Deployment Strategist, Intel (TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Required)

Sitreps•Alexandria, VA

5h•$140,000 - $220,000•Onsite

About The Position

This is a full-time, individual contributor role for an early-stage defense AI company located in Northern Virginia. The Deployment Strategist will be responsible for deploying and ensuring the effectiveness of the company's agentic AI operating system within classified environments for the Intelligence Community and Department of Defense. The role requires deep domain expertise in the customer's mission space, with a significant portion of the time spent building within the platform, configuring agents, designing workflows, and scripting in Python. The strategist will also engage with analysts to map workflows, capture institutional knowledge, and provide hands-on training and coaching to drive platform adoption. This is a technical role focused on mission expertise and platform utilization, not infrastructure or connector management.

Requirements

6+ years as an analyst, operator, or targeteer in the relevant mission space, with direct experience doing the work.
Demonstrated ability to become a power user of complex analytic tooling and to teach it to experienced users.
Working Python proficiency, including scripting and data wrangling, and comfort reading and modifying code.
Practical understanding of AI agent concepts, including prompting, workflow and evaluation design, and where agents fail, or a clear track record of picking up new technical tooling fast.
Strong interviewing and listening skills, with experience eliciting process knowledge from subject matter experts.
Clear written communication.
Willingness to work on client site 80 to 100% of the time in Northern Virginia.
U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph.

Nice To Haves

Experience writing SOPs, tradecraft standards, or training curricula.
Hands-on experience with AI assisted or agentic analytic tooling.
Strong Python skills.
An active professional network in the relevant analytic community.
Working knowledge of IC analytic tradecraft standards (ICD 203, 206, and 208), including expressing analytic confidence, characterizing source reliability, and applying structured analytic techniques.
Experience across the intelligence cycle, from planning and direction through collection, processing and exploitation, analysis and production, and dissemination, including all source fusion and producing finished intelligence.
Experience with IC all source tooling such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, and TIDE, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future.

Responsibilities

Mapping current analyst workflows before platform configuration begins.
Tribal knowledge capture by interviewing experienced analysts and operators to surface SOPs, undocumented practices, and exception to policy patterns.
Encoding captured knowledge into the platform as agents, workflows, and skills, ensuring the output is mission correct and technically valid.
Ensuring agent quality through prompt and workflow design, evaluation, and failure analysis.
Partnering with Forward Deployed Engineers who own connectors, integrations, and infrastructure.
Driving platform adoption through hands-on training and coaching, which is the primary metric for this role.
Acting as the main point of contact for analyst feedback on platform behavior.
Creating reusable workflow documentation to streamline future deployments.

Benefits

Health, dental, and vision insurance (99% of employee premiums covered, 100% of dependent premiums covered).
Optional HSA plan.
Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D (100% company paid).
401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested.
Wellhub Gold membership (access to Gold's Gym, Lifetime, and other studios).
Unlimited PTO.
Every federal holiday, plus additional paid days off over the winter break.
Supportive leave of absence program (military service, medical events, parental leave).
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided daily when in the office.
Pre-tax commuter benefits.
Company phone plan (new iPhone, fully company paid).