Defense Unicorns

AI Engineer

• Embed with strategic customers as a technical partner, working from problem discovery to solution implementation and customer adoption.
• Architect, build, deploy, and operate agentic Generative AI systems: APIs, data processing ETL pipelines, integration layers, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and context engineering.
• Work in cloud, on-prem, and edge/air-gapped environments to ensure software can run where the mission demands.
• Prototype and deploy systems leveraging the core products and design patterns of the Unicorn Delivery Service (UDS); bring back insights from the field for continuous product improvement.
• Scope, sequence, and lead delivery of solutions: define living roadmaps, set priorities, trade off speed vs quality vs scope, work across internal teams and customer stakeholders to drive clarity and remove blockers early.
• Codify reusable patterns for mission environments: build tools, internal frameworks, playbooks so future deployments are faster, safer, and repeatable.
• Act as the technical face to customer leadership: communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, build trust, manage expectations, and ensure successful scale and mission adoption. This is a customer-facing role.
• Ability and interest to travel up to 25%, as needed to client sites, but flexible based on personal preferences.

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Product Designer

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to conceptualize and execute high-fidelity prototypes, translating concepts into user-friendly designs that align with our brand and business objectives.
• Conduct comprehensive UX research and testing methodologies to gather user feedback, identify pain points, and iterate on design solutions for optimal user satisfaction.
• Help define early product concepts, flesh out the high-level workflow and micro-interactions of a feature, and execute on an effective visual design.
• Utilize data analysis techniques to interpret user behavior patterns, extracting actionable insights to inform design decisions and enhance product functionalities.
• Cultivate empathy for end-users across product teams & stakeholders by creating and maintaining user personas.
• Create, collaborate, and iterate on user flows, site maps, user journeys, and other design artifacts.
• Plan iterative design improvements that are delivered to production regularly.
• Ensure high-quality user experience and integrate user feedback into product design.
• Design initial prototypes and wireframes for new applications.
• Work closely with other product teams and designers to ensure cross-product integration.
• Own the end-to-end design process of assigned features/products.
• Map out user experience flows to identify new product needs.

Manager

• Collaborates with Domain Tech Lead to establish technical roadmap for Mission Outcomes with Mission Heroes (customers)
• Aligns Defense Unicorns’ Product Roadmaps to technical roadmap and provides feedback on Mission Need dates for features to drive adoption
• Share and facilitate feedback from Delivery segment with Product segment regarding Defense Unicorns’ OSS projects and productized services
• Work with Tech Leads to establish an aligned Delivery roadmap, using Product roadmaps
• Follow company best practices in strategies for building Delivery solutions and balance priorities from users, customers, stakeholders, and the team to deliver mission value in a scalable way
• Foster an environment for Unicorn growth, mentorship, and coaching within the team
• Foster an environment for Defense Unicorns values and principles to thrive
• Travel to customer or team locations 4-12 times per year

Mission Manager

Infrastructure Engineer

• Work in a small, dedicated team architecting US Navy enterprise systems
• Conceptualize, architect, prototype, and test Kubernetes on bare metal infrastructure
• Collaborate with other teams to integrate applications with Defense Unicorns’ software delivery platform
• Help build pipelines that automate testing, building, packaging, and deploying platform components
• Leverage Infrastructure-as-Code to create standardized, reusable modules that automate provisioning across diverse hypervisors and cloud platforms
• Provide grounded time and effort estimates for tasks and assist in project planning and resource allocation
• Validate solutions/implementations to ensure alignment with tasks and business requirements
• Rapidly understand customer mission requirements, conceptualize and prototype solutions, and rapidly iterate to deliver impact
• Author and maintain technical design documents, ADRs, and test plans

Forward Deployed AI Engineer

Product Designer

Mission Manager

Infrastructure Engineer, Bare Metal Kubernetes