C3 AI
Enterprise AI
ForwardDeployedTeamLead
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“Forward Deployed Team Lead at C3 AI. Skills: Enterprise AI, Technical architecture, Federal customer, DevOps. Own data flow. Own integration topology”
What You'll Achieve.
Take product from design to production; Deploy into mission environments; Get authorization
Industry & Context.
Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting; Debugging
US Citizenship, Security clearance
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
US Citizenship, Drive ATO / cATO, Own the SSPs, Work hands-on inside SIPR/JWICS, Land workloads on Advana, Deploy across IL2 → IL5 → IL6, Work hands-on inside air-gapped networks
Nice to Have
Active Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance, Active TS/SCI strongly preferred, Familiarity with Advana, Familiarity with cATO, Familiarity with CDAO-managed environments, Prior tech lead or staff engineer role, Experience with AWS GovCloud / C2S, Experience with Azure Government / Government Secret, Experience with other accredited cloud environments, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD into disconnected environments, Data engineering at scale, Willing to pursue a security clearance
What You'll Do.
Own integration topology
Own deployment topology
Write production code
Develop backend services
Develop data pipelines
Own deployment roadmap
Execute Statement of work
Decide what's in scope
Decide what's a one-off
Decide what becomes product
Flag when something slips
Run customer working sessions
Brief program offices
Deploy across IL boundaries
Work hands-on inside SIPR/JWICS
Work hands-on inside air-gapped networks
Land workloads on Advana
Land workloads on CDAO-managed environments
Partner with security
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Cross-functional teams; Customer working sessions; Program offices; Security teams; ISSMs; AOs
Communication Scope
Stakeholder communication; Customer communication; Program office briefings; Status updates
Process & Methodology
Roadmap planning, Risk management, Dependency management
Full Job Description
C3 AI (NYSE: AI), is the Enterprise AI application software company. C3 AI delivers a family of fully integrated products including the C3 Agentic AI Platform, an end-to-end platform for developing, deploying, and operating enterprise AI applications, C3 AI applications, a portfolio of industry-specific SaaS enterprise AI applications that enable the digital transformation of organizations globally, and C3 Generative AI, a suite of domain-specific generative AI offerings for the enterprise. Learn more at: C3 AI Forward Deployed Team Leads are senior tech leads who own a federal customer end-to-end. You'll combine strong technical architecture, hands-on coding, product ownership, project management, and stakeholder communication — embedding directly with civilian agency and Department of War (DoW) / DoD customers to take our product from "design" to "in production." You'll own one account at a time: scope the workflow with operators, design the architecture, write the code that closes the gaps, drive ATO / cATO, and deploy into the environments the mission actually runs on — including high-side. This role requires US Citizenship. Active Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance (Secret or higher) is preferred. Responsibilities: Technical architecture. Own data flow, integration topology, identity model, and deployment topology across IL boundaries. Hands-on coding. Write production code yourself — backend services, data pipelines, APIs, integrations. Product ownership. Own the deployment's roadmap. Execute on the Statement of work. Decide what's in scope, what's a one-off, and what should become product. Project management. Own the plan, milestones, risks, and dependencies. When something slips, know first and flag first. Stakeholder communication. Run customer working sessions, brief program offices, and write clean status updates senior stakeholders will actually read. Ship into production, including high-side. Deploy across IL2 → IL5 → IL6 as the mission requ
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