Sustainment Technical Product Specialist

Sustainment Technical Product Specialist

K ’s National Security Solutions team provides high‑end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country’s most critical role – protecting our national security.

K  (formerly Lin Quest) is the prime contractor on the Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) Systems Engineering, Integration and Test (MSEIT) contract.

K  is seeking a highly‑skilled, motivated and proactive teammate to support Mission Delta 8 (MD8), 8th Sustainment Squadron (8

STS) located at Peterson Space Force Base (PSFB), CO. We conduct operations and sustainment (O&S) activities for state‑of‑the‑art Military and Commercial Satellite Communications (SATCOM) and Nuclear Command, Control and Communications (NC3) systems, providing global secure, survivable and protected communications for our Nation’s warfighters.

• Innovative Projects: K ’s work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
• Collaborative Environment:
  Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work:
  Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.

• Develop and maintain a practical roadmap for agentic AI and AI/ML evaluation capabilities that can be applied to the MSEIT Sustainment Test and Evaluation effort
• Conduct structured applied learning in AI/ML, LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation frameworks, tracing, safety, reliability, and related software practices; convert learning into usable artifacts
• Design, build, and maintain evaluation harnesses for LLM‑enabled and agentic AI applications, including golden test sets, rule‑based and model‑based graders, human‑validated scoring approaches, CI‑integrated regression gates, and evidence packages
• Define evaluation claims, measures, acceptance criteria, datasets, rubrics, test conditions, traces, and readiness evidence for AI‑enabled systems
• Evaluate not only what an AI system says, but what it does, how it does it, what authority it exercises, and what happens when it deviates
• Instrument AI systems with distributed tracing and observability practices to support failure diagnosis, drift detection, regression analysis, and black‑box evaluation in constrained environments
• Conduct adversarial and resilience‑oriented assessments of agentic systems, including prompt injection, goal hijacking, tool misuse, memory poisoning, and related failure modes; document findings and mitigation outcomes
• Help distinguish AI‑system failure from test‑case defects, evaluator defects, environment failures, configuration problems, and insufficient evidence
• Translate reproducibility, auditability, evaluation integrity, resilience, operational recovery, safety assurance, and human oversight into testable engineering requirements and practical contract guidance
• Map established T&E practices to AI evaluation and create roadmaps, playbooks, demonstrations, templates, and guidance that help other engineering and test personnel extend their skills into the AI domain
• Identify mission‑relevant AI/ML use cases and provide evidence‑based recommendations concerning value, limitations, risk, readiness, and operational implications
• Produce error taxonomies, technical reports, executive briefings, reference material, and decision‑quality evidence for leadership and engineering stakeholders
• Coordinate with systems engineering, software, cybersecurity, data, product, program, and customer stakeholders to ensure evaluations reflect mission context and operational risk

• Location:
  
  On‑Site Peterson Space Force Base, Product Support Facility (PSF), Bldg. 2025. 1050
  
  E. Stewart Ave., Colorado Springs, CO 80914
• Travel Requirements: less than 20%
• Working Hours:
  
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• Active DoW Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science,…