Forward Deployed Engineer

This position requires U.S. citizenship and the ability to obtain/maintain a security clearance.

We build workers for the work that keeps the country running.

At Statecraft, we are building an inorganic workforce to help keep the US Government running. Our AI workers are trained on government workflows, operate reliably and compliantly, and build their own tools and software to help achieve outcomes and digitally transform outdated processes.

America is not short on forms, policies, or good people. It is short on hours. Our public servants are overworked and understaffed. For too long, contractors and consultants have made empty promises to solve this problem. Instead, they've wasted billions in taxpayer dollars. We're changing this with an AI workforce that works around the clock and improves over time. On average, we save taxpayers 80% while helping agencies deliver on initiatives and their mission 10x faster.

We’ve raised a seed round, worked some pilots, and are aggressively pursuing major contracts that put us in direct competition with staffing behemoths like Accenture, Deloitte, and Booz Allen. Our product offering also brings agentic coding to the government, with our AI workers capable of building software in minutes at virtually no cost to drive out overcharging software integrators like Palantir, SAP, and Salesforce.

We’re hiring Forward Deployed Engineers to help drive this work forward.

People who are great fits for this role are typically mission driven, incredibly ambitious, and systems thinkers. As an FDE at Statecraft, you will be staffed towards numerous lines of effort, working directly with customers to identify and solve pain points. You will build out applications and systems to transform and automate workflows typically done by hand or in spreadsheets and emails. You will also build legions of AI workers tailored to specific roles to provide relief to understaffed agencies.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with key stakeholders and customers across the federal government
• Identifying key workflows or opportunities for automation
• Prototyping, iterating, and delivering AI solutions directly to customers
• Improving and expanding our core product offering
• High levels of ownership on numerous lines of effort
• Tailoring an inorganic workforce for your customers
• Working alongside AI on a daily basis

We are still incredibly early. There will be capabilities missing from our platform and bugs with the core offering; as an FDE you will leverage your technical expertise and agentic coding to navigate our massive platform and infrastructure to make necessary improvements almost immediately. We’re closing the loop on DX to operate at the speed of tokens.

Statecraft is fully AI-native. You will also have opportunities to work on our adjacent and exciting workstreams, such as building powerful tools to automate our own core business functions, and drive forward critical research into custom models, representation based tuning, and advancing efficient AI.

Of course, there are some requirements for this opportunity:

• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a security clearance
• 2+ years of experience in software roles
• Deep expertise with TypeScript in professional settings
• Familiarity with common frameworks: Vue.js, Elysia, etc.
• Experience with infrastructure: Postgres, Caddy, Tailscale, Kubernetes, etc.

And these are some additional nice-to-have’s:

• Security Clearance (of any level, active or inactive under 2 years)
• Experience in government facing or defense facing roles
• Prior experience in a Forward Deployed Engineer capacity
• Demonstrable expertise in machine learning
• Deep expertise with infrastructure and platform engineering

We want you to join us.

We can offer you a fantastic career opportunity:

• 160-220k cash salary + generous equity
• Fully Remote
• Amazing medical, dental, vision and life insurance + 401(k) matching
• Unlimited PTO + 10 standard holidays + end of year holiday break
• Touch Grass policy: must take at least 2 weeks of PTO every year!

You will love working here:

• Fix the bureaucracy and automate the government
• Work with exited founders and talent from Google, Palantir, and Department of State
• Full ownership of 7-8 figure contracts
• Everything you build will actually work and make a measurable impact
• Work on the frontier of AI on every front

And there are amazing perks:

• Generous yearly budget for your setup (e.g. Secretlab chair, dual monitors, etc.)
• Monthly coworking/WFH stipend
• Phone plan or internet bill is on us
• Monthly L&D budget (podcasts, books, game pass, etc.)
• Regular team offsites and plentiful opportunities to touch grass
• Highest spec laptops and access to H100 GPUs
• Max tier AI subscriptions and enormous AI token budgets