Lead AI Forward Deployed Engineer (req-265)

Team CATHEXIS elevates the government contracting experience through rapid response, deep skill, and thoughtful problem-solving and communication. Our core capabilities are our top-tier program and project management, data analytics, and audit services, the backbone of which is our integrated approach to operational excellence.

You worked hard to get to where you are. You strive to make every day better than the day before. So do we. Team CATHEXIS operates with an all-in mindset. We are working together to create a company that supports our shared values and individual goals. Our values are centered around leading with integrity, owning the outcome, growing together, and moving with purpose in everything we do for our employees, customers, partners, and communities. We believe success is best when we listen and lead with empathy; model high standards of ethics to provide a rewarding candidate experience; work hard, have fun, and appreciate the strengths we all bring to the team; and empower our employees to create innovative and trusted results.

We are looking for a dynamic Lead AI Forward Deployed Engineer to join our team! The Lead AI Forward Deployed Engineer will work directly with project teams and oversee the overall delivery and performance over the SDLC for the project. The Project team may consist of data scientists, software engineers, and subject matter experts in the definition of new analytics capabilities able to provide our federal customers with the information they need to make proper decisions and enable their digital transformation.

Responsibilities

Project Management:

Serve as primary client-facing POC for program status, escalations, and strategic delivery decisions; build durable relationships at all levels.

Thrive in an autonomous, empowering, and exciting environment.

Champion delivery excellence — drive retrospectives, continuous improvement, and lessons-learned practices across the delivery team.

Stakeholder Communication, run customer working sessions, brief executive sponsors, and write clean status updates for senior stakeholders.

Lead training and implementation events with the customer teams.

Identify expansion opportunities within the account—surfacing new use cases, supporting renewal conversations, and ensuring successful deployments convert to long-term customer relationships.

Mentor junior team members and serve as a culture carrier for disciplined, mission-focused delivery.

Technical Tasks:

Own data flow, integration topology, identity model, and deployment architecture across the customer’s infrastructure

Push field learnings into the core platform so the next deployment is faster.

Ensure the platform is configured, secured, and monitored to meet enterprise security and compliance requirements (SOC 2, ISO 27001, data residency, etc.).

Write production code yourself—backend services, data pipelines, APIs, integrations.

Deploy from dev through UAT into production—including integration with customer data warehouses, ERP/CRM systems, and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).