Forward Deployed Software Engineer (Syracuse, NY)

About this role

Who we are

About Us 
At Archangel, we deploy AI and robotics to protect service personnel, military personnel, critical infrastructure, and first responders in large, remote areas. Our mission is to make machines smart enough to become competent teammates instead of just tools, working alongside society’s most exposed workers in remote and challenging locations to protect people, infrastructure, assets and planet at scale. 

The role

Joining us as a Forward Deployed Software Engineer, you will have an opportunity to bring state-of-the-art AI to the tactical edge. You will be adapting and deploying vision and language models for compute efficiency and local context, using tools from our existing codebase as well as state-of-the-art tools. This is not a traditional developer role, you will be working directly with the users and traveling to customer sites, building solutions rapidly sometimes on site under difficult conditions.

Skills Needed

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Machine Learning, or equivalent experience.

• Strong programming skills, particularly in Python; experience with Java or C++ is also valuable.

• Experience developing in Linux environments.

• Experience building solutions with LLMs, generative AI, RAG, embeddings, or other applied AI systems.

• Strong foundation in machine learning, including evaluation, training, and problem decomposition.

• Experience with Docker, networking, deployment scripts, and local model-serving tools.

• Familiarity with PyTorch, Hugging Face, llama.cpp, Ollama, vLLM, or similar frameworks.

• Familiarity with vector databases such as Milvus, FAISS, Qdrant, Chroma, or similar.

• Experience building reliable systems with logging, watchdogs, crash recovery, automated testing, CI/CD, and field diagnostics.

• Ability to quickly understand complex systems and established codebases.

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.

• Abi...