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title: 'DevOps Engineer at ConductorAI'
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# DevOps Engineer at ConductorAI

- **Company:** ConductorAI
- **Location:** Washington, DC
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/conductorai/3866223f-36fb-4017-aa43-3c4b6f200029

## Job description

## INTRODUCTION

We value candidates who have significant experience with managing complexity, working independently, and are motivated by hard problems.

## WHAT WE OFFER

- The ability to have real impact on mission-critical workflows
- The chance to use state-of-the-art tech to solve novel problems with mission partners
- The opportunity to define your role through time as we grow
- Competitive salary and equity upside with annual merit refreshes based on impact

## POSITION OVERVIEW

You'll help build and deploy different configurations of our application into a variety of environments, including numerous air-gapped classified networks. You'll contribute to defining and improving our system architecture, adding and optimizing services to our core platform and our tooling stack, building out CI/CD pipelines, writing and improving Helm charts, and informing our deployment strategy. You'll have an opportunity to shape how we ship code into highly sensitive environments. You'll help drive our system's numerous accreditations, including FedRAMP, IL5, IL6, and beyond. You'll help diagnose and fix technical issues resulting from the rapidly increasing scale of data and usage on our platform.

We are seeking an engineer with a generalist skillset and attitude, strong communication skills, and a willingness and ability to take ownership of hard problems. You’ll be working on a small tight knit technical team, with the opportunity to help define and mature our architecture and processes as we grow.

## KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

- Design and maintain the architecture of a system with multiple AI models, a set of backend APIs, and a frontend web application
- Work with partners to deploy our software to classified customer environments, including going on-site as needed
- Docker: Help write and improve the Dockerfiles of the various pieces of our system, to build efficient and hardened docker images with minimal CVEs
- Kubernetes: Help write and improve our Helm charts that define our deployments into a variety of different Kubernetes clusters, including those backed by cloud infrastructure as well as on-prem
- CI/CD: Help improve our Github actions CI/CD processes to make updates to our application and its dependencies as painless and robust as possible
- System Accreditation: Help us make technical decisions to enable continued compliance with a variety of standards, such as FedRAMP
- Strategy and Culture: As a core member of our team, contribute to company strategy, nurture and shape our growing culture, and take on diverse responsibilities as we evolve

## QUALIFICATIONS

- 2+ years as an individual contributor DevOps engineer (or similar position)
- Experience collaborating with other engineers
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Proactive mindset, with a knack for identifying opportunities and taking initiative
- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and CI/CD
- Strong experience with system design and strategy, including multi-cloud software deployment
- Knowledge of cybersecurity principles/best practices, especially FedRAMP and NIST 800-53
- Experience with LLMs is a plus

The base salary range for this role is $180K-$230K with the opportunity for significant equity. However, this is just an estimate - starting pay will be based on a number of factors, including qualifications, experience, and performance in the interview process.

## About ConductorAI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: ConductorAI builds an AI-powered platform called Conduit that helps large organizations, especially the U.S. government, navigate complex policies and approvals to move decisions from months to minutes.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: Scarborough, Maine, United States
- **Founded**: 2023
- **Founders**: Ben Fichter (Co-Founder), Eric Schwartz (Co-Founder and COO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Government technology (Defense, Intelligence, Civilian Agencies), Legal & Compliance (e-discovery, FOIA, ITAR), Enterprise workflow automation.
- **Target customers**: B2G (U.S. Department of Defense, civilian agencies, intelligence community) and B2B (commercial organizations with complex approval processes).
- **Mission**: Help the government move faster by cutting through red tape and accelerating secure information sharing.

## Products & Services
- **Conduit Platform** – AI-powered workflow orchestration and agentic search platform that ingests complex policy documents and enables experts to encode processes into intuitive, AI-augmented decision trees. Supports security classification, FOIA review, e-discovery, investigations, ITAR compliance, foreign disclosure, and foreign military sales. Available via APIs and deployed in Green, Red, and Yellow enclaves with FedRAMP High accreditation.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $23M (conflicting reports: $15M Series A led by Lux Capital in April 2025, plus additional investment from Booz Allen Ventures in July 2025; other sources cite $23M from Lux Capital and a16z) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/conductor-ai) [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/conductorai)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lux Capital, a16z (Andreessen Horowitz), Booz Allen Ventures.
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew 52.4% year-over-year to 16 employees; 8 active job postings as of mid-2026; product deployed in the most sensitive government environments; FedRAMP High accredited.

## Competitive Advantages
- **FedRAMP High Authorization** – Allows deployment in top-secret and classified environments, a significant barrier to entry.
- **Dual-Use Platform** – Serves both government and commercial customers, reducing dependency on single market cycles.
- **Microservice Architecture** – Built for complex, air-gapped environments with robust CVE mitigation, hardened images, and support for multiple LLMs.
- **Agentic Search & Workflow Orchestration** – Differentiates by combining AI search with policy-encoded decision trees, enabling rapid, auditable approvals.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Expand across U.S. civilian agencies and commercial sectors; deepen capabilities in security classification, FOIA, and foreign disclosure; maintain FedRAMP compliance and expand to international allied governments.
- **Growth direction**: Scaling the Conduit platform as a standard for AI-augmented bureaucratic processes, with a clear path to becoming the operating system for government approvals.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlight**: Mission-driven, early-stage startup focused on making a tangible impact on national security and government efficiency. Described as “building on the cutting edge of AI-powered decision making for Defense, Intelligence, USG Civilian, and Commercial customers.”
- **Remote/hybrid policy**: Remote-first company operating on East Coast hours with a hub in NYC; hybrid presence in Washington, DC. Open positions are listed as hybrid (NY, DC, or Maine) and some remote.
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: Equity is offered; salary ranges for engineering roles from $150K–$220K. Engineering team works on microservice architecture, multiple LLM integrations, and high-security deployments. Teams are small (16 people) with high autonomy and close collaboration with founders.

## Sources
1. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/conductorai)
2. [conductorai.com](https://www.conductorai.com/)
3. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/conductor-ai)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/conductorai)
5. [conductorai.co](http://conductorai.co/)

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