技术总监，AI决策系统
Technical Director, AI Decision Systems
DEFCON AI 是一家洞察公司，利用人工智能、数学优化、数据分析和软件工程，对复杂系统进行弹性优化。
在当今不断变化的世界中，DEFCON AI 的技术能够使结果与运营目标保持一致，提升决策质量，并赋能客户预测、评估和减轻中断的影响。
**职位简介**
DEFCON AI 正在寻找一名 **技术总监，AI 决策系统**，领导一个跨职能团队，为联邦政府交付一项新的 AI 驱动的决策支持能力。该团队涵盖产品与设计、软件工程、数据架构、应用分析、AI 解决方案、DevSecOps、网络安全、质量工程和技术转移。
这是一个从零到一的领导角色，适合一位有经验的技术实践者，希望拓展其职责范围。您可能来自工程、数据、AI、产品、设计、平台或其他技术领域。我们不要求您在每个垂直领域都是最深入的专家。但我们期望您能识别优秀的工作，提出困难的问题，在不同学科之间建立清晰的沟通，并将整个系统整合在一起。
您将把任务需求、产品方向、技术限制和交付承诺转化为一个连贯的执行计划。您将制定技术优先级，解决团队之间的衔接问题，建立有效的运作节奏，并确保各个工作流汇聚成一个安全、可解释且可操作的能力。
合适的人选应具备企业家精神，善于利用资源，并对第一公里充满热情。您享受不完整的信息、新兴的工作流程、关键决策以及构建系统和团队的机会。您行动迅速，但也知道何时需要通过测试、文档、安全性和可重复交付来加强速度。
此职位以远程为主，偶尔需要出差（有时占25%），包括 DEFCON AI 总部、客户现场和供应商设施。
**主要职责**
- 领导涵盖产品、设计、工程、数据、AI、分析、DevSecOps、网络安全和质量的跨职能交付团队。
- 从发现阶段到运营部署，负责技术战略、架构、执行和交付。
- 将任务需求和产品优先级转化为清晰的技术计划、发布目标和工程决策。
- 协调软件
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ABOUT DEFCON AI
RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF DISRUPTION. DEFCON AI is an insights company that leverages artificial intelligence, mathematical optimization, data analytics, and software engineering for resilient optimization of complex systems.
In today’s dynamically changing world, DEFCON AI’s technology aligns outcomes with operational goals, better decision making, and empowers customers to anticipate assess, and mitigate the impacts of disruptions.
**About the Role**
DEFCON AI is seeking a **Technical Director, AI Decision Systems** to lead the cross-functional team delivering a new AI-enabled decision-support capability for the federal government. The team spans product and design, software engineering, data architecture, applied analytics, AI solutioning, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, quality engineering, and technical transition.
This is a zero-to-one leadership role for a proven technical practitioner ready to broaden their scope. You may come from engineering, data, AI, product, design, platform, or another technical discipline. We do not expect you to be the deepest expert in every vertical. We do expect you to recognize excellent work, ask hard questions, create clarity across disciplines, and hold the system together.
You will turn mission needs, product direction, technical constraints, and delivery commitments into one coherent execution plan. You will establish technical priorities, resolve seams between teams, build an effective operating rhythm, and ensure that separate workstreams converge into a secure, explainable, and operational capability.
The right person is entrepreneurial, resourceful, and energized by the first mile. You enjoy incomplete information, emerging workflows, consequential decisions, and the opportunity to build both the system and the team delivering it. You move quickly, but you know when speed must be reinforced by testing, documentation, security, and repeatable delivery.
This is remote-first with occasional travel (up to 25% at times) to DEFCON AI HQ, customer sites, and vendor facilities as required.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Lead the cross-functional delivery team spanning product, design, engineering, data, AI, analytics, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and quality.
- Own technical strategy, architecture, execution, and delivery from discovery through operational deployment.
- Translate mission needs and product priorities into clear technical plans, release objectives, and engineering decisions.
- Align software, data, AI, infrastructure, security, and quality into one integrated system.
- Build, mentor, and scale a high-performing technical organization.
- Make architecture, integration, tooling, and delivery decisions that balance speed, security, quality, and maintainability.
- Identify and resolve technical risks, dependencies, and ambiguity before they impact delivery.
- Partner effectively with customers, product leadership, and external stakeholders.
- Remain technically hands-on enough to challenge assumptions, review designs, and solve hard problems.
- Significant accomplishment in software engineering, AI/ML, data systems, analytics, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, product technology, or a comparable technical discipline.
- Experience leading complex technical efforts across multiple teams and specialties.
- Demonstrated ability to turn ambiguity into working systems and measurable outcomes.
- Strong systems thinking, communication skills, and leadership judgment.
- Experience delivering cloud-native software from concept through deployment and operations.
- US Citizenship Required.
- **In scope** US Secret clearance.
- Elevated security requirements apply to portions of this work and are discussed during the interview process.
- Willingness to travel up to 25% to customer sites, DEFCON AI HQ, and vendor facilities as required.
**Preferred Qualifications**
- Clearance: Active Top Secret.
- Experience leading a zero-to-one product, platform, or mission capability.
- Experience delivering technology in defense, intelligence, federal, or similarly regulated environments.
- Experience with AWS GovCloud, DevSecOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code, and secure cloud delivery.
- Experience supporting RMF, ATO, accreditation, or comparable security processes.
- Experience with AI/ML, large language models, analytics, graph technologies, or data-intensive systems.
- Experience building human-in-the-loop decision-support systems and explainable AI capabilities.
- Experience partnering closely with product and design teams to deliver user-centered software.
- Experience hiring, mentoring, and organizing technical teams during rapid growth.
- Experience integrating third-party, partner, or subcontractor-delivered capabilities into a unified solution.
**A Note to Candidates**
You do not need to have held this exact title before to be a strong candidate. We encourage accomplished practitioners from software engineering, data, AI, analytics, product technology, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, design, or quality engineering who are ready to lead across disciplines and grow a team around an important mission.
A thoughtful cover letter will materially strengthen your application. Tell us what you have built, where your technical depth comes from, why you are ready to lead beyond your primary discipline, and how you approach a zero-to-one effort where the team, architecture, and operating model are all taking shape. Applications without a cover letter will still receive consideration, but the letter is the best opportunity to show us the judgment, motivation, and leadership potential that a résumé alone may not capture.
**What Success Looks Like**
- One team, one architecture, one release objective.
- Fast decisions, visible risks, and disciplined execution.
- Integrated, secure, and operational releases delivered with confidence.
- Product vision translated into real capability without losing user intent.
- Technical leaders who grow stronger and more autonomous over time.
- A system the customer can trust, operate, and sustain.
**What We Offer:**
- A fully remote, results-based environment
- Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
- 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
- Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
- Flexible work environment where you manage your work day
- 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave
**Salary Range:** $220,000-$260,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.
We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.
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