Legion Intelligence

1 open Forward Deployed Engineer role at Legion Intelligence. Curated with comp bands.

Comp on the board: $160K–$200K.

On the board since Sep 2026 · still hiring

Our take

Why Legion Intelligence

The Palantir FDE playbook run by Palantir's own partners — cleared, embedded 80–100% in classified spaces, shipping 'app packs' on an agentic-AI platform.

FDE type: True forward-deployed
Travel: High
Comp: Competitive
Stage: Growth-stage

A good fit if you're…

Cleared engineers (TS/SCI) who want frontier agentic work in national security
People who accept that the deployment literally can't happen remotely
Builders drawn to the fastest-growing FDE frontier: cleared defense

What they do

Legion Intelligence is a DoD-born agentic-AI startup whose collaborators include Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, and Oracle. It builds an agentic AI platform for federal and national-security customers, on top of which FDEs ship custom workflows and 'app packs.'

What “forward deployed” means here

Explicitly 'not a traditional product or platform engineering role.' The Senior FDE sits embedded 80–100% of the week with federal customers in classified or constrained environments in the D.C. area, working directly with end users to design and build workflows on Legion's platform. The clearance gate — TS/SCI with SCI eligibility, US citizens only — is the whole model: the work can't be done from home.

Comp & leveling

The board shows $160K–$200K for the senior, D.C.-area seat. Competitive for cleared defense work, where the clearance itself is a durable premium; comp here should be read alongside the security-clearance market, not the SF startup market.

Growth signals

Born from a Department of Defense partnership and backed by an unusually heavy partner roster (Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, Oracle), Legion is riding the cleared-AI wave that is arguably growing faster than the commercial-lab FDE market. Early, but with strong institutional air cover.

Analysis updated 2026-09-07

Open roles at Legion Intelligence

Legion Intelligence

Senior Forward Deployed Engineer (D.C. Area)

new$160K–$200K

A DoD-born agentic-AI startup (partnered with Palantir, Nvidia, HPE, Oracle) hiring an FDE to sit inside classified spaces 80–100% of the week and ship 'app packs' on its platform — explicitly 'not a traditional product or platform engineering role.' It's the Palantir FDE playbook run by Palantir's own partners: TS/SCI + SCI eligibility, US citizens only, $160K–$200K. The tell is the clearance gate — the fastest-growing FDE frontier isn't the AI labs, it's cleared defense work where the deployment literally can't happen remotely.

Washington, D.C. area (on-site/embedded, 80–100%) — classified environmentsLegion Intelligencedefenseintelligence communityagentic AITS/SCI clearancePalantir partnerapp packsembedded

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