Forward Deployed Engineer, Gov; DC

About Sayari

Sayari is a risk intelligence provider that equips the public and private sectors with immediate visibility into complex commercial relationships by delivering the largest commercially available collection of corporate and trade data from over 250 jurisdictions worldwide. Sayari's solutions enable risk resilience, mission‑critical investigations, and better economic decisions. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., its solutions are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and government agencies, and are used globally by thousands of users in over 35 countries.

Funded by world‑class investors, with a strategic $228 million investment by TPG Inc. (NASDAQ: TPG) in 2024, Sayari has been recognized by the Inc. 5000 and the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 as one of the fastest growing private companies in the United States and was featured as one of Inc.’s "Best Workplaces" for 2025.

This is not a traditional sales engineering role. As a Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE), you are at the critical intersection of our code, our clients, and their most critical missions. You will be deployed to our most strategic partners, embedding within their environments to solve high‑stakes problems that have no textbook answers. You own the "last mile" of our product's impact, ensuring our technology fundamentally transforms how our users confront challenges such as financial crime, supply chain disruption, and threats to national security.

You are equal parts engineer, strategist, and operator. One day you might be architecting a data pipeline within a client’s cloud environment; the next, you’ll be writing production Python to integrate our API into a proprietary analytics platform; and by the end of the week, you could be briefing a C‑level executive, intelligence analyst, or mission director on the outcomes your work has enabled.

You thrive on ambiguity, operate with extreme ownership, and are relentless in your pursuit of delivering real‑world value. You will act as a vital conduit between the front lines and our core engineering teams, turning your bespoke solutions into scalable, platform‑wide features of Sayari’s product suite.

• Embed and Build: Deploy directly into our clients' technical ecosystems and work with key stakeholders to understand their unique workflows, technical environments, and mission challenges. Design, build, and ship production‑grade code. You will write robust Python applications, advanced SQL, and leverage our APIs to solve bespoke challenges at the edge.
• Own the Outcome: Lead the entire technical lifecycle of our most strategic deployments, from initial discovery and architectural design to implementation and operationalization. You are responsible for ensuring our platform delivers tangible, mission‑critical value.
• Be the Tip of the Spear: Serve as the primary technical authority for our clients. You'll lead deep‑dive technical workshops, debug complex systems, and act as a trusted, hands‑on advisor on how to best leverage Sayari’s platform to achieve their objectives in real‑world investigations and missions.
• Engineer Solutions for the Mission: Deconstruct ambiguous, high‑level mission requirements into concrete technical solutions. Architect and implement scalable data models and workflows, ranging from building robust data pipelines into client persistence layers (Snowflake, Databricks, etc.) to developing custom Python scripts and prototyping AI/ML models.
• Shape Our Product: Act as the vital conduit between the front lines and our core engineering teams. You will translate complex, real‑world operational needs and feedback into the next generation of Sayari’s platform.

• 5+ years of experience in a client‑facing, technical role (Forward Deployed Engineer, Sales Engineering, Solutions Architecture, Technical Consulting, etc.).
• Demonstrated ability to write clean, production‑ready code, with strong proficiency in programming languages (preferably Python) and its data manipulation ecosystem (Pandas, etc.).
• Deep fluency in writing and optimizing complex SQL queries.
• Hands‑on,…