Software Engineer, Federal
Factory · Remote
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## 🏭 Software Engineer, Federal **Factory** — San Francisco, CA (HQ) or Washington, D.C. --- ### 🏢 About Factory Factory's mission is to create a world where software builds and improves itself. Their platform powers self-improving software development for the world's largest enterprise engineering teams. Customers include **Nvidia, Blackstone, RBC, Palo Alto Networks, Adobe, and T-Mobile**. In 2026, Factory raised **$200M at a $5B valuation** (total funding: $400M+), backed by Khosla Ventures, Sequoia, Blackstone, and others. --- ### 🎯 About the Role Join Factory's **founding Federal team** as a Software Engineer. You'll build cutting-edge AI systems for government software organizations — working directly with the **Department of War, Intelligence Community, and federal civilian agencies** to deploy Factory in secure, classified, and air-gapped environments. --- ### 🛠️ What You'll Do - Design, develop, and deploy **AI-driven agentic systems** for federal missions - Deploy and harden the Factory Platform in **GovCloud, on-premises, classified, and air-gapped** environments - Build security and compliance into every shipment — targeting **FedRAMP High** and **DoD IL5/IL6** - Build **multi-layered guardrails, observability, and explainability** into agents for government trust and auditability - Engage directly with federal customers on-site to define requirements and own delivery end-to-end - Integrate Factory with on-premises source control, CI/CD pipelines, ticketing systems, and DoD software factories - Rapidly prototype and refine AI features based on real-world government feedback - Address platform **stability and scalability** in high-consequence, resource-constrained environments - Serve as the **voice of the federal customer**, feeding field insights back into the core platform - Help build the Federal team from the ground up — contributing to proposals, capture strategy, and roadmap --- ### ✅ Qualifications - **2+ years** of hands-on software engineering experience (post Bachelor's or Master's in CS, Engineering, AI, or related field) - Demonstrated proficiency with **LLMs** and applying AI/ML to complex, unstructured problems - Self-motivated and autonomous — proven ability to drive ambiguous projects from conception to deployment - Strong communication skills, including with **non-technical government stakeholders** - Comfortable working on-site at customer locations - Passion for **public sector work** and government technology **Highly Desirable (not mandatory):** - Experience deploying in regulated/secure environments (AWS GovCloud, Azure Government, FedRAMP, DoD Impact Levels, air-gapped networks) - Familiarity with government procurement, compliance, and the **ATO process** - Experience with data-intensive applications and the software development lifecycle
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