Senior AI Governance Analyst

Overview

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior AI Governance Analyst to lead the development implementation and oversight of governance frameworks that ensure our predictive and generative AI systems are safe ethical secure and compliant with federal standards. The Senior AI Governance Analyst will serve as a subject-matter expert across responsible AI policy compliance risk management and AI assurance throughout the lifecycle of AI solutions. This role partners closely with engineers product teams evaluators and client stakeholders to embed governance principles into design development deployment and ongoing operations.

Contributions

• Lead the development and implementation of AI governance frameworks aligned to federal policies NIST AI Risk Management Framework MLSecOps agency-specific guidance and emerging regulatory requirements.
• Drive AI risk identification assessment and mitigation processes ensuring that generative and predictive AI systems adhere to ethical legal and security standards.
• Oversee the creation and maintenance of AI documentation artifacts such as model cards data cards lineage records impact assessments and system risk profiles.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to embed privacy fairness transparency and explainability considerations into the design and operation of AI systems.
• Partner with AI Evaluation Scientists to establish governance-aligned quality thresholds safety checks and ongoing monitoring requirements for model outputs.
• Support compliance activities related to data usage provenance confidentiality prompt injection defense and secure model interaction patterns.
• Develop governance review processes including AI readiness assessments model approval workflows and continuous assurance procedures.
• Conduct research on emerging AI regulatory trends industry standards federal mandates and best practices advising leadership on their implications.
• Communicate governance requirements and findings to diverse audiences ensuring that stakeholders across programs understand risks constraints and recommended controls.
• Mentor junior analysts and contribute to the creation of templates playbooks and reusable assets that strengthen Steampunks AI governance capabilities.
• You will contribute to the growth of our AI & Data Exploitation Practice!

Qualifications

• Ability to hold a position of public trust with the U.S. government.
• Bachelors Masters or Ph.D. in Public Policy Computer Science Law Cybersecurity Data Ethics or a related field.
• 5 years of experience in AI governance risk management data ethics compliance or responsible technology roles.
• Strong understanding of federal policies standards and frameworks related to AI including NIST AI RMF EO 14110 OMB AI guidance MLSecOps privacy law and agency-level directives.
• Demonstrated experience embedding governance controls into AI/ML development workflows including documentation reviews and lifecycle risk management.
• Familiarity with LLMs RAG systems and generative AI architectures and an ability to assess risks across these technologies.
• Experience conducting algorithmic impact assessments model risk assessments or responsible AI reviews.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate governance requirements to engineers product teams executives and government clients.
• Ability to analyze technical systems identify risks and recommend actionable mitigations grounded in policy and best practices.
• Exposure to evaluation techniques fairness assessments transparency documentation or audit processes preferred.
• Experience working in agile environments collaborating across cross-functional teams and driving governance processes independently.

About steampunk

Steampunk relies on several factors to determine salary including but not limited to geographic location contractual requirements education knowledge skills competencies and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $100000 to $160000. The estimate displayed represents a typical annual salary range for this position. Annual salary is just one aspect of Steampunks total compensation package for employees. Learn more about additional Steampunk benefits here.

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Steampunk is a Change Agent in the Federal contracting industry bringing new thinking to clients in the Homeland Federal Civilian Health and DoD sectors. Through our Human-Centered delivery methodology we are fundamentally changing the expectations our Federal clients have for true shared accountability in solving their toughest mission challenges. As an employee owned company we focus on investing in our employees to enable them to do the greatest work of their careers and rewarding them for outstanding contributions to our growth. If you want to learn more about our story visit .

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