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title: 'Lead Field Engineer at TurbineOne'
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# Lead Field Engineer at TurbineOne

- **Company:** TurbineOne
- **Location:** Remote
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-02-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turbineone/jobs/5132484008

## Job description

Lead Field Engineer

## ABOUT THE JOB

Company Intro: TurbineOne is a fast-moving and high-performance startup with a mission to strengthen situational awareness for all Americans serving at our nation’s frontlines - and we are backed by the best DefenseTech venture capitalists. Our Frontline Perception System is an edge-first software platform that allows anyone, even with no technical knowledge, to build and use machine learning models within a comms-contested tactical environment.

This role serves as a technical and operational leader for field integrations, helping shape how TurbineOne deploys, scales, and supports FPS in operational environments. The Field Integration Engineer plays a key role in organizing integration efforts, implementing tooling and workflows, and enabling field teams and customers to execute reliably and repeatedly.

Job Title: Lead Field Engineer

- Reporting to: Engineering Operations Manager
- Location: Geographically flexible for home-office with frequent travel required

Primary Responsibilities:

- Serve as a technical lead for field integration efforts, helping define and standardize how FPS is deployed, integrated, and supported across customer environments.
- Assist in the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of field engineering tooling, scripts, and integration workflows.
- Identify gaps in integration processes and help implement scalable solutions that improve repeatability, reliability, and deployment speed.
- Partner with engineering, product, and customer success teams to translate field requirements into actionable implementation patterns and tooling.
- Support the operational readiness of field personnel by developing documentation, deployment guides, and integration playbooks.
- Conduct on-site assessments to evaluate customer infrastructure and inform integration strategies and tooling needs.
- Develop and maintain integration plans, timelines, and technical documentation that guide execution across engagements.
- Provide hands-on technical support during deployments, serving as an escalation point for complex integration challenges.
- Gather and synthesize field feedback to inform improvements to FPS capabilities, integration approaches, and internal tooling.
- Help ensure successful deployments by proactively identifying risks and assisting in resolution of integration issues.

On a Typical Day You Would:

- Build, provision, and configure FPS deployments using standardized tooling and repeatable workflows.
- Collaborate with customers and internal teams to align integration requirements with established implementation approaches.
- Design, document, and refine integration processes that can be reused across similar customer environments.
- Develop or improve scripts (JavaScript, Python, Go, Bash) that enable data routing, automation, and integration reliability.
- Deploy and configure FPS on-site or remotely, validating integration performance and stability.
- Support and enable field-facing personnel and customers through documentation, training materials, and technical guidance.
- Provide technical input into improving field tooling, deployment automation, and integration diagnostics.
- Troubleshoot complex integration issues and contribute lessons learned back into process and tooling improvements.

Desired Experience and Attributes:

- Demonstrated ability to lead technical execution and implementation.
- Experience designing or improving operational processes, tooling, or workflows in field or production environments.
- Strong systems-thinking mindset with an interest in making complex integrations repeatable and scalable.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and influence technical direction through expertise and execution.
- Comfort operating as a technical owner in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.

Eligibility:

- Must be eligible to obtain a clearance with the U.S. government.

## About TurbineOne

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: TurbineOne delivers real-time, edge-based machine learning for threat detection and decision advantage on the frontlines of national security.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series Unknown, funded $55M+)
- **Headquarters**: United States (remote-first company)
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Matt Amacker (CEO), Ian Kalin (Chief of Mission & Operations), Ed Padinske (CTO), Dan Portillo (Investor & Co-Founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Defense technology / National security AI
- **Target Customers**: U.S. Department of Defense, frontline military units, intelligence agencies (B2G)
- **Mission Statement**: Deliver the best Mission‑AI to the nation’s frontlines

## Products & Services
- **Frontline Perception System (FPS)**: A hardware‑agnostic, edge‑native machine‑learning platform that ingests sensor data from any vendor to provide real‑time threat detection, targeting, force protection, and autonomous coordination. Designed for fully disconnected, no‑cloud environments. [turbineone.com](https://www.turbineone.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Funding Raised**: $55M+ (date not specified; listed on company About page)
- **Key Metric**: Technology Readiness Level 9 (TRL‑9) – field‑deployed and operational
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The General Partnership (VC firm anchored by Reid Hoffman), multiple awarded DoD contracts (20+)
- **Growth Signals**: 135+ employees, 55% veterans on the team, 50+ military units supported, 20+ awarded DoD contracts, patents awarded to co‑founding engineers

## Competitive Advantages
- **Edge‑First ML**: Runs entirely offline – no cloud dependency, models work in disconnected, contested environments
- **Hardware Agnostic**: Integrates with virtually any external sensor system, enabling interoperability across different platforms
- **Ethics‑First Approach**: Established an ethics policy before writing any code, prioritizing responsible AI use and non‑partisan national security
- **Deep Veteran & Defense Expertise**: 55% of the team are veterans, providing direct operational insight and credibility

## Strategic Focus
- **Mission Autonomy**: Enabling autonomous systems to communicate and coordinate threat detection across every platform and sensor
- **Accelerating the Targeting Cycle**: Automating sensor monitoring to free analysts for higher‑value decision‑making
- **Expanding Force Protection**: Continuous automated scanning of all sensor feeds for instant threat alerts (bases, forces, borders)

## Why Work Here
- **Remote‑First & Fully Remote**: All employees work remotely, with optional in‑office in Washington, DC area
- **Mission‑Driven Culture**: “Our software can save lives” – work directly supports frontline operators, with meaningful impact
- **Generous Benefits**: Medical, dental, vision; parental leave; work travel opportunities; transparent and equitable compensation policies
- **Engineering Environment**: Build cutting‑edge ML, mesh networking, and sensing tech for the edge; strong emphasis on grit, accountability, and customer partnership
- **Diverse Backgrounds**: Mix of Silicon Valley software veterans and military operators – “two worlds collide”

## Sources
1. [turbineone.com – Company Overview](https://www.turbineone.com/)
2. [turbineone.com – About Page](https://www.turbineone.com/about)
3. [turbineone.com – Careers Page](https://www.turbineone.com/careers)
4. [Greenhouse Job Board](http://job-boards.greenhouse.io/turbineone)
5. [Built In – TurbineOne Company Profile](https://builtin.com/company/turbineone)

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