Forward Deployed Engineer, Federal

About this role

Cape seeks a Forward Deployed Engineer to embed with federal customers and ensure privacy-focused mobile network products work effectively in real-world environments. You'll bridge customer needs and engineering, deploy solutions, prototype integrations, and drive product roadmap priorities based on field intelligence.

What you'll do

• Own end-to-end technical delivery of Cape's products into federal customer environments from prototype through operational acceptance
• Embed with customer teams to understand workflows, threat models, and operational constraints
• Configure, integrate, and tune mobile core capabilities for specific mission profiles
• Write production-grade code for integrations, tooling, and capabilities that unblock deployments
• Translate customer mission requirements into engineering priorities and communicate technical constraints back to stakeholders
• Provide technical support during live operations, conduct root-cause analyses, and feed insights back into platform development

What they're looking for

• Software development and production-grade coding
• Mobile network architecture and telecommunications knowledge
• Systems integration and prototyping
• Technical troubleshooting and incident response
• Requirements translation and stakeholder communication
• Customer-facing technical delivery and support
• Problem-solving in ambiguous environments
• Networking and telecom protocols