Forward Deployed Engineer

Location: McLean, Virginia

Exiger is transforming how governments and global enterprises manage supply chain, defense, and geopolitical risk. Our AI-powered platform equips the world’s most important institutions with the intelligence they need to protect critical infrastructure, secure national interests, and make data-driven operational decisions.

From identifying counterfeit parts in defense supply chains to anticipating geopolitical risk exposure, Exiger enables mission owners to act with clarity and confidence in complex, high-stakes environments.

Forward Deployed AI Engineers work directly with government and defense customers to understand their most complex operational challenges and design and implement AI-driven solutions to solve them.

Our customers rely on Exiger’s platform to support mission-critical operations — often beginning with open-ended questions such as:

“Where are vulnerabilities hidden in our supply chain?”
“How can we proactively detect and mitigate risk before it impacts readiness?”
“How do we modernize fragmented legacy systems into a unified intelligence capability?”

As a Forward Deployed AI Engineer, you will combine engineering depth, AI/ML expertise, and mission understanding to deliver scalable, production-grade solutions that drive measurable real-world impact.

You will operate at the intersection of engineering, data science, and mission delivery — embedded alongside customer stakeholders and internal teams. Working in small, high-trust teams, you will own projects end-to-end — from architecture and data ingestion through model deployment, integration, and executive-level briefings.

You will not just build models — you will ensure they function reliably in production, under real-world operational constraints.

Key Responsibilities

Design, implement, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingesting, cleansing, and transforming supply chain and risk-related datasets.
Apply AI/ML methods to enhance predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and risk identification within SCRM workflows.
Integrate AI-driven analytics into Exiger’s SaaS platform through APIs, data services, and system interfaces.
Partner with program directors, data scientists, and software engineers to operationalize models into production systems.
Cleanse and enrich customer provided data.
Develop and maintain dashboards, data visualizations, and reporting solutions to enable decision-making by senior government stakeholders.
Ensure quality, integrity, and security of data across all program implementations.
Support delivery of transformation projects by modernizing customer data environments and enabling advanced risk analytics.
Contribute to agile delivery cycles, from design and testing through deployment.
Periodically provide updates on data pipelines, AI performance metrics, and customer value realization.

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Data Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or related technical field.
5+ years of experience in data engineering, applied AI/ML, or scalable system integration
Demonstrated experience operationalizing AI models beyond experimentation
Ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance
Deep proficiency in Python and SQL, with experience designing scalable data architectures
Experience building and deploying AI/ML systems in production environments
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Snowflake, Redshift) and secure system integration
Ability to translate ambiguous mission problems into structured technical solutions
Comfort working directly with senior government stakeholders
Strong systems thinking across data pipelines, APIs, models, and visualization layers
Ability to operate independently in dynamic, high-stakes environments
Willingness to travel as needed to support customer engagements

We’re an amazing place to work. Why?

Discretionary Time Off for all employees, with no maximum limits on time off
Industry leading health, vision, and dental benefits
Competitive compensation package
16 weeks of fully paid parental leave
Flexible, hybrid approach to working from home and in the office where applicable
Focus on wellness and employee health through stipends and dedicated wellness programming
Purposeful career development programs with reimbursement provided for educational certifications

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Exiger is revolutionizing the way corporations, government agencies and banks manage risk and compliance with a combination of technology-enabled and SaaS solutions. In recognition of the growing volume and complexity of data and regulation, Exiger is committed to creating a more sustainable risk and compliance environment through its holistic and innovative approach to problem solving. Exiger's mission to make the world a safer place to do business drives its award-winning AI technology platform, DDIQ, built to anticipate the market's most pressing needs related to evolving ESG, cyber, financial crime, third-party and supply chain risk. Exiger has won 30+ AI, RegTech and Supply Chain partner awards.

Exiger’s core values are courage, excellence, expertise, innovation, integrity, teamwork and trust.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.

Exiger’s hybrid work policy is periodically reviewed and adjusted to align with evolving business needs.

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