Aslan
Forward Deployed Engineer
Washington, DC Metro Area · Full-time · Posted Jul 10, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years of software engineering.
About the job
Embeds with customers to write production code, tailor Aslan’s platform to operational missions, and feed deployment insights back to the core engineering team.
What you'll do
- Build custom integrations, agent configurations, analytics, and workflows for customer missions.
- Debug agent behavior in live environments and rapidly implement fixes in code.
- Identify patterns across deployments and share product insights with the core engineering team.
What they ask for
- 3+ years of software engineering experience shipping production code.
- Full-stack generalist skills spanning areas such as backend services, data pipelines, agent configuration, and UI.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML systems to reason about agent behavior, diagnose failures, and implement fixes.
- Based in the DMV and willing to travel regularly to customer sites and stay for extended periods.
Nice to have
- Experience embedding at customer sites and writing production code; production experience with AI agent systems, LLM applications, or autonomous systems.
- Prior classified, intelligence-community, government, military, or law-enforcement work; active, recent, or eligibility for a U.S. security clearance (TS preferred).
Tools
AI/ML systems, AI agent systems, LLM applications
AI focus
Work with AI/ML and agent systems: configure agents, diagnose behavior and failures in operational environments, and write code to address them.
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