NSA / Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Expert

micro1; United States; Remote; USD 69,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

micro1 is a data lab that focuses on evaluating AI systems through SIGINT-inspired scenarios and expert analysis. This remote contractor role involves developing realistic, unclassified SIGINT scenarios and reference materials to evaluate AI outputs for accuracy and reasoning.

You will review assessments, craft rubrics, and collaborate with teams to enhance model performance in national security contexts. Ideal candidates have NSA/military or allied government intelligence backgrounds and are

Qualifications

• Professional experience in government or military SIGINT operations.
• Strong understanding of SIGINT methodologies, intelligence workflows, and analytical practices.
• Ability to assess complex intelligence scenarios and communicate findings clearly.

Responsibilities

• Develop realistic, unclassified SIGINT scenarios and reference materials for AI evaluation tasks.
• Review AI-generated intelligence assessments for technical accuracy, relevance, and analytical quality.
• Create and refine evaluation rubrics to assess AI-generated outputs against established intelligence methodologies.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and errors in SIGINT-related reasoning and operational scenarios.
• Provide structured feedback and collaborate with project teams to improve model performance.

Skills

SIGINT analysis

Scenario development

Analytical reasoning

Assessment evaluation

Technical documentation

COMINT

ELINT

Cyber intelligence

Intelligence workflows

Rubric development

AI evaluation

Structured feedback

Clear communication

Collaboration

Job description

Pay: $50 - $100/hour

Required Skills

• signals intelligence (sigint) analysis
• intelligence scenario development
• analytical reasoning
• intelligence assessment evaluation
• technical documentation
• comint (communications intelligence)
• elint (electronic intelligence)
• cyber intelligence operations
• intelligence workflows
• quality evaluation/rubric development
• ai evaluation and model testing
• structured feedback
• clear communication
• collaboration

About micro1

micro1 is a data lab that helps AI labs & Enterprises train foundational models and agents. We provide frontier evaluations and reinforcement learning environments to improve LLM capabilities, as well as contextual evaluations to monitor and improve AI agents in enterprise settings.

Our AI recruiting agent sources and vets domain experts for our data platform that enables rapid production of high-quality training data. Our research spans high-value, specialized domains (legal, medical, finance, coding, etc.), where expert-level data is the hardest to produce and most valuable for advanced model performance. Our pipeline performance system ensures both quality and velocity.

Role type: Contractor

Location: Remote

Commitment: Flexible, project or task-based

Compensation: Typically $50–$100 USD/hour, negotiable based on experience

About the opportunity

micro1 is looking for experienced Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) professionals with backgrounds in the National Security Agency (NSA), military intelligence, or allied government intelligence organizations to support customer projects focused on AI training and evaluation. In this role, you'll apply your intelligence expertise to assess AI-generated outputs, develop realistic scenarios, and help establish standards for analytical accuracy and reasoning.

Your expertise will help improve how AI systems interpret intelligence information, understand operational workflows, and approach complex national security scenarios.

What you'll do

• Develop realistic, unclassified SIGINT scenarios and reference materials for AI evaluation tasks.
• Review AI-generated intelligence assessments for technical accuracy, relevance, and analytical quality.
• Create and refine evaluation rubrics to assess AI-generated outputs against established intelligence methodologies.
• Identify gaps, inconsistencies, and errors in SIGINT-related reasoning and operational scenarios.
• Provide structured feedback and collaborate with project teams to improve model performance.

Required qualifications

• Professional experience in government or military Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) operations, collection, or analysis.
• Strong understanding of SIGINT methodologies, intelligence workflows, and analytical practices.
• Ability to assess complex intelligence scenarios and communicate findings clearly.

Preferred qualifications

• Previous experience with the NSA, US intelligence community, or allied government intelligence agencies.
• Expertise in COMINT, ELINT, signals analysis, or cyber intelligence operations.
• Experience preparing intelligence assessments, operational reports, or technical documentation.
• Familiarity with intelligence training, quality evaluation, or analytical review processes.
• Exposure to AI evaluation, model testing, or rubric development is a plus.