Technical Delivery Lead

openteams; Washington, Denver (District of Columbia, CO); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenTeams seeks a Technical Delivery Lead to own the end-to-end delivery of an AI/ML platform in secure, regulated environments. This role requires steering a containerized, API-first platform from development into locked-down production, across network boundaries and gates, with responsibility for security accreditation and program milestones.

You will lead a combined engineering and security team, including partner personnel, and drive architectural decisions, security posture, and sequencing.

Qualifications

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
• 10+ years of software or systems engineering experience.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical delivery teams supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, or comparable Government.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of the platform across unclassified development and classified production environments.
• Lead the promotion of platform releases into classified environments, including signed release packages, SBOMs, cross-domain submissions, and environment parity validation.
• Establish and maintain a recurring software-promotion cadence.
• Lead RMF body of evidence development, including the SSP, control implementations, POAM, and security artifacts.
• Drive the accreditation timeline with Government security officials and the Authorizing Official.
• Position the program for potential transition from traditional ATO to continuous ATO model.
• Direct platform, DevSecOps, and ML infrastructure engineers across unclassified and classified workstreams.
• Set technical priorities, remove delivery blockers, enforce engineering standards, and align execution with milestones.
• Lead cybersecurity and systems engineering personnel responsible for RMF execution, hardening, and classified-environment integration.
• Ensure security engineering is integrated into the delivery lifecycle and automated pipelines.
• Manage subcontractor technical personnel as part of an integrated delivery team.
• Track and manage dependencies affecting delivery and document schedule risks.

Skills

U.S. citizenship

Software/Systems engineering

Technical leadership

Job description

Who We Are

Every organization runs on intelligence: years of accumulated knowledge, decisions, and context. As AI takes on more of that work, companies face a choice: rent that intelligence from vendors who keep the data, the context, and the results, or own it.

OpenTeams exists to make ownership possible.

Founded by Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, and built by people with deep roots across the open-source ecosystem, including NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, and Jupyter, we help enterprises and governments build AI they control, govern, and evolve themselves.

If that sounds like your kind of work, we'd like to meet you.

Technical Delivery Lead

Location: Washington, DC or Denver, CO preferred (hybrid). Highly qualified candidates outside these locations may also be considered for unclassified work.

Work Authorization: U.S. citizenship required

Clearance: An active TS/SCI clearance is strongly preferred. Candidates without an active clearance may be considered for unclassified work but must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.

Salary Range: $145,000-$250,000 USD, dependent on experience level and location

About the Role

We're looking for a Technical Delivery Lead to own the end-to-end technical delivery of an AI/ML platform running in secure, regulated environments. This is a role for someone who has taken a system from a development environment into hardened production and knows how much of that job is not writing code.

The work runs across three fronts. You lead the deployment itself - a containerized, API-first platform moving from open development into locked-down production, across network boundaries and through whatever gates the environment imposes. You steer the system through security accreditation and authorization, which means owning that path rather than waiting on someone else to walk it. And you provide day-to-day technical leadership for a combined engineering and security team, including partner and subcontractor personnel.

This is hands‑on leadership. You'll make the calls on architecture, security posture, and sequencing - and your team will judge those calls on the merits, which is a good thing. The people who thrive here have done this work themselves: the promotion between environments, the boundary crossings, the accreditation paperwork. Not managed it from a distance - done it.

This position is contingent upon contract award. Travel of up to 25% may be required, primarily to Government facilities and between company locations. Unclassified work may be performed remotely, while classified responsibilities require an appropriate clearance and onsite presence in an accredited facility.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical delivery of the platform across unclassified development and classified production environments
• Lead the promotion of platform releases into classified environments, including signed release packages, software bills of materials, cross-domain submission packages, and environment‑parity validation
• Establish and maintain a recurring software‑promotion cadence
• Lead the development and maintenance of the RMF body of evidence, including the System Security Plan, control implementations, Plan of Action and Milestones, and security test artifacts
• Drive the accreditation timeline in partnership with Government security officials and the Authorizing Official
• Position the program for a potential transition from a traditional ATO to a continuous ATO model
• Direct platform, DevSecOps, and ML infrastructure engineers across unclassified and classified workstreams
• Set technical priorities, remove delivery blockers, enforce engineering standards, and align technical execution with contract milestones
• Lead cybersecurity and systems engineering personnel responsible for RMF execution, system hardening, and classified‑environment integration
• Ensure security engineering is integrated into the delivery lifecycle and automated pipelines
• Manage subcontractor technical personnel as part of an integrated delivery team
• Track and escape Government‑furnished information, access, equipment, personnel, and other dependencies that could affect delivery
• Document schedule risks associated with cross‑domain turnaround, environment access, account provisioning, reviews, and approvals
• Serve as the accountable technical owner for milestone acceptance criteria, operational demonstrations, and technical contract deliverables
• Represent technical delivery status during Government program reviews and technical exchange meetings
• Communicate clearly with mission owners, security officials, technical stakeholders, and partner organizations

Required Skills & Experience

• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance
• 10+ years of software or systems engineering experience
• 5+ years of experience leading technical delivery teams supporting Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, or comparable Governmen