Deployment Strategist (TS/SCI Clearance Required)

Sitreps•Arlington, VA

10h•$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 Arlington, Virginia. The Deployment Strategist will be responsible for acting as the mission expert on field teams, ensuring the company's agentic harness, deployed in classified environments within the Intelligence Community and the Department of Defense, produces work that meets mission standards. This involves mapping how analysts and operators actually work, capturing institutional knowledge, and encoding it into the platform as agents, workflows, and skills. The role requires genuine domain expertise in the customer's mission space and involves building in the platform daily by configuring agents, building workflows, and scripting in Python. The Deployment Strategist is accountable for the platform's adoption and is expected to develop depth in AI agent design, prompting, and evaluation. The role is client-facing, requiring 80-100% on-site presence in Arlington, Virginia, with periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel. The role reports to the engagement lead and works alongside Forward Deployed Engineers.

Requirements

4+ 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 Arlington, Virginia, plus periodic CONUS and OCONUS travel to supported units.
U.S. citizenship and an active TS/SCI clearance.

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.
Experience supporting a J2 or joint or component intelligence staff, including JIPOE and the targeting cycle (Joint Targeting Cycle and F2T2EA).
Experience across the intelligence cycle and all source fusion, from collection through finished production and targeting support.
Experience with DoD and J2 intelligence tooling such as i2 Analyst's Notebook, MARS/MIDB, PROTON, ArcGIS Pro, TAC, FADE/MIST, VOLTRON, and OSINT platforms such as Babel Street, Maltego, Dataminr, or Recorded Future.

Responsibilities

Mapping current analyst workflows before platform configuration begins.
Tribal knowledge capture through interviews with experienced analysts and operators to surface SOPs, undocumented practices, and exception to policy patterns.
Encoding captured mission knowledge into the platform as agents, workflows, and skills, ensuring mission correctness and technical validity of the output.
Ensuring agent quality through prompt and workflow design, evaluation, and failure analysis to make agent output reliable.
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.
Serving 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 dependents' 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 various gyms and studios).
Unlimited PTO.
Paid federal holidays plus additional paid days off over winter break.
Supportive leave of absence program (military service, medical events, parental leave).
Daily breakfast, lunch, and snacks when in the office.
Pre-tax commuter benefits.
Company phone plan (new iPhone, fully company paid).