Senior Super Intelligence Architect @ Office of the Secretary of the Interior

Job Summary

This Senior Level (SL) position is located within the Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of the Assistant Secretary - Policy, Management and Budget (AS-PMB), Office of the Chief Information Officer. The Senior Super Intelligence Architect serves as DOI's senior-most technical authority on the engineering, architecture, and lifecycle development of advanced Super Intelligence (SI) systems. Location negotiable will be any DOI Office.

Qualifications

All qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement-11/05/2026-unless otherwise stated in this vacancy announcement. This position also requires a special qualification that has been determined to be essential to perform the duties and will be used as a screen out element. If you do not provide evidence that you possess the following selective factor(s), you will be rated not qualified. Experience serving as the lead technical authority responsible for the architecture, engineering, implementation, or technical governance of enterprise-scale Super Intelligence or Machine Learning solutions within a large, complex organization.

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 Super (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 (e.g., NIST AI Risk Management Framework, NIST RMF/SP 800-53, FedRAMP, Privacy Act) 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 (AWS and/or Microsoft Azure) 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. Volunteer Experience: Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Major Duties

• The position leads enterprise-scale SI engineering and architecture; conducts deep technical assessments of emerging Super Intelligence (SI) technologies; develops Departmental SI engineering standards; and ensures secure, responsible integration of SI with DOI's IT, cybersecurity, and data ecosystems.
• The incumbent works closely with the Chief Super Intelligence Officer (CAIO), the Chief Information Officer (CIO), the Chief Data Officer (CDO), cybersecurity leadership, bureau technical teams, and enterprise architecture governance bodies.
• The incumbent carries out the following specific responsibilities: 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 requirement 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Provide technical analysis and evidence to support SI reporting, audits, and oversight requests, and participate in interagency SI technical working groups.
• Build and maintain Department evaluation benchmarks, test datasets, and red-teaming practices grounded in Interior mission scenarios rather than vendor claims alone.
• Lead SI prototyping efforts that rapidly design and builds working prototypes, proofs of concept, and reference implementations against high-value mission problems with bureau partners.
• Build, prototype, and review code and system designs to demonstrate how SI capabilities and responsible SI controls work in practice.
• Define and maintain the Department's target-state SI reference architecture, aligned with the DOI Enterprise Architecture and spanning AWS, Azure, and on-premises environments.
• Partner with the Chief Data Officer to ensure SI systems are built on high-quality, well-governed, authoritative data, with clear lineage, data rights, and privacy protections.
• Work with the CISO and Authorizing Officials to integrate SI into security authorization processes and to address SI-specific threats in a practical, engineering-driven way.
• National Security Clearance: This position requires the ability to obtain a national security clearance and access to Top Secret classified documents, information, or access to facilities.
• A critical-sensitive background investigation is required.
• This position is subject to random drug testing as a condition of employment.
• Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test is received.
• You may be required to travel overnight away from home up to 1-2 nights per month.
• You must obtain a government charge card for travel purposes.

Salary range starting at $151,661 - $228,000 Your Salary will be based on the duty station location selected at time of appointment. This position is also open to status candidates under announcement OCIO-0007-SL-DMW. You must apply to each announcement separately if you wish to be considered under both recruitment methods. 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

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Appointment subject to background investigation and favorable adjudication. Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. Direct Deposit participation required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more, visit www.dhs.gov/EVerify/. You cannot hold an active real estate license, nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Lands. Pre-employment and random drug testing are required.

You will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test is received. A financial disclosure report will be required within 30 days of appointment. You are required to complete training, obtain and maintain a government credit card with travel and purchase authority. As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary period during which your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest will be evaluated.

This probationary period is an extension of the appointment process and therefore requires the agency to determine if continued employment would advance the public interest, meet the organization goals and mission of the agency, and/or otherwise promote the efficiency of the service. In determining if your employment advances the public interest, the agency will consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.

Under applicable law, the employment of an individual serving a probationary or trial period automatically terminates when that period ends unless the agency affirmatively certifies, in writing, that the individual's employment should continue and that their appointment should be finalized. In the absence of agency action to affirmatively certify continued employment beyond the probationary or trial period, such appointments are terminated. Upon completion of your probationary your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.