Automating the intelligence and information operations workflow.

Own day-to-day delivery coordination with our AI/retrieval infrastructure partner, driving integration milestones from kickoff through go-live.

• Serve as the single point of contact for the partner's delivery team, including weekly status meetings with their PM counterpart
• Track integration milestones (kickoff, workflow optimization/benchmarking, technical assessment) and drive sign-off on deliverables
• Define and track Go/No-Go success criteria (accuracy, latency, semantic relevance)
• Bridge between the partner's technical team and our integration engineer
• Monitor infrastructure/timeline risk and escalate proactively
• Own the change request process
• Full ownership of this integration end to end from day one — a build-it-yourself mandate, not a maintain-an-existing-process role, with real room to grow scope as the company scales

• Must be a US Citizen; security clearance preferred
• Must be East Coast-based
• Experience managing technical vendor or partner integrations, ideally spanning both AI/ML and broader SaaS environments
• Fluent enough in APIs, RAG/retrieval architecture, and cloud deployment to spot technical problems immediately, not just relay them
• Understands how to speak the language of defense customers, while staying technical enough to hold your own in engineering syncs without a translator
• High degree of ownership — thrives with ambiguity and a small team, wants to build and own something from scratch
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves and doing the work directly today, with the ambition and capability to grow into a leader who builds and owns a team as we scale — we believe leadership is a choice to empower rather than hand-hold, and that ownership of a team's capability sits with the leader who builds it
• Strong plus: defense/gov contracting familiarity — SBIR process, DoD terminology, security clearance processes

Serve as the company's first dedicated technical hire, owning the architecture and delivery of critical third-party platform integrations that power our core product. Works in close partnership with the Technical Project Manager, though the two roles report separately given the size of the team.

• Architect and own the integration layer connecting our platform to key third-party data and AI infrastructure providers
• Lead technical evaluation and implementation planning for new platform integrations end to end
• Own migration of legacy data pipelines to modern, scalable infrastructure
• Manage the transition of internal workflow orchestration to more robust, production-grade systems as the company scales
• Serve as the primary technical counterpart to external vendor engineering teams
• Own technical validation and readiness assessments ahead of major releases
• Identify and resolve architectural risks before they become delivery blockers
• As the first technical FTE, help shape engineering practices and technical hiring as the team grows

• Must be a US Citizen; security clearance preferred
• Must be East Coast-based
• 5+ years engineering experience with real work integrating third-party APIs or RAG/retrieval systems
• Proficiency in Python
• Cloud infrastructure experience — Red Hat/OpenShift a plus, GovCloud/Azure GCC High a plus given the defense context
• Comfortable working directly with an external vendor's engineering team, not just internal peers
• High degree of ownership — first technical hire means building the function, not joining one
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves and doing the work directly today, with the ambition and capability to grow into a leader who builds and owns a team as we scale — we believe leadership is a choice to empower rather than hand-hold, and that ownership of a team's capability sits with the leader who builds it
• Strong plus: prior defense/intelligence tech experience

Own the product as a whole — UX, roadmap, and translating end-user needs into what gets built. First product hire; this role exists to close the gap between engineering execution and a coherent user experience as the company scales.

• Own UX and product design decisions end to end, from concept through shipped feature
• Define and prioritize the product roadmap in partnership with the CEO
• Translate defense/intelligence customer needs into clear product requirements engineering can build against
• Partner closely with the Integration Engineer and Technical Project Manager to ensure technical delivery serves a coherent user experience, not just functional integration
• Run user research and feedback loops with customers to validate direction
• Establish lightweight product processes (specs, prioritization, release criteria) appropriate for an early-stage team — build the function, not inherit one

• Must be a US Citizen; security clearance preferred
• Must be East Coast-based
• 4+ years in a product management or product design leadership role, ideally at an early-stage startup where you owned product end to end
• Strong UX instincts and comfort making design decisions directly, not just managing designers
• High degree of ownership — thrives with ambiguity and ability to build product function from scratch
• Comfortable rolling up your sleeves and doing the work directly today, with the ambition and capability to grow into a leader who builds and owns a team as we scale — we believe leadership is a choice to empower rather than hand-hold, and that ownership of a team's capability sits with the leader who builds it
• Comfortable working in a small, technical team and translating between engineering and non-technical/defense-domain end users
• Strong plus: experience with defense, intelligence, or government customers
• Strong plus: prior experience in an AI/ML product context