Forward Deployed Engineer, U.S. Government

Micro1
Micro1
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RemotePosted Oct 11, 2026

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🇺🇸 US

$150,000 – $250,000 /yr

Compensation

Full-Time

Employment

Senior Level

Experience

Oct 11, 2026

Posted

About this opportunity

About Micro1: Micro1 is a San Francisco-based AI data and talent company focused on providing high-quality human expertise and real-world data for training and evaluating advanced AI models. The company originally focused heavily on AI-powered recruitment, using its technology to identify, interview, vet, and match technical professionals with companies. It has since expanded substantially into AI training data, model evaluation, reinforcement learning (RL), AI-agent evaluation, and robotics data. Its current positioning is essentially: humans provide the expertise and feedback that helps frontier AI systems become better at reasoning, performing tasks, and operating in the real world. The Role: We're hiring an MTS to work on applied AI systems across research and production. This role spans model experimentation, infrastructure, and deployment in high-assurance, mission-critical environments, including forward-deployed work with strategic partners to ensure mission success.

Key responsibilities

  • What You'll Work On:
  • Build and deploy agentic AI systems that support high-impact U.S. Government missions from prototype to production.
  • Design and integrate LLM applications, including multi-agent systems, tool-using agents, RAG workflows, and human-in-the-loop autonomy.
  • Work directly with government partners in forward-deployed environments to translate mission needs into technical systems.
  • Build and maintain large-scale data curation and evaluation pipelines for model training and improvement.
  • Develop infrastructure for model inference, experimentation, evaluation, and deployment across frontier AI platforms.
  • Build AI systems that turn mission data, models, and tools into real operational autonomy.
  • Own systems across the full lifecycle, including discovery, architecture, implementation, deployment, reliability, security, and iteration.

Benefits & perks

  • Compensation & Benefits Notice:
  • The national pay range for this full-time position is a base salary of $150,000 – $250,000.
  • All employees are eligible for equity compensation.
  • Employees may also receive performance-based bonuses, dependent on role and subject to company policies.
  • Micro1 provides a comprehensive benefits package, including up to 100% reimbursement for health-insurance premiums, paid time off, a 401(K) plan with a company match, and additional benefits designed to support a high-performing, remote-first workforce.
  • Offer Details:
  • Job Type: Full-time.
  • Location: Remote (requires relocating to DC area).
  • Referral Bonus: N/A.
  • Hiring Process:
  • Our hiring process utilizes artificial intelligence tools to assist in candidate screening and assessment. Our AI tools are designed to complement, not replace, human decision-making.

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