Forward Deployed Software Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and build software applications that solve specific operational problems for our partners, owning them end-to-end from architecture through deployment.

• Take loosely defined, real-world requirements from partner militaries and organizations and turn them into working software, often on tight timelines.

• Build interfaces and connectors between our platforms and partner systems, and validate data flows end-to-end in the field.

• Deploy your solutions on site, gather feedback directly from operators, and iterate quickly based on what you see working (or not) in practice.

• Spot patterns and capabilities worth building into the core product, and work with our platform engineering team to get them there.

• Debug issues in live operational settings, drive them to resolution, and document what you learn along the way.

• Build real working relationships with client technical teams and end users so you understand their problems well enough to solve them properly.

• 4+ years building and shipping production software, in Python and at least one lower-level language (C++, Rust, Go).

• A track record of defining and building end-to-end systems: projects, internships, or early-career work where you took an ambiguous problem to a working, deployed solution.

• Comfortable owning software end-to-end — design, build, debug, deploy — including on Linux, in operational or field conditions.

• Confident and clear communicating with client technical teams and senior stakeholders, with a bias to action

• Practical under constraint: ill-defined problems, tight deadlines, and a working solution over a theoretically perfect one.

• Travel: frequent on site with partners, domestic and international.

• Proficiency in English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Prior forward-deployed, solutions engineering, or customer-facing engineering experience.

• Depth in computer vision, deep learning, mission planning, robotics, or embedded software.

• Degree from a leading engineering school.

We look forward to hearing how you can help shape the future of autonomous defense systems at Harmattan AI.