Senior Forward Deployed Engineer.

Software Engineering & Dev Full-Time

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The Role:This role is for a senior software engineer focused on customer-facing integrations for defense logistics technology.
The Person:The person will lead customer engagements end to end, design and build integrations with government data systems, debug production issues in customer environments, document design decisions, review code, and mentor engineers.
Requirements:The ideal candidate has 5+ years of professional software engineering experience, depth in Python and/or TypeScript and SQL, data integration against messy sources, and system design under constraint.

About the role

Tagup is a defense technology company founded at MIT that is delivering logistics decision advantage with next-generation AI. We’re growing rapidly and are looking for change-makers passionate about delivering innovative technologies to solve the most challenging problems in the world’s highest stakes environments. This is an exciting opportunity to engage in meaningful work that strengthens national security and contributes to the success of U.S. and allied forces. Join us in shaping the future of defense logistics for a safer tomorrow.

Senior Forward Deployed Engineers lead customer engagements, including our most important ones. You’ll be handed an outcome rather than a specification: a program that needs our platform integrated with government data systems under real constraints. You produce the plan, make the design decisions, build it, and ship it.

You’ll work directly with customer technical staff, debug production issues in their environments, and make the speed-versus-robustness trade-offs that defense delivery demands. You’ll also raise the team around you, reviewing code, mentoring engineers, and setting the standard for how the team builds with customers.

Salary

The estimated salary range for this position is between $150,000 and $180,000 annually. We strive to provide a competitive salary and benefits package that aligns with our employees’ experience and qualifications. Our primary objective is to attract and retain top talent, and we firmly believe in compensating our employees fairly for their invaluable contributions.

As a rapidly expanding technology company, we extend part-ownership to all team members through an Employee Stock Option Plan. Additionally, we offer comprehensive health insurance benefits, access to the company’s 401K plan, and foster a team-oriented work environment with regular company outings!

Why Join Us

The mission is real. Our software runs in front of people whose job is to keep the fleet moving — the consequences of getting it right are tangible.
Small team, high leverage. You'll have visibility from the engineering trenches to the executive team, and your work will compound.
Hard problems worth solving. Reinforcement learning applied to logistics at the scale of a military service is genuinely novel work.
Competitive comp, meaningful equity, and the kind of professional growth that comes from being trusted with big things early.

Tagup is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment with us are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Citizenship: Due to the nature of our work with the U.S. Department of Defense, applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor visas at this time.

Published September 15, 2026

Location Virginia, United Kingdom

Category Software Engineering & Dev

Job Type Full-Time

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