirements

• Direct experience managing a team of engineers who build and ship production software

• Professional software development experience in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript

• Experience building and deploying AI-powered workflows in production environments

• U.S. citizenship required

• Active security clearance (Public Trust, Secret, Top Secret, or TS/SCI) or ability to obtain one

Benefits

• Annual salary range: $350,000–$400,000 USD (level and base salary determined case-by-case)

• Equity

• Comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance

• Various other discounts and perks