Forward Deployed Engineer Lead (mid-career, level 4)

**Description:** Serves as a Staff-level Forward Deployed Engineer for AI Factory (an internal AI/ML Ops Platform), leading the use of Lockheed Martin's AI Factory platform to solve customer MLOps and GenAI problems. Owns customer solution discovery, architecture, implementation strategy, deployment, and adoption for high-value AI/ML workflows while ensuring the platform is used effectively, consistently, and with maximum reuse. Uses this deployment work to identify weaknesses in AI Factory's foundational products and platform, such as design flaws, performance gaps, reliability risks, and integration friction, and drives actionable remediation suggestions back to core platform engineering team.
Core Responsibilities
• Lead customer-facing technical discovery to translate mission, user, and program needs into deployable AI Factory solutions spanning MLOps pipelines, GenAI applications, and agentic workflows.
• Own end-to-end delivery across solution design, integration planni...