Remote AI/Cloud Architect (Part-Time) - Secure Ops

DecisionPoint | Cortek

Oregon

Hybrid

USD 55,000 - 110,000

Part time

5 days ago

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Job summary

DecisionPoint Corporation seeks a part-time AI/Cloud Engineer/Architect to design, build, integrate, and secure artificial intelligence capabilities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This senior role focuses on knowledge assistants, retrieval workflows, and bounded agents with human oversight while ensuring security, traceability, and compliance with tool restrictions.

The position is remote, part-time (0.5 FTE) with preference for Chicago-area candidates.

Qualifications

Active Secret clearance or higher.
Minimum 10 years of relevant professional experience.
Experience designing cloud architectures.
Strong Python development experience.
Experience with secure API design and integration.

Responsibilities

Design and build secure AI-enabled knowledge assistants for mission and operational use cases.
Develop retrieval workflows that connect approved AI capabilities with authoritative enterprise content and data sources.
Design bounded multi-step AI agents with explicitly defined tools, permissions, operating limits, escalation paths, and human approval requirements.
Develop AI applications and supporting services using Python or other Government-approved application languages.
Design and implement secure APIs, microservices, application interfaces, and integration patterns.
Implement authentication, authorization, identity propagation, and role-based access controls for AI-enabled applications.
Establish tool-level permissions and safeguards that limit AI agents to approved systems, data, functions, and actions.