Hiring: Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal Company: Cape Location: Arlington, VA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-10 13:43:00 Target Skills & Keywords : Security Clearance About the job Experience: •2+ years of experience in a software engineering or forward deployed engineering role •Demonstrated technical competency across multiple domains—a “Swiss army knife” profile who can credibly code, debug networking issues, reason about systems-level tradeoffs, and learn quickly •Strong ability to scope ambiguous problems, sequence delivery, and make sound prioritization calls without explicit instruction •Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief a flag officer, write a clear engineering ticket, and run a customer working session with equal fluency •High ownership and resourcefulness—comfort with the parts of the job that aren’t glamorous, and a track record of doing whatever needs to be done to deliver Required Skills: •FDE is a small, high-trust team. We're building this together. You will not be handed a playbook, you'll help write it. •Own the technical delivery of Cape’s products into federal and national security customer environments—from first prototype through operational acceptance and sustainment •Embed with customer teams around the world to understand workflows, threat models, and constraints that don’t appear in any requirements document •Configure, integrate, and tune Cape’s mobile core capabilities against the specific mission profile of each deployment •Lead customer exercises, pilots, and demonstrations; structure them to produce decision-quality evidence rather than theater •Provide direct technical support during live operations and incidents; conduct root-cause analyses and drive preventive fixes back into the platform •Write production-grade code to build the glue, integrations, tooling, and one-off capabilities that unblock customer deployments •Prototype new product features in the field, validate them against real mission use, and work with core engineering teams to expand on successful hypotheses Qualifications: •Prior military service, government civilian experience, or time in roles involving communications, signals, cyber, or intelligence •Background in mobile networks, telecom, networking infrastructure, or cybersecurity •Track record of taking field-driven feature work into a core product roadmap •U.S. citizenship and eligibility for a U.S. Top Secret security clearance (active TS strongly preferred) Compensation: •$175,000 - $235,000 / year •We offer competitive compensation that is geo-adjusted based on your location, along with meaningful equity so you share in the value you help create Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!