Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert; CBP

Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert (AI SME) (CBP)

At Agile Defense we know that action defines the outcome and new challenges require new solutions. That's why we always look to the future and embrace change with an unmovable spirit and the courage to build for what comes next.

Our vision is to bring adaptive innovation to support our nation's most important missions through the seamless integration of advanced technologies, elite minds, and unparalleled agility—leveraging a foundation of speed, flexibility, and ingenuity to strengthen and protect our nation's vital interests.

The role exists to bring rigor, not to chase what is newest. And a meaningful part of the job is being the person in the room who can tell the difference between a model that looks impressive in a demo and one that is actually safe to run.

Objective 1:
Design models that are accurate enough to trust with real decisions

• Model performance gets validated against real operational conditions, not only against a clean benchmark dataset.
• Where a model is wrong, you can say how it is wrong and how often, rather than reporting a single accuracy number and stopping there.
• You can explain a model's behavior to someone who did not build it, in terms they can evaluate.

Objective 2:
Keep models safe and aligned once they are running against real data

• Model behavior gets monitored after deployment, not just validated once before it.
• Drift and degraded performance get caught before they change an operational outcome.
• Failure modes are documented and understood before a model goes live, not discovered afterward.

Objective 3:
Get AI capability through federal review without the review becoming a guessing game for everyone else

• Documentation and evidence for a security or accreditation review come out of your normal development process.
• You can tell an engineering team early what an AI capability will need to clear review, before they have built around an assumption that will not survive it.
• Reviewers get a straight answer about what a model does and does not do.

Objective 4:
Build technical judgment into the program that outlasts any one model

• Other engineers and program staff come to you before committing to an AI approach, not after it has already been built.
• Where AI is not the right tool for a problem, you can say so and be heard.
• Standards for evaluating and deploying models exist and get used on the next project, not reinvented each time.

Preferred Experience

• You have taken a machine learning model from prototype to a production system that real people depended on.
• You have worked in a regulated or federal environment where a model's decisions had to be explainable and defensible, not only accurate.
• You have caught a model failure before it reached a decision that mattered, and can describe how.
• You are comfortable across the model lifecycle: data, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring, rather than specialized in only one stage.
• You hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.
• You can talk about the limits of a model as clearly as you talk about its capabilities.

We are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.

If you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.

Agile's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.

Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together.

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