# Federal Deployment Lead at Thread AI

- Company: Thread AI
- What the company does: Backed by Index.
- Company website: http://threadai.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: New York Office
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $230K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-03-30
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/thread-ai/56053556-400b-43e0-9f7a-ff50ebc40bb6
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/thread-ai-federal-deployment-lead/

## 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

Tags: Engineering