Ethical AIIV&V Specialist

• AI Compliance & Governance
  • Oversee compliance and governance of AI products ensuring alignment with governance frameworks and risk controls (e.g. NGA CORE data policies IC/Department of Defense standards).
  • Design automated workflows for continuous validation of model compliance and governance performance suitability and mission alignment.
  • Establish structured model documentation (model/data cards methodology hyperparameters evaluation metrics) to support explainability auditability and accreditation packages.

• Fairness Audits & Bias Documentation

  • Develop and apply fairness bias and ethical risk assessment metrics across multi-modal GEOINT datasets and models.
  • Document and maintain bias findings mitigation plans and risk tags as part of official system records.
  • Conduct impact assessments on underrepresented classes operational edge cases and potential disparate outcomes in model outputs.

• Ethical Risk Tagging & Monitoring

  • Implement risk tagging frameworks within the model registry to track ethical considerations potential AI deception risks and transparency compliance.
  • Build monitoring dashboards and alerts for bias drift and ethical risk triggers that may require model retraining or re-accreditation.
  • Provide transparent ethical risk reporting to IT Security ATO authorities and mission stakeholders.

• Bachelors degree in AI/ML Data Science Ethics in Technology or a related field; additional years of experience may be substituted.
• 3 years of hands-on experience in AI/ML system validation assurance or responsible AI frameworks.
• Proficiency in Python for building analysis scripts validation pipelines and reporting tools.
• Experience conducting model evaluations fairness audits and compliance assessments.
• Understanding of IV&V methodologies bias detection techniques and ethical risk assessment frameworks.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters degree in AI/ML Data Ethics or a related discipline.
• Experience with:
  • Bias/fairness metric design and ethical AI risk frameworks (e.g. NIST AI Risk Management Framework).
  • Building IV&V pipelines and model governance dashboards in NGA CORE or similar NGA/Intelligence Community (IC) secure data environments.
  • Contributing to or leveraging open-source responsible AI or audit frameworks.
• Familiarity with geospatial data governance data curation and lineage enforcement.
• Active Top Secret clearance and SCI eligibility.

We are seeking an Ethical AI/IV&V Specialist to support National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts. This specialist will play an important role helping to create technical solutions for multiple AI challenges.

TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. Technology moving at the speed of thought embodies these principles the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers.

We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health dental vision 401K life insurance short-term and long-term disability plans vacation time and holidays.

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WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Reston VA and/or remote. Occasional travel within the National Capital Region (NCR)
• Type of environment: Varies
• Noise level: Low
• Work schedule: Normal work hours constitute on average 8 hours a day 40 hours per week (excluding breaks and meal periods) within standard operational hours occurring 0600-1800 Monday-Friday excluding Federal holidays. May be requested to work evenings and weekends to meet program and contract needs.
• Amount of Travel: 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to use hands to handle feel touch; reach with hands and arms; talk and hear. The employee is regularly required to stand walk sit; climb or balance; and stoop kneel crouch or crawl. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision distance vision peripheral vision depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

U.S Citizenship

Clearance requirement: eligibility to obtain TS/CI

OTHER INFORMATION

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

TekSynap is a drug-free workplace. We reserve the right to conduct drug testing in accordance with federal state and local laws. All employees and candidates may be subject to drug screening if deemed necessary to ensure a safe and compliant working environment.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

In order toprovide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals employment decisions will be based on merit qualifications and abilities. TekSynap does not discriminate against any person because ofrace color creed religion sex national origin disability age geneticinformationor any other characteristic protected by law (referred to as protected status). This nondiscrimination policy extends to all terms conditions and privileges of employment as well as the use of all company facilities participation in all company-sponsored activities and all employment actions such as promotions compensation benefits and termination of employment.

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