AI Subject Matter Expert
Search Results · Chantilly, VA
$128,000–$270,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Chantilly, VA
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
This is a Technical SETA (Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance) role supporting government intelligence community clients, focused on artificial intelligence subject matter expertise. The position involves advising on frontier AI models, adversarial/counter-AI research, and emerging AI domains, with work spanning IC components such as NSA and Cybercom. It suits a deeply credentialed AI researcher or practitioner with a graduate degree and significant post-graduate experience in the IC environment.
Senior level · 5+ years · Master's required · TS/SCI clearance · Full-time
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Why we read it this way (10)
The job title is 'AI Subject Matter Expert' in a Technical SETA capacity — this is an advisory/consulting role for government IC clients rather than a hands-on data science or software development position. 15-2051 (Data Scientists) is the closest available code given the AI/ML research focus, but 15-1299 (Computer Occupations, All Other) is a plausible alternative given the advisory nature of the work.
Location is not specified in the posting. Given the TS/SCI with polygraph requirement and the named IC clients (NSA, Cybercom), the role is almost certainly in the Washington DC / Northern Virginia / Maryland area, but this cannot be confirmed from the text alone.
The clearance requirement is explicitly stated as 'ACTIVE TS/SCI w/ Poly' — this is a hard gate.
A Master's or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a closely related field is listed as a hard requirement (item 1 under 'Required'). Degree requirement is set to Masters as the minimum.
The '5+ years post-graduate technical expertise in AI' is a role-level experience requirement, not tied to a specific named technology, and is captured in the overall years minimum.
Skills such as 'frontier AI models', 'adversarial AI', and 'open-source AI models' are conceptual research domains rather than discrete named tools, but they are the primary technical gates explicitly listed under Required and are included as skills to reflect the posting's hard requirements.
Commercial frontier AI research lab experience (4+ years) and project management/systems engineering experience (3+ years) appear under 'Desired' and are marked as preferred accordingly.
The salary range of $128,000–$270,000 is unusually wide, likely reflecting the range across seniority levels or clearance levels that DCCA may consider.
Ignored 3 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): open-source AI models, project management, systems engineering.
Requires a TS/SCI clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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