Forward Deployed Engineer (Norfolk, VA area)

4+ years of experience in Forward Deployed Engineering, Solution Engineering, or similar customer-facing technical roles

Experience building and shipping full-stack applications or prototypes in production or near-production environments

Proficiency in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or similar scripting languages

Experience integrating with enterprise systems (e.g., Microsoft O365, Palantir Foundry, Databricks, ServiceNow, Atlassian)

Ability to build simple UI/UX using frameworks like Node.js, Next.js, or React

Experience building or deploying AI/ML systems, especially agentic workflows

This role sits at the edge of product and reality. You won’t be building features that may or may not get used—you’ll be building systems that are immediately deployed and tested in the field.

If you want to work close to the mission, own outcomes end-to-end, and have a direct hand in shaping both product and customer success, this is the role.

Compensation Information

$185,000

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$260,000 USD

We’re looking for a forward-deployed engineer to work directly with customers to design and build custom workflows on top of our agentic AI platform.

This is not a traditional product or platform engineering role.

You will sit with end users, understand mission needs, and rapidly develop “app packs” and workflows that solve real operational problems.

You’ll have a finger on the pulse of our end users, transforming requests and requirements into truly transformative agentic AI solutions that revolutionize user workflows.

You will spend the majority of your time (80–100%) embedded with customers, working independently in classified or constrained environments.

You’ll also act as a feedback loop into product and engineering—surfacing patterns, feature gaps, and opportunities to improve the core platform.

Let’s be real: AI isn’t magic. Legion was built to slice through hype and deliver secure, dependable agentic systems that work alongside the people tackling the world’s most critical challenges. Born from a DoW partnership and trusted by leaders across government and enterprise, Legion embeds intelligence inside complex systems—unlocking data, accelerating human workflows, and hardening mission-critical operations.

From the forward edge to Fortune 500 back offices, our agentic platform drops AI into the software people already use, optimizing, not replacing, workflows. With world-class collaborators like NVIDIA, HPE, Palantir, and Oracle, we’re building infrastructure that boosts human capability everywhere it runs.

We’re looking for bold thinkers and doers to join us in shaping an AI future that’s secure, grounded, and built to work.