Forward Deployed Team Lead, Federal

<div class="content-intro"><p>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.&nbsp;Learn more at: <strong><a href="https://c3.ai/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">C3 AI</span></a></strong></p></div><p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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."</span></p> <p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">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.</span></p> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><u>This role requires US Citizenship. Active Department of Defense (DoD) security clearance (Secret or higher) is preferred</u></strong><strong>.&nbsp;</strong></span></h1> <h1><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Responsibilities:</span></h1> <ul> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Technical architecture. </strong>Own data flow, integration topology, identity model, and deployment topology across IL boundaries.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Hands-on coding. </strong>Write production code yourself — backend services, data pipelines, APIs, integrations.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Product ownership. </strong>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.</span></li> <li style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Project management. </strong>Own the plan, milestones, risks, and dependencies. When something slips