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Deployment Strategist, Intel (TS/SCI with CI Polygraph Required)

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Location
Northern Virginia
Posted
1 month ago
Department
Defense Tech
Salary
$140,000 to $220,000
What they actually want (must-haves)
  • 6+ years as an analyst, operator, or targeteer in the relevant mission space, with direct experience doing the work.
  • Demonstrated ability to become a power user of complex analytic tooling and to teach it to experienced users.
  • Working Python proficiency, including scripting and data wrangling, and comfort reading and modifying code.
  • Practical understanding of AI agent concepts, including prompting, workflow and evaluation design, and where agents fail, or a clear track record of picking up new technical tooling fast.
  • Strong interviewing and listening skills, with experience eliciting process knowledge from subject matter experts.
  • Clear written communication.
Nice to have
  • Experience writing SOPs, tradecraft standards, or training curricula.
  • Hands-on experience with AI assisted or agentic analytic tooling.
  • Strong Python.
  • An active professional network in the relevant analytic community.
  • Working knowledge of IC analytic tradecraft standards (ICD 203, 206, and 208), including expressing analytic confidence, characterizing source reliability, and applying structured analytic techniques.
What the job really is

As a Deployment Strategist, you will work closely with field teams to ensure the successful deployment of an AI platform in classified environments. Your responsibilities include mapping analyst workflows, capturing institutional knowledge, configuring agents, and scripting in Python. You will also engage with analysts for training and feedback, driving platform adoption as a key metric of success.

Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance. 99% of your premiums covered, and 100% of your dependents' premiums.
  • Optional HSA plan. Lower premium, HSA eligible, fully portable, self directed or managed.
  • Health Reimbursement Account for qualified healthcare expenses.
  • Life insurance of $150,000 plus AD&D, 100% company paid.
  • 401(k) with a 100% match on the first 6%, immediately vested. No cliff, no waiting period. Yours from day one.
  • Wellhub Gold. Everything from Gold's Gym to Lifetime, fully covered, plus [solidcore], F45, and hundreds of other studios.
Things to weigh
  • Role requires significant on-site presence with no remote or hybrid work options.
  • Position is highly technical, focusing on platform building rather than traditional training or project management roles.
  • Candidates must have a strong domain expertise in the relevant mission space, which may limit the applicant pool.
  • The role is an individual contributor position, not a management role, which may not appeal to all candidates.
Job score4.6/5
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Freshness4/5
Career value4/5
Role clarity5/5
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