Cape
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
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Cape
Cape builds privacy-focused mobile network infrastructure and telecommunications systems designed to protect user communications across devices and networks. The company is hiring software engineers, security engineers, forward-deployed engineers embedded with federal customers, web developers, and technical specialists to develop secure infrastructure, drive product improvements based on field needs, and ensure reliable deployment of privacy-centric mobile solutions.
View all jobs at CapeLikely interview questions
- Walk us through a time you deployed a technical solution into a customer environment that didn't go as planned. How did you diagnose the issue and what did you learn?
- Describe your experience translating ambiguous or poorly-defined customer requirements into concrete engineering work. How do you know when you've understood the real problem?