Ethical AI/IV&V Specialist

TekSynap•Reston, VA

28d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking an Ethical AI/IV&V Specialist to support National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Artificial Intelligence (AI) efforts. This specialist will play an important role helping to create technical solutions for multiple AI challenges. TekSynap is a fast-growing high-tech company that understands both the pace of technology today and the need to have a comprehensive well planned information management environment. “Technology moving at the speed of thought” embodies these principles – the need to nimbly utilize the best that information technology offers to meet the business needs of our Federal Government customers. We offer our full-time employees a competitive benefits package to include health, dental, vision, 401K, life insurance, short-term and long-term disability plans, vacation time and holidays. Visit us at www.TekSynap.com . Apply now to explore jobs with us! The safety and health of our employees is of the utmost importance. Employees are required to comply with any contractually mandated Federal COVID-19 requirements. By applying to a role at TekSynap you are providing consent to receive text messages regarding your interview and employment status. If at any time you would like to opt out of text messaging, respond "STOP." As part of the application process, you agree that TekSynap Corporation may retain and use your name, e-mail, and contact information for purposes related to employment consideration.

Requirements

Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility
Bachelor’s degree in AI/ML, Data Science, Ethics in Technology, or a related field; additional years of experience may be substituted.
3+ years of hands-on experience in AI/ML system validation, assurance, or responsible AI frameworks.
Proficiency in Python for building analysis scripts, validation pipelines, and reporting tools.
Experience conducting model evaluations, fairness audits, and compliance assessments.
Understanding of IV&V methodologies, bias detection techniques, and ethical risk assessment frameworks.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in AI/ML, Data Ethics, or a related discipline.
Experience with: Bias/fairness metric design and ethical AI risk frameworks (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework).
Building IV&V pipelines and model governance dashboards in NGA CORE or similar NGA/Intelligence Community (IC) secure data environments.
Contributing to or leveraging open-source responsible AI or audit frameworks.
Familiarity with geospatial data governance, data curation, and lineage enforcement.

Responsibilities

AI Compliance & Governance Oversee compliance and governance of AI products, ensuring alignment with governance frameworks and risk controls (e.g., NGA CORE data policies, IC/Department of Defense standards).
Design automated workflows for continuous validation of model compliance and governance performance, suitability, and mission alignment.
Establish structured model documentation (model/data cards, methodology, hyperparameters, evaluation metrics) to support explainability, auditability, and accreditation packages.
Fairness Audits & Bias Documentation Develop and apply fairness, bias, and ethical risk assessment metrics across multi-modal GEOINT datasets and models.
Document and maintain bias findings, mitigation plans, and risk tags as part of official system records.
Conduct impact assessments on underrepresented classes, operational edge cases, and potential disparate outcomes in model outputs.
Ethical Risk Tagging & Monitoring Implement risk tagging frameworks within the model registry to track ethical considerations, potential AI deception risks, and transparency compliance.
Build monitoring dashboards and alerts for bias, drift, and ethical risk triggers that may require model retraining or re-accreditation.
Provide transparent ethical risk reporting to IT Security, ATO authorities, and mission stakeholders.