Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE)

Location: Oahu Hawaii

Role Overview

Kamiwaza AI is seeking a Mission Delivery Engineer (MDE) to serve as a forward-deployed, hands-on technical leader for U.S. federal customers. You will own the technical journey from pre-sales discovery and proof-of-value (PoV) demos of custom applications on the Kamiwaza platform through production implementation and successful hand-off to the customer or an integration partner.

This role is built for a builder who is also consultative and delivery-minded: you can run discovery, quantify value, tell a compelling technical story, write real code, and then harden what you built so it can operate reliably in mission environments (including constrained, disconnected, or air-gapped deployments).

This is not a pure presentation role and not a back-office engineering role. It is an end-to-end mission delivery role that combines pre-sales technical execution with post-sale implementation, operationalization, enablement, and structured handover.

Core Mission

Accelerate federal adoption of Kamiwaza by translating high-value mission use cases into credible PoVs and demo experiences, and then converting the successful PoVs into production-ready deployments and repeatable delivery patterns that reduce risk, increase win rate, and improve time-to-mission impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Mission Discovery, Scoping & Success Planning: Lead technical discovery with DoD/IC and federal customers: mission workflows, data sources, operating constraints (including DDIL), stakeholders, and success criteria.
• Pre-Sales PoV, Demos, Workshops & Rapid Prototyping: Design and deliver tailored demos, whiteboard sessions, and hands-on workshops for executive and practitioner audiences.
• Production Implementation & Delivery Engineering: Convert successful PoVs into production implementations: harden code, modularize components, introduce testing, and align with customer engineering standards.
• Security, Compliance & Deployment Readiness: Operate with a security-first mindset: data containment, least privilege, auditability, and safe handling of sensitive customer information.
• Handoff, Enablement & Partner Collaboration: Deliver clear hand-off packages to customers or partners: architecture diagrams, deployment guides, runbooks, IaC/configuration artifacts, and code repositories as appropriate.
• Technical Deal Support & Field-to-Product Feedback: Partner with Sales and Capture to shape technical win strategies, address customer objections, and support bid/no-bid decisions with clear delivery and technical risk assessment.

Minimum Requirements

• Federal Customer-Facing & Delivery Experience: 6+ years in customer-facing technical roles supporting U.S. federal customers.
• Hands-On Technical Depth: Strong software engineering skills with the ability to build and harden applications rapidly (Python strongly preferred).
• Consultative Communication, Ownership & Leadership: Ability to translate technical capabilities into mission impact and customer value.
• Security & Travel: U.S. citizenship required. Active TS/SCI clearance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DoD/IC deployments in classified, air-gapped, or DDIL environments.
• Experience delivering production implementations with clear operational ownership.

Why Join Us?

Purpose & Impact: Be a key contributor to the GenAI revolution, shaping how enterprises adopt next-generation technology.

How to Apply

Ready to build the foundation of the GenAI revolution? Please include a short write-up of a customer problem you solved end-to-end and a link to any reusable asset or press release that came out of it.