Senior Forward Deployed Engineer

Job overview

The Senior Forward Deployed Engineer role is onsite in Salt Lake City, UT, with an estimated salary range of $150,000–$180,000 annually. Tagup is a defense technology company delivering logistics decision support with artificial intelligence for U.S. and allied forces. The engineer leads customer engagements that integrate Tagup’s platform with government data systems, turning ambiguous outcomes into technical plans and delivered solutions. The role also supports customer adoption, production reliability, engineering quality, and product improvement through field feedback and mentorship.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end customer engagements integrating government data and systems
• translate ambiguous requirements into technical plans and deliver multi-week engagements
• build custom workflows to support customer adoption and usage
• debug production issues in customer environments, including government cloud
• document design decisions and review code
• make speed-versus-robustness trade-offs
• mentor engineers and bring field learnings to the product team.

What we're looking for

Skills & competencies

senior forward deployed engineer

salt lake city ut

tagup

full-time

defense technology

software engineering

python

typescript

sql

systems integration

government cloud

customer engagement

$150k–$180k annually

u.s. citizenship required

Work arrangement

• Weekend coverage required

Benefits & perks

• Employee stock option plan
• health insurance
• access to the company 401(k) plan
• regular company outings.

Why this role

Customer-facing engineering for defense logistics, with travel to military installations across the U.S.; applicants must be U.S. citizens and eligible to obtain a U.S. government security clearance.

About the employer

Tagup is hiring for this role. Industry: Computer Systems Design Services. Sector: 54.