About the Role:

As a Forward Deployed Engineer at Primer, you’ll leverage your engineering skills along with our AI technology to help national security organizations solve some of their toughest challenges.  

Role Responsibilities - How You Will Make An Impact

• Work directly with national security customers who are leveraging Primer’s products to understand their use cases, scope technical requirements for enhancements, design and implement successful solutions
• Dig into software source code to customize, integrate, and troubleshoot customer facing product deployments
• Train, deploy, and tune machine learning models on customer data sets
• Partner with our product management and engineering teams to identify and prioritize feature development based on customer feedback

Relevant Skills & Experiences:

• Active security clearance required
• Must be located in the DC metro area
• Professional experience developing Python applications - our solutions are built using Python
• Linux proficiency - you’ll need to know your way around a Linux shell in order to run our software
• Experience with Python DevOps workflows - you’ll help design and implement a delivery approach for our code 
• Hands-on experience with a cloud services provider
• Strong communication skills - you’ll be part of a team working directly with Primer customers

Bonus Points:

• Direct experience with the isolated C2S region of AWS
• Familiarity with machine learning techniques
• Experience with natural language processing (NLP)
• Experience with the Flask framework
• Experience with data ingestion and processing systems at scale
• Front-end development experience (React)

Any offer of employment is conditioned on an applicant or employee being able to meet any applicable government contract requirements.  Applicants will be asked if they are legally authorized to work in the United States and if they now or in the future will require employment visa sponsorship.  If an employment offer is made, applicants will be asked to provide information and attestations to a contract compliance officer to ensure the company is in compliance with applicable government contract requirements. The company may rescind any offer of employment to an applicant or terminate an employee if the applicant or employee is unable to perform the functions of the position in compliance with applicable government contract or if an applicant or employee makes a false attestation of compliance.

The annual cash compensation range for this position is US$187,000 to US$268,000.  Final compensation will be determined based on experience and skills and may vary from the range listed above.