AI/ML Zero-Trust Architect for NIH Governance

eTelligent Group LLC; Bethesda (MD); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

eTelligent Group LLC seeks a seasoned AI/Zero Trust architect to lead AI-enabled Zero Trust Use Case Identification for NIH OCIO. You will work in the Architecture Pod to define when AI signals inform enforcement and ensure alignment with NIH governance and data policies.

The role requires a CS degree with 8+ years in AI/ML, Python, and security telemetry; NIH suitability and PIV credentials; fluent English. Hybrid work at NIH Bethesda, MD with on-site workshops and discovery sprints.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, data science, or related field with 8+ years of experience.
• Experience designing risk or trust-scoring models on security telemetry (identity, endpoint, network, or SIEM data).
• Hands-on Python and ML framework experience.
• Ability to obtain NIH suitability determination and PIV credential; fluent in English.

Responsibilities

• Lead a six-week discovery with ISAO, GRC, OITA, and CIT to build the AI Use Case Inventory across all ZTA pillars.
• Score each use case on risk reduction, feasibility, mission impact, and data-governance readiness.
• Record for each use case its NIST AI RMF 1.0 function, data classification, human-in-the-loop requirement, and OMB inventory disposition.
• Produce AI technical architectures: data-flow diagrams, model requirements, trust-scoring logic as policy-as-code, and integration patterns.
• Design use cases such as continuous authentication risk scoring, credential-misuse detection, device risk classification from EDR/MDM telemetry, API and workload-identity anomaly detection.
• Extend Zero Trust to AI agents and copilots: authorization of agent actions, data-leakage controls, prompt-injection risk.
• Define and run the Subtask 3.3 measurement protocol (detection rate, false-positive rate, time to detect, analyst hours saved) in controlled NIH telemetry evaluations.

Skills

AI/ML design

Python

Security telemetry

Risk scoring

NIST AI RMF knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree (preferred)

Tools

Python

scikit-learn

PyTorch

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Defender

CrowdStrike

SOAR platforms

Azure AI/SageMaker/Bedrock

OPA/Rego

Job description

eTelligent Group LLC seeks a seasoned AI/Zero Trust architect to lead AI-enabled Zero Trust Use Case Identification for NIH OCIO. You will work in the Architecture Pod to define when AI signals inform enforcement and ensure alignment with NIH governance and data policies.

The role requires a CS degree with 8+ years in AI/ML, Python, and security telemetry; NIH suitability and PIV credentials; fluent English. Hybrid work at NIH Bethesda, MD with on-site workshops and discovery sprints.