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About the role
This is not a project management role, but a hybrid of strategic thinking, technical fluency, client partnership, and relentless ownership. Own the full lifecycle: Walk into a federal agency, decompose their hardest problems, architect a path to production on Lemma, and drive it to completion - through compliance, politics, and technical uncertainty.
What they're looking for
- First-principles thinker: You decompose complex, ambiguous problems into their load-bearing assumptions instinctively. You synthesize technical constraints, political dynamics, compliance requirements, and user behavior into a cohesive plan
- Federal fluency: Navigated at least some of: FedRAMP, ATO packages, FISMA, NIST 800-53, IL4/IL5. etc. You don't need to be a compliance engineer, but you need to design delivery approaches that work within the landscape
- Delivery under real constraints: You've shipped something meaningful in production, not a demo. Federal, defense, or IC experience is ideal, heavily regulated domains (financial services, healthcare, energy) also count if the complexity was comparable
- Ownership as identity: You see projects through from beginning to end. On a team of fewer than 30, there is nowhere to hide. That excites you
More about this role
Thread AI is focused on building an AI orchestration engine and is looking for dedicated individuals to join its growing team. Our goal is to make infrastructure simple for enterprises and public sector agencies seeking to get the most from AI and AI Agents.
Headquartered in New York, our growing team is a group of experts who have a track record of creating and executing against complex workflows and infrastructure.
We are a lean team of engineers, strategists, and product thinkers - with a co-founding team that spent the better part of a decade building AI/ML products at Palantir that were deployed across both the private sector and public sector. We believe that a small dedicated team with a flat structure and collaborative culture can move faster and build better products than large hierarchical organizations. We believe that if AI is going to change the way we work, we have an obligation to make it trustworthy, verifiable, and human-centered. That belief shapes everything we build and how we operate.
This is not a project management role, but a hybrid of strategic thinking, technical fluency, client partnership, and relentless ownership.
Own the full lifecycle: Walk into a...
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