Forward Deployed Engineer Jobs in Washington, D.C.

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.

AWS is no longer piloting FDEs — it has stood up a named 'AWS Forward Deployed Engineering' org deep enough to post IC, Senior, Manager and Senior-Manager reqs, plus a dedicated US-Government vertical gated behind TS/SCI-with-poly. When the largest cloud vendor builds a management layer for Forward Deployed Engineers, the function has crossed from experiment to permanent org chart.

Mid/Senior FDE on Databricks' public sector deployment team in Maryland; Virginia; Washington, DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Public-sector FDE work is the federal/gov land-grab — Databricks is carving out a dedicated, often clearance-gated track alongside AWS, Scale, and Cognition.

Senior FDE on Databricks' national security deployment team in Boston, Massachusetts; Delaware; Maryland; remote in California; remote in New York; remote in Washington DC; Virginia; West Virginia at a transparent $182K–$250K. A clearance-track national-security FDE seat — the highest-margin, least salary-transparent corner of deployment work, and Databricks is now openly staffing it.

A rare cleared FDE seat that isn't at Palantir — you build on top of Foundry, AIP and Maven Smart System as the prime's integration muscle, inside classification constraints, not around them. The TS/SCI + US-citizenship gate is exactly why base opens at $220K–$280K: the clearance is scarcer than the React/Node stack. NEA/a16z/Accel-backed govtech ($35M raised) now claiming 55M residents across 50+ agencies and pushing hard into federal.

Rare FDE seat where the deployment site is a military installation and the product is a mobile carrier's own network core — Cape (privacy-first carrier, Series C closed March 2026) wants an FDE to embed with federal customers, write production glue against live cellular infrastructure, and turn pilots into programs of record. The $175K–$235K band is honest for a role that also demands a TS clearance and a flag-officer-to-git-ticket communication range; it's Anduril/Palantir deployment work without the household name.

Senior FDE on Databricks' deployment team in Remote - Washington DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Part of the largest forward-deployed engineering org outside Palantir — Databricks now runs FDE across dozens of geos and verticals simultaneously.

Senior FDE on Databricks' public sector deployment team remote in Virginia; Remote - Washington DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Public-sector FDE work is the federal/gov land-grab — Databricks is carving out a dedicated, often clearance-gated track alongside AWS, Scale, and Cognition.

Senior FDE on Databricks' public sector deployment team in Delaware; Maryland; remote in Pennsylvania; remote in Virginia; remote in Washington DC; West Virginia at a transparent $182K–$250K. Public-sector FDE work is the federal/gov land-grab — Databricks is carving out a dedicated, often clearance-gated track alongside AWS, Scale, and Cognition.

A ground-station startup rebuilding earth-to-space connectivity puts the FDE title on classified mission work — $200K employer-provided in DC, 7+ years of mission-ops and capture-engineering experience. Proof the deployment role has reached space and national-security infrastructure, not just SaaS.

Senior FDE on Databricks' financial services deployment team in Washington, DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Financial-services FDE work is where Databricks' lakehouse plus governance story sells hardest — regulated data, high scrutiny, big budgets.

Senior FDE on Databricks' media deployment team in Washington, DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Databricks is one of the only shops staffing dedicated FDEs against media, entertainment & gaming accounts — data-heavy customers with real GenAI appetite.

Senior FDE on Databricks' public sector deployment team in Washington, DC at a transparent $182K–$250K. Public-sector FDE work is the federal/gov land-grab — Databricks is carving out a dedicated, often clearance-gated track alongside AWS, Scale, and Cognition.