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
This position does not allow substituting education for experience.
This position is with Office of the Secretary of the Interior, Department of the Interior.
The posted pay range is $151661 – $228000/yr.
This position is eligible for telework.
This position requires a Top Secret security clearance.
Applications close on 2026-11-05.
This position is open under the 'Fed Transition' hiring path.
Source: USAJOBS.gov — U.S. Federal Government · Retrieved 2026-10-22 · Not affiliated with or endorsed by OPM or USAJOBS.gov
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