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Troubleshoot application, API, infrastructure, integration, and data issues. Follow strong engineering practices for testing, CI/CD, monitoring, security, and documentation. Work directly with customers and senior stakeholders throughout discovery, implementation, and production deployment. Required SkillsStrong hands-on software engineering experience. Strong Python development skills. Solid data engineering experience including ETL/ELT, data modeling, schema mapping, and pipelines. Experience designing and integrating REST APIs and backend services. Hands-on experience with LLMs / Generative AI. Experience with AI agents, RAG, tool calling, LLM applications, or AI workflow automation. Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills. Ability to independently turn ambiguous requirements into working solutions. U.S. Citizenship required. Must be based in or willing to work in the Washington, DC metro area. Hybrid availability with 2 3 days per week onsite/customer-site presence. PreferredBackground as a Forward Deployed Engineer, Solutions Engineer/Architect, Technical Consultant, or customer-facing Software/Data Engineer. Federal government, defense, intelligence, national security, or mission-critical experience. AWS, Azure, or GCP experience. Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Airflow, or dbt. Experience with vector databases, embeddings, retrieval systems, and LLM frameworks. Experience deploying AI applications to production. Familiarity with AI evaluation, human-in-the-loop workflows, enterprise security, authentication, authorization, and data governance.","company":"First Soft Solutions","rawCompany":"first soft solutions","city":"Washington","state":"DC","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-10-01T22:55:10.980Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"},{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Forward Deployed AI / Data Engineer","description":"We are seeking a hands-on engineer who can work directly with customers, understand complex requirements, and rapidly build production-ready software, data, and AI solutions.Key ResponsibilitiesTranslate customer requirements into practical technical solutions. 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