Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect

We are standing up forward deployed engineering for our U.S. Federal business. This is a new, senior, high-visibility position - the first of its kind on our U.S. team - created to support a major federal civilian customer as our vetting and open-source investigative capabilities scale for National Security mission sets.

This role is not a help desk function nor a back-office integration job. This position requires someone who understands government customers, can hold a technical conversation with engineers and a mission conversation with analysts, and can operate independently inside a customer environment while representing Maltego with credibility.

This position is intentionally designed as a hybrid technical leadership role that bridges customer mission success, product evolution, and deployment execution. The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer / Senior Solutions Architect serves as the primary technical interface between Maltego Federal, government stakeholders, and internal engineering teams, requiring a balanced focus across customer engagement, solution delivery, and strategic growth activities.

In short, you are the bridge between a sophisticated government mission set and our engineering organization, and you will own the technical relationship as the account expands across the enterprise.

As Maltego Federal's first Forward Deployed Engineer, you will serve as the primary technical representative within a strategic federal customer environment, ensuring mission requirements are successfully translated into deployed, operational capabilities.

Your responsibilities will include:

Customer Technical Leadership

• Serve as the embedded technical lead and trusted advisor to government analysts, program managers, and technical stakeholders.
• Lead requirements discovery sessions, workflow design workshops, and operational reviews.
• Guide analyst adoption and ensure mission outcomes are achieved through effective platform utilization.
• Translate customer requirements into actionable engineering, product, and deployment priorities.
• Establish and maintain trusted technical relationships across customer organizations.

Integration and Solution Development

• Design and implement end-to-end integration architectures connecting Maltego into customer systems, enclaves, and third-party technologies.
• Develop and guide custom transforms, automations, and integrations.
• Support data-source onboarding, identity resolution workflows, and automated discovery processes.
• Deliver scalable technical solutions that extend platform capabilities within customer environments.

Deployment, Security, and Accreditation Support

• Support deployment activities across SaaS, government-hosted, and classified environments.
• Contribute technical artifacts and documentation supporting ATO and accreditation efforts.
• Validate solution performance, security controls, and operational readiness.
• Support pilot deployments, initial operating capability, and enterprise rollout activities.

Product Feedback and Operational Optimization

• Evaluate AI classifier performance, detection accuracy, precision/recall trade-offs, and analyst review workflows.
• Measure operational outcomes and identify opportunities to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
• Convert customer feedback into prioritized, evidence-based requirements for engineering and product teams.
• Act as a conduit between customer users, product management, and engineering.

Federal Growth and Practice Development

• Support technical solutioning, demonstrations, and responses to government requirements.

• Identify opportunities for account expansion and increased mission impact.

• Contribute to the development of forward-deployed engineering methodologies, playbooks, and best practices.

• Help establish the foundation for a scalable Federal Forward Deployed Engineering organization as the business grows.

• Active U.S. Government security clearance at the Secret level or above, currently in scope. TS/SCI preferred.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical discipline; equivalent experience considered.

• 5+ years in solutions architecture, forward-deployed engineering, technical consulting, field systems engineering, or systems integration with a substantial portion supporting U.S. Government customers.

• Demonstrated experience as the technical face of a product or program inside a government customer site, including direct interaction with end users, program managers, and CIO/technical authorities.

• Strong Python development skills and practical API integration experience.

• Working knowledge of cloud hosting (AWS preferred), virtualization, containerization, and distributed systems.

• Understanding of secure system architecture, information assurance concepts, and deployment into regulated or accredited environments.

• Ability to run a technical workstream end-to-end - scoping, delivery, testing, deployment, and handover - with minimal supervision.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to translate between mission language and engineering language in both directions.

• Willingness to travel up to 40%, including to overseas posts.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior service with or direct support to the U.S. Department of State, particularly the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the Bureau of Consular Affairs, or the CIO/Diplomatic Technology organization.
• Familiarity with the Authority to Operate (ATO) process, RMF, FedRAMP, or equivalent accreditation pathways.
• Background in OSINT, SOCMINT, identity resolution, vetting, screening, or adjudication workflows.
• Experience with data acquisition strategy — evaluating and onboarding commercial and open data sources against cost, coverage, and mission fit.
• Exposure to machine learning classifier evaluation in an operational setting (precision/recall tuning, false positive management under limited PII).
• Experience as a Field Service Representative or equivalent embedded technical role.
• Familiarity with the Maltego platform or comparable link analysis and investigative tooling.

Equal Opportunity: Maltego Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all qualified individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a background investigation and verification of clearance eligibility.

What we offer: A first-in-seat role with real scope: you will shape how forward deployed engineering works at Maltego in the U.S., not inherit someone else's playbook.

• Direct access to leadership and to the engineering and product teams building the capability you deploy.
• Work that visibly matters, on programs with national security significance.
• Competitive base salary, comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), and paid time off.
• A motivated, international team and the pace of a growing technology company.

Washington, DC metro area: Hybrid with onsite at customer facilities

Please submit a resume outlining your relevant federal program experience and clearance status, along with a brief statement of interest.