Senior Super Intelligence Architect

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.

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

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.