Applied AI Engineer, Cyber, Government
Remote • Washington, DC • FullTime
Posted 12d ago
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
We are seeking a hands-on Applied AI Engineer with deep cybersecurity experience and a product mindset to help government and national security customers apply frontier AI to critical cyber missions. You will bring practical expertise in areas such as red teaming, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, threat hunting, and similar fields, ideally developed through work with the defense and intelligence sector. Working directly with cyber operators, security researchers, and engineering teams, you’ll identify high-value applications, write code, build and evaluate AI-powered tools and agentic workflows, and move solutions from prototype into secure operational use. You’ll design architectures using OpenAI models, APIs, and existing security tooling, grounded in customers’ mission requirements and operational constraints. You will collaborate closely with Sales, Solutions Engineering, Applied Research, Product, and Security teams to deliver measurable improvements in cyber capabilities and translate customer experience into better models and products.
Responsibilities
- Work on-site with clients in the DMV area.
- Lead hands-on implementation for government cyber use cases.
- Identify high-value AI applications across various cybersecurity domains.
- Build secure cyber prototypes, agentic workflows, and reference architectures.
- Design and run evaluations to measure technical correctness, security impact, reliability, and operator effectiveness.
- Partner with government security leaders and internal teams to establish success criteria and deliver outcomes.
- Contribute reusable code, examples, and technical guidance to open-source resources.
- Share knowledge and best practices to scale the Applied AI Engineering function.
- Translate customer deployments and insights into actionable feedback for Product, Engineering, and Research teams.
Requirements
- Hold an active TS/SCI clearance and a current, active full-scope polygraph.
- 7+ years of hands-on technical experience in cybersecurity, cyber operations, or security-focused software engineering.
- Experience directly with government customers or national security mission teams.
- Practical experience across offensive and defensive cybersecurity, with depth in areas such as red teaming, adversary emulation, vulnerability research, reverse engineering, threat hunting, or detection engineering.
- Experience supporting NSA or comparable national security cyber missions is strongly preferred.
- Personally written code, integrated security tools, and built, tested, and deployed cyber capabilities or security automation.
- Understand secure network and cloud architecture, identity and least privilege, restricted operating environments, application-security toolchains, authorization boundaries, and human-approved remediation.
- Hands-on programming experience with languages such as Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, or Go.
- Ability to integrate APIs, agents, command-line tools, and security platforms into reliable workflows.
- Clear communication with cyber practitioners, engineers, senior leaders, and nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to own problems end to end and learn unfamiliar tools, systems, or mission requirements.
- Collaborate with humility, share knowledge generously, and help colleagues and customers succeed.
- Drive multiple concurrent projects with urgency, sound judgment, and clear prioritization.