AI Architect (AI Security + Federal)

Jobot; McLean (VA); Remote; USD 200,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

US-only

Learning fund

Home office support

Company holidays

Connectivity support

Conferences & training

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Jobot seeks an AI Solutions Architect for Federal customers. You will lead technical engagements, architect an enterprise AI security platform, and deliver live demonstrations across federated environments.

Expect strong Python development, hands-on AI/ML systems work, and deep knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and related tooling. Remote work within the United States is supported with learning and development funding.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture or similar.
• Direct federal government engagement experience required.
• Strong Python development skills and AI/ML systems know-how.
• Hands-on with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical strategy across federal opportunities.
• Conduct discovery with mission owners, AI/ML engineers, security teams, and stakeholders.
• Translate mission challenges into technical evaluations and PoV engagements.
• Establish timelines, requirements, and exit conditions.
• Advise on where the platform is the right solution.

Skills

Python development

AI/ML systems

Kubernetes

Docker

Security frameworks

Communication skills

Solution architecture

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Helm

OpenShift

AWS

VMware/Proxmox

Private registries

ONNX

Job description

Hosted by: Craig Rosecrans
Salary: $200,000 - $275,000 per year

A bit about us

We are partnering with a rapidly growing, venture-backed technology company operating at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and cybersecurity to hire an AI Solutions Architect focused on Federal customers.

Why join us

You'll join a well-funded, rapidly scaling company building technology in one of the most important emerging areas of cybersecurity: protecting AI systems themselves.

The company has recently completed a significant new funding round and is continuing to expand its engineering, product, and federal organizations.

• Fully remote work within the United States
• Significant exposure to cutting-edge AI and cybersecurity technology
• Direct involvement with important federal AI initiatives
• High technical autonomy and ownership
• Opportunity to work closely with Product, Research, Engineering, and customers
• Flexible paid time off
• Company holidays
• Home-office and connectivity support
• Dedicated learning and development funding for training, certifications, conferences, and industry events

Job Details

What You'll Do

Lead Federal Technical Engagements

• Partner with federal Account Directors to lead technical strategy across complex government opportunities.
• Conduct discovery with mission owners, AI/ML engineers, security teams, architects, and executive stakeholders.
• Understand customers' AI initiatives, architectures, data pipelines, infrastructure, security requirements, and compliance constraints.
• Translate loosely defined mission challenges into clearly scoped technical evaluations and proof-of-value engagements.
• Establish measurable success criteria, timelines, technical requirements, and exit conditions.
• Serve as a trusted technical advisor and provide candid guidance around where the platform is—and is not—the right solution.

Architect & Deploy Real Solutions

• Architect and deploy an enterprise AI security platform across both connected SaaS and fully disconnected/air-gapped environments.
• Package and transfer container images, Helm charts, dependencies, and supporting artifacts into environments with limited or no internet connectivity.
• Deploy and administer Kubernetes-based environments utilizing technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Private container registries, OpenShift, VMware / Proxmox, AWS, including government and restricted environments.
• Troubleshoot deployment, networking, integration, and infrastructure issues during customer evaluations and initial implementations.
• Work directly with SDKs and APIs to build meaningful integrations into customer environments.

Build AI Demonstrations & Proofs of Concept

• Large Language Models
• Agentic AI
• Computer Vision
• Model inference
• Retrieval/RAG architectures
• AI/ML pipelines
• Demonstrate how AI systems can be attacked, compromised, or manipulated—and how those systems can be protected.
• Integrate AI security capabilities throughout the ML lifecycle, including model scanning, CI/CD pipelines, application security, runtime detection, and response.
• Build credible demonstrations that resonate with engineers and mission owners rather than relying on canned sales demos.

Advise on AI Security

• Help federal customers understand how to secure: AI/ML models, LLM‑powered applications, AI agents, Data and inference pipelines, Model supply chains, AI infrastructure, Production AI workloads.

Apply established security concepts and frameworks

• MITRE ATLAS
• OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications
• NIST AI Risk Management Framework
• Adversarial machine learning concepts and attack methodologies

Communicate & Influence

• Deliver live technical demonstrations, architecture sessions, whiteboard discussions, and executive briefings.
• Present effectively to audiences ranging from ML engineers and data scientists to cybersecurity leaders and senior executives.
• Create technical evaluation reports, reference architectures, deployment documentation, and integration guides.
• Represent the organization at federal engagements, conferences, webinars, and industry events.
• Translate lessons learned in the field into reusable demonstrations, technical enablement, and feedback for Product, Research, and Engineering.

What We're Looking For

• 5+ years of experience in Solutions Architecture, Solutions Engineering, Applied AI Engineering, ML Engineering, or a similar customer‑facing technical role.
• Direct experience supporting federal customers across the Intelligence Community, DoD, DHS, or civilian agencies.
• Experience operating within federal missions—not simply selling technology into federal accounts.
• Strong hands‑on Python development skills.
• Practical experience building and integrating modern AI/ML systems.
• Experience with technologies and concepts such as: PyTorch, Hugging Face, ONNX, LLM APIs, Model inference, RAG, Agentic AI architectures, AI/ML pipelines.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
• Experience deploying applications into restricted, disconnected, or air‑gapped environments.
• Understanding of MLOps, CI/CD, and the lifecycle of models from development through production.
• Working knowledge of cybersecurity and AI security concepts.
• Strong technical presentation and communication skills.
• Ability to take an ambiguous customer problem and independently turn it into an executable technical plan.
• Ability and willingness to travel for customer engagements and industry events.

Especially Valuable Experience

• Active Top Secret or higher‑level security clearance.
• Supporting AI/ML programs in classified environments.
• Securing production AI or machine‑learning systems.
• AI/LLM red teaming or adversarial machine learning.
• AI security or AI evaluation tooling.
• Model formats and AI supply‑chain security, including ONNX, SafeTensors, GGUF, Pickle‑based serialization, AWS GovCloud or other government cloud environments, OpenShift and private Kubernetes environments, Federal cybersecurity or compliance frameworks.
• Certifications such as Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, CISSP, or Security+.
• Public technical work including GitHub repositories, Hugging Face projects, conference presentations, open‑source contributions, or technical writing.

The Type of Person Who Will Thrive Here

This organization moves quickly and operates much more like a high‑growth technology company than a traditional government contractor.

We're looking for someone who enjoys solving problems without a perfectly defined playbook.

You should be someone who can walk into an ambiguous federal mission problem, ask the right questions, architect a solution, stand up the environment, write the integration, demonstrate it live, troubleshoot what breaks, and explain the outcome to both engineers and executives.

Intellectual curiosity is especially important. The strongest candidates are typically people who are constantly experimenting—building side projects, maintaining home labs, testing new AI frameworks, contributing to open source, publishing technical content, or simply teaching themselves technologies because they want to understand how they work.

If you're a deeply technical Solutions Architect who understands Federal missions, AI/ML, cloud‑native infrastructure, and security—and you want to help solve the emerging challenge of securing AI systems—we'd love to speak with you.

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