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Responsibilities

Arcfield is seeking an Enterprise Artificial Intelligence (AI) Senior Tech Specialist to provide strategic AI technical leadership for the Chief Architect (CA) Office. This individual will serve as a trusted technical advisor to government and contractor stakeholders, leading enterprise and mission AI architecture development, systems engineering integration, AI-enabled capability assessments that enable activity-based intelligence through automated and accelerated mission delivery to our Intelligence Community customers.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership for AI systems engineering, mission engineering, enterprise architecture, and system-of-systems integration activities supporting the CA Office.

Lead the AI definition and evolution of mission, operational, functional, logical, physical, and technical architectures across complex mission portfolios.

Establish and govern AI modeling and development approaches and data sharing and usage standards.

Lead development of AI technical roadmaps, architecture strategies, mission-thread analyses, capability assessments, industry advancements and investment recommendations.

Guide the decomposition, traceability, validation, and management of mission and system requirements across multiple integrated programs and stakeholders.

Lead AI strategic planning, implementation, and evaluate performance, interoperability, affordability, technical maturity, operational risk, and integration impacts.

Define strategies for integrating AI/ML-enabled capabilities into enterprise and mission systems, including data architecture, system interfaces, security, model validation, mission assurance, and lifecycle sustainment considerations.

Provide technical oversight of AI integration, verification, validation, test planning, configuration management, and technical baseline decisions.

Lead and facilitate technical interchange meetings, senior-level customer briefings, and cross-program engineering working groups.

Mentor systems engineers and promote consistent AI rigor supporting engineering practices, and mission-focused technical decision-making across the organization.

Author and review high-impact technical documentation, including executive briefings, white papers, technical assessments, and decision packages.

Qualifications

Required:

Active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph; must be able to maintain the required clearance.

Bachelor’s degree in Systems Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer or Data Science, or a related technical field, plus 12–15 years of relevant professional experience; master’s degree plus 10–13 years ; or PhD plus 10+ years .

Demonstrated technical leadership experience supporting complex mission systems, enterprise architectures, system-of-systems integration, or major acquisition programs.

Proven experience defining, assessing, or integrating AI/ML-enabled capabilities into complex operational, intelligence, defense, or enterprise environments.

Extensive AI and mission engineering experience spanning the full system development life cycle including problem decomposition, acquisition and mission integration.

Expert-level experience developing, implementing and/or evaluating AI models.

Experience with cloud-based mission architectures, data platforms, AI/ML operations, model assurance, or secure deployment of AI-enabled capabilities.

Experience establishing AI strategies, governance processes, or enterprise AI modeling and data standards.

Ability to communicate complex technical concepts and recommendations effectively to senior government leaders, program managers, engineers, and mission stakeholders.

Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams, influencing technical strategy, and resolving complex integration and architecture challenges.

Desired:

Prior experience supporting a Chief Architect office, senior government technical leadership organization, SETA, SEIT, or intelligence-community acquisition program.

Working knowledge of Agile/SAFe methodologies and tools such as Jira and Confluence.

Experience supporting space, intelligence, cyber, GEOINT, SIGINT, OPIR, radar, electro-optical, or other high-consequence national-security missions.

Equal Pay Act

This is the projected compensation range for this position. There are differentiating factors that can impact a final salary/hourly rate, including, but not limited to, Contract Wage Determination, relevant work experience, skills and competencies that align to the specified role, geographic location (For Remote Opportunities), education and certifications as well as Federal Government Contract Labor categories. In addition, Arcfield invests in its employees beyond just compensation. Arcfield ’s benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Retirement and Savings, Learning and Development opportunities, wellness programs as well as other optional benefit elections.

Min: $149,079.70 Max: $259,220.67 EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.