Senior AI Governance & Risk Analyst

UNAVAILABLE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Steampunk seeks a Senior AI Governance Analyst to lead governance frameworks for safe, ethical, secure, and compliant AI systems in a federal context. You will drive risk management, policy alignment, and evaluation across design, development, and operations.

You will partner with engineers, product teams, evaluators, and clients to embed governance principles, document governance artifacts, and ensure ongoing compliance and transparency throughout the AI lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of work experience, or Master’s degree with 8+ years.
• 5+ years’ experience in AI governance, risk management, data ethics, compliance, or responsible tech.
• Knowledge of federal AI policies, NIST RMF, MLSecOps, privacy laws, and agency directives.
• Experience embedding governance into AI/ML development workflows with docs and reviews.
• Familiarity with LLMs, RAG, and generative AI architectures and risk assessment.
• Strong communication skills to articulate governance to engineers, executives, and government clients.
• Experience in agile environments and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead development and implementation of AI governance frameworks aligned to federal policies, NIST RMF, MLSecOps, and agency guidance.
• Drive AI risk identification, assessment, and mitigation to ensure ethical, legal, and security standards.
• Oversee AI documentation artifacts such as model cards, data cards, lineage records, impact assessments, and system risk profiles.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to embed privacy, fairness, transparency, and explainability into AI systems.
• Partner with AI Evaluation Scientists to establish governance-aligned quality thresholds, safety checks, and monitoring requirements.
• Support compliance activities related to data usage, provenance, confidentiality, prompt injection defense, and secure model interaction patterns.
• Develop governance review processes, including readiness assessments, model approvals, and continuous assurance procedures.
• Research emerging AI regulatory trends and best practices to advise leadership on implications.
• Communicate governance requirements and findings to diverse audiences across programs.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute templates, playbooks, and reusable assets for AI governance.

Skills

AI governance

Risk management

Responsible AI

Policy compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Job description

Steampunk seeks a Senior AI Governance Analyst to lead governance frameworks for safe, ethical, secure, and compliant AI systems in a federal context. You will drive risk management, policy alignment, and evaluation across design, development, and operations.

You will partner with engineers, product teams, evaluators, and clients to embed governance principles, document governance artifacts, and ensure ongoing compliance and transparency throughout the AI lifecycle.