Remote Mission Delivery Engineer

Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE) Location: Washington, DC Metro (preferred) / CONUS (remote) with significant customer-site travel (including secure locations) Role Overview Kamiwaza AI is seeking a Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE) to serve as a forward-deployed, hands-on technical leader for U.S. federal customers. You will own the technical journey from pre-sales discovery and proof-of-value (PoV) demos of custom applications on the Kamiwaza platform through production implementation and successful hand-off to the customer or an integration partner. This role is built for a builder who is also consultative and delivery-minded: you can run discovery, quantify value, tell a compelling technical story, write real code, and then harden what you built so it can operate reliably in mission environments (including constrained, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments).

This is not a pure presentation role and not a back-office engineering role. It is an end-to-end mission delivery role that combines pre-sales technical execution with post-sale implementation, operationalization, enablement, and structured handover. Core Mission Accelerate federal adoption of Kamiwaza by translating high-value mission use cases into credible PoVs and demo experiences, and then converting the successful PoVs into production-ready deployments and repeatable delivery patterns that reduce risk, increase win rate, and improve time-to-mission impact.

Key Responsibilities Mission Discovery, Scoping identify 2-3 high-leverage PoV use cases. Days 46-120: PoV Impact and Production Conversion Lead discovery and deliver tailored demos for priority accounts; own at least 1-2 PoV engagements end-to-end. Convert at least one PoV into a production implementation or a production-ready pilot (with deployment automation, observability, and security posture aligned to the target environment).

Establish a repeatable handoff motion with a partner or customer team (documentation, enablement sessions, and acceptance criteria). Partner with Sales/Capture to influence active pursuits with clear technical win themes and delivery risk mitigation plans. Days 121-180: Scale Repeatability and Partner Enablement Create repeatable playbooks: discovery checklist, PoV scoping templates, demo flows, production hardening checklist, and handoff/enablement kits.

Reduce time-to-demo and time-to-production by standardizing reference architectures and deployment patterns across cloud, core data centers, and edge. Enable at least one partner or customer team to independently deploy and operate a Kamiwaza-based solution using your handoff materials and training. Provide structured field feedback that influences roadmap items tied to federal deployment, security, integration needs, and delivery acceleration.

Minimum Requirements Federal Customer-Facing experience with APIs/SDKs and modern web/app frameworks). Working knowledge of GenAI systems (LLMs), RAG/retrieval, embeddings/vector search, agentic workflows, and evaluation/guardrails. Experience with distributed systems concepts and integration patterns (APIs, event-driven/streaming, data pipelines).

Experience with containerized deployments and modern DevOps practices (Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD, logging/metrics); familiarity with infrastructure as code is a plus. Consultative Communication, Ownership comfortable driving technical decisions and handling objections in real time. High ownership and bias-to-action: able to drive toward outcomes with minimal supervision while coordinating across Sales, Product, Engineering, and partners.

Security familiarity with RMF/ATO processes and NIST 800-53 control families. Experience delivering production implementations with clear operational ownership (runbooks, monitoring, incident response posture, and sustainment handoffs). Experience building integrations with common federal data platforms, streaming systems, and identity/access systems.

Prior military service or direct experience supporting operational mission teams. Published demos, open-source contributions, or prior work building reference solutions for developer platforms. Why Join Us?

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