Forward Deployed Engineer

Aslan builds AI for the people who protect this country. The work matters. The stakes are not abstract.

You’ll deploy Aslan’s platform into high-consequence environments across the U.S. national security community — intelligence, defense, and law enforcement. You own the full arc: scoping, integration, live operation, and customer trust, in settings where ambiguity is the default and the margin for error is thin.

But you are not a band-aid. You are not patching things in the field and handing them back. You are a core engineer who also happens to thrive at the point of contact — someone who ships production code during the week and deploys it into a SCIF on Friday. The expectation is that you contribute meaningfully to the

codebase, not just operate on top of it.

What you'll do

- Contribute directly to Aslan’s core platform, writing production code, building features, and extending agent capabilities alongside the engineering team

- Deploy and operate agentic AI systems in sensitive government and defense environments, carrying full technical ownership from integration through live operation

- Serve as the primary technical interface to mission owners and operators, learning their workflows, constraints, and language before they have to explain them twice

- Build rapid prototypes, custom integrations, and field-expedient solutions in hours, not sprints and then bring the best of those back into the core product

- Translate field requirements and edge cases back to the engineering team with precision, urgency, and working code

- Operate independently at customer sites with minimal oversight -- no one is going to hold your hand and no one is going to tell you what to build

- Stand up and maintain field infrastructure across heterogeneous hardware and networking environments using whatever works

- Conduct live demonstrations to senior government and military stakeholders where failure is not a learning opportunity, it’s just failure