What are the responsibilities and job description for the Forward Deployed Engineer position at NxT Level?
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
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