AI Governance Architect — Secret Clearance, Arlington

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Paid and unpaid time away from work

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks an AI Governance Specialist to develop and maintain a formal governance framework for AI tools used in support of a government client at Arlington, VA.

You will implement controls, audits, and continuous improvement to ensure compliant and ethical AI deployment. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, an active Secret clearance, and experience with AI policy reviews and monitoring for bias, drift, and errors in

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 2+ years of relevant experience.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Experience evaluating, risk-assessing, and approving third-party and proprietary AI tools for security, privacy, and ethical alignment.
• Ability to identify, measure, and manage operational, ethical, and workforce impacts of AI automation across business workflows.
• Strong track record in monitoring AI models for bias, drift, hallucinations, and error rates, and implementing automated guardrails for continuous QA.
• Experience conducting AI policy reviews and adapting internal frameworks to evolving AI capabilities and global regulations (e.g., NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, EU AI Act).
• Able to report to Arlington, VA up to full-time based upon client needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain a formal AI Governance Framework governing selection, deployment, monitoring, and retirement of all AI tools used for a government client.
• Address selection and approval of AI tools, human-in-the-loop controls, review and validation, bias/QA monitoring, and audit trails.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

AI governance

risk assessment

policy reviews

bias and error monitoring

human-in-the-loop controls

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) seeks an AI Governance Specialist to develop and maintain a formal governance framework for AI tools used in support of a government client at Arlington, VA.

You will implement controls, audits, and continuous improvement to ensure compliant and ethical AI deployment. The role requires a Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years of relevant experience, an active Secret clearance, and experience with AI policy reviews and monitoring for bias, drift, and errors in