Role description
IVIXWe are looking for a Forward Deployed Engineer to join the IVIX Delivery team.
In this hands-on, customer-facing role, you will work directly with government agencies to understand their challenges, identify relevant data sources, and build solutions that turn complex data into actionable findings. You will combine engineering, analytical thinking, and a deep understanding of customer needs to solve real-world problems and deliver measurable results.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on experience building production data systems, backend services, or applied analytics over large-scale, real-world data.
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL.
- Experience acquiring, processing, and integrating data from external and imperfect sources, including web data at scale.
- Experience designing and building data pipelines, backend services, and data-driven solutions.
- Proven experience working directly with customers, including leading technical discussions, understanding business challenges, and translating requirements into technical solutions.
- Experience delivering technical solutions into customer or production environments, including environments handling sensitive or regulated data.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently in ambiguous and complex environments.
- Experience with modern AI tooling, including AI-assisted development and LLM-based applications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Willingness and ability to travel to customer sites as required.
- BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field - an advantage.
Our Stack
We work mostly in Python and SQL over cloud data warehouses, with Node/TypeScript on the product side, Kubernetes for collection and deployment, graph and search databases for entity and investigation work, and LLMs throughout.
You do not need to know all of it on day one; you need to be able to pick up whatever the problem requires.