[Hiring] Senior/Staff Forward Deployed Engineer @webAI

Role Description

We are looking for Senior Engineers to drive webAI Public Sector initiatives focused on secure, resilient, and distributed data systems operating at the tactical edge. In our world, network connectivity isn't guaranteed. Systems must thrive in Denied, Degraded, Intermittent, and Limited (DDIL) bandwidth environments. We are less concerned with formal peer-to-peer or blockchain dogmas and far more focused on practical, robust edge synchronization.

• Architect software running across a hybrid footprint of edge nodes, mobile endpoints, and cloud sync services.

Responsibilities

• Architect Resilient Transport & Sync Layers:
  • Design and implement store-and-forward transport and data-synchronization protocols tailored for low-bandwidth, high-latency, and DDIL field conditions.
• Ad-Hoc Networking & Discovery:
  • Implement local peer discovery and async I/O transports operating over heterogeneous physical links, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/BLE, and ad-hoc mesh networks.
• Field Ready Systems Engineering:
  • Apply delay tolerant networking (DTN) principles and local conflict-free data synchronization (e.g., CRDTs and content-addressable storage) to ensure mission-critical applications function offline indefinitely.
• Hybrid Edge & Mobile Integration:
  • Develop and maintain software components spanning hybrid architectures bridging field edge devices, mobile environments, and upstream cloud services.
• Performance & Resource Optimization:
  • Lead tuning, memory management, and debugging for resource-constrained hardware operating in rugged, disconnected field deployments.
• Security & Cryptographic Primitives:
  • Understand and implement various authorization and authentication security patterns, suitable for DDIL and contested environments.
• Cross Functional Collaboration:
  • Partner with hardware, mobile, and backend teams to validate end-to-end functionality under simulated and live field constraints.

Qualifications

• 5-7+ years of software engineering experience building robust systems software or distributed networking services.
• Strong proficiency in Rust or other systems level languages (Go, C, or C++).
• Demonstrated experience with store-and-forward architectures, delay-tolerant networks (DTN), async I/O, or local device-to-device transport layers (e.g., BLE, TCP/IP, socket-level async networking).
• Practical experience solving synchronization challenges under intermittent, contested, or low-throughput network constraints (DDIL).

Nice-to-Haves / Pluses

• Experience with Android development (NDK, Kotlin, KMP, CMP, background sync services, or Bluetooth/Wi-Fi Direct stacks).
• Familiarity with hybrid mobile/cloud application architecture and state reconciliation.
• Hands-on experience testing and evaluating wireless networking hardware and software in physical field or operational testing environments (outside of traditional lab/SCIF environments).
• Background in content-addressable data structures, Merkle DAGs, or CRDTs.
• Expertise in embedded hardware or robotics orchestration.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based incentives.
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package.
• Including a high-deductible HSA option with $200/month company contribution.
• 401k match (US-based only).
• Equity options.
• Flexible PTO Policy.
• Parental leave for eligible employees.
• Continuing education support.
• Basic, company-paid life insurance.
• Supplemental life insurance.
• Company-paid short and long term disability.
• Free parking for in-office employees.