Senior Super Intelligence Architect

Summary

This position reports directly to the Chief Information Officer at the Department of the Interior. The Senior Super Intelligence Architect serves as the Department's senior technical authority and strategic leader for Super Intelligence (SI).The minimum pay is $151,661 with salary considerations based on the selectee's current salary and other factors. Location negotiable will be any DOI Office.

Duties

The position is located in the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the Department of the Interior (Department) and reports to the Chief Information Officer. The incumbent carries out the following specific responsibilities: 1. Serve as the principal technical advisor to the Department's SI governance bodies. Translate Responsible SI principles and policies into concrete architecture standards, design patterns, and engineering requirements. 2. Develop and maintain a risk-based technical framework for SI use, aligned with the NIST AI Risk Management Framework and applicable OMB guidance. Classify SI use cases by impact, and set minimum practices for those that affect rights, safety, or public trust. 3. Lead the technical portions of pre-deployment and ongoing impact assessments covering safety, bias and fairness, privacy, civil rights and civil liberties, security, environmental cost, and effects on Tribal nations and underserved communities. 4. Design SI systems for meaningful human oversight, traceability, and the ability to intervene in, correct, or shut them down. Define technical escalation, incident response, and decommissioning procedures for SI failures or misuse. 5. Support the Department's SI use-case inventory and promote transparency through plain-language documentation, model and system cards, and audit-ready records. 6. Design appropriate protections for Indigenous data sovereignty, culturally sensitive information, and controlled unclassified information used in or produced by SI systems. 7. Provide technical analysis and evidence to support SI reporting, audits, and oversight requests, and participate in interagency SI technical working groups If your resume does not include these basic qualifications, you will not be determined qualified for this position. We recommend that your resume includes examples that are clear, concise, and emphasize their level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues addressed; and the results of actions taken.

Qualifications

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution. Candidates will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or national origin. To meet the minimum qualifications, you must submit a two-page resume (max) that shows you possess the two Technical Qualifications (TQs). To be considered, only the first 2 pages of your resume will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications. Technical Qualifications (TQs) are designed to assess an applicant's experience relevant to the specific position requirements. Your resume should clearly demonstrate your experience and accomplishments related to the two TQs below: TQ 1: Responsible SI Design and Risk Management: Demonstrated experience designing and putting in place responsible Artificial (Super) Intelligence (SI) practices for complex systems. This includes assessing risk and impact, building in human oversight, transparency, and accountability, and applying federal security, privacy, and civil rights requirements to SI system design. TQ 2: Evaluating, Prototyping, and Architecting Scalable SI Solutions: Demonstrated hands-on experience evaluating SI and machine learning technologies, building working prototypes against mission problems, and designing secure, scalable enterprise architectures that move proven SI capabilities into production across cloud and on-premises environments. Qualifications will be evaluated based on how clearly and concisely you emphasize your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of your programs; services managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues addressed; and the results of your actions taken. Typically, experience will have been gained at the GS-15 or equivalent in the private sector or non-governmental organizations.

Education

There is no positive education requirement for this position.