Principal AI Engineer, AI Security

About this role

About the role
NSPM-11 directs the national security enterprise to adopt AI fast and assure it across the full stack, down to the data pipeline. That is our home field.

We are hiring a Principal AI Engineer, AI Security to build agentic and mission AI on the Bluestaq platform. You will prove it secure and resilient from design through deployment.

This is a senior individual-contributor role with a player-coach path. You will deliver hands-on now and stand up and lead a small AI team as the work grows. You will be the AI technical authority across the full lifecycle, from shaping bids to assuring what we deliver.

What you'll do

• Serve as the AI Security technical authority on captures and bids. Translate mission-owner AI and AI-security requirements into solutions that win. Build credibility with technical buyers across the IC, DoD, and partners.

• Own AI-assurance/security roadmap for the platform, spanning model security, runtime protection, and threat modeling for AI built on Bluestaq data. Partner with engineering to embed assurance by design.

• Design and assure AI for the environments mission owners operate in, including disconnected, classified, and air-gapped settings where assurance cannot depend on continuous cloud connectivity.

• Threat-model AI systems against the attacks that matter at this level: adversarial inputs, model extraction and distillation, data and supply-chain poisoning, and agentic or tool-use abuse.

• Establish and carry the external voice on secure AI for national security through talks, writing, and demonstrated technical work.

• Ensure delivered AI meets the assurance, TEVV, and supply-chain standards mission owners depend on, so trust drives expansion and renewal.

• Connect AI-security work into Bluestaq's broader AI platform, so evaluation frameworks, model registries, and pipelines serve the whole program instead of a security-only silo.

• Stay ahead of AI/ML advances and bring in the ones that offer real…