Teams at DEFCON AI

Leads a cross-functional team delivering an AI-enabled federal decision-support capability from discovery through deployment and operations. Owns technical strategy, architecture, integration, security, quality, delivery planning, risk resolution, and organizational development. The role aligns software, data, AI, infrastructure, cybersecurity, and product teams into a secure, explainable, maintainable system while partnering with customers and stakeholders. It is a remote-first role requiring occasional travel and US citizenship with Secret clearance eligibility.

Lead software design, architecture, and delivery for a government program: own end-to-end build, integrate optimization/analytics, manage unclassified-to-secure transfer, coordinate PM/SMEs/data scientists, lead a small engineering team, and ensure deployments with CI/CD and security practices. Customer-facing role requiring hands-on coding and program accountability.

Build and maintain data and model layers for an AI decision‑support system: data ingestion, probabilistic record matching, calibrated scoring, provenance‑tracked retrieval and grounded generation, and secure production pipelines. Ensure explainability, auditability, and accredited deployment in a controlled government cloud environment.