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MITRE · 23 hours ago

Group Leader, AI Safety & Ops Intelligence & Assurance

McLean, VA

Full-time

Hybrid

Director/Executive

$191K/yr - $287K/yr

8+ years exp

MITRE is a not-for-profit corporation focused on tackling the nation's toughest challenges in various fields including cybersecurity and healthcare. They are seeking a Group Leader for the AI Safety & Ops Intelligence & Assurance group to lead efforts in developing AI/ML capabilities for proactive safety and operations monitoring.

Cyber SecurityInformation TechnologyNon ProfitQuantum ComputingSaaS

Responsibilities

Serve as a direct supervisor for 6-10 technical staff advancing continuous and proactive safety and ops monitoring through the development and application of AI/ML capabilities, data science, software engineering

Providing expert guidance and direction as a leader and partner to aid in appropriate staff project/assignment alignment; identify appropriate work opportunities; conduct regular performance and development conversations; prepare performance assessments and development plans; mentor and advocate for staff; provide recognition and facilitate routine home management actions. Actively promote the ability for staff to take charge of their career

Take active leadership role in department business development activities. These include identifying possible opportunities, crowdsourcing ideas, partnering with Department Manager, Outcome Leaders and other influencers within and outside of MITRE, encouraging the department's participation in other opportunities such as grant writing

Take active leadership in setting department and work program strategy, assessing current tools and capabilities for adoption/adaption for new sponsors, assessing alignment of current and future skill needs in conjunction with this strategy, partnering with other leaders across FFRDCs to align strategies and foster the development of new impactful opportunities to deliver on department strategy

Communicate on a regular basis with work leaders on group member performance in order to provide constructive feedback and support career development. Leverage these work leader relationships to match staff competencies with projects and identify stretch assignments to develop new skills

Participate in shaping the group and department’s role in and its delivery on both the Advances Transportation Operations & Safety Division and Center for Integrated Transportation Mission Impact Focus Areas; Contribute to department, division, center, and/or corporate initiatives; Support staff in understanding and navigating administrative procedures and their department, division, center, and corporate mission and strategy; Communicate relevant information to staff; Be an engaged talent-cultivator

Regularly engage with sponsors to drive mission impact

Qualification

AI/MLNatural Language ProcessingData ScienceBusiness DevelopmentTeam BuildingProject LeadershipAgilityMentoringCommunicationCollaboration

Required

Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 8 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 5 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience

Demonstrated experience leading people and projects and being motivated and rewarded by the success and development of others

Demonstrated experience identifying, develop, shaping new work opportunities in alignment with organizational strategy

Substantial technical background with ability to apply new innovations across a range of technical domains applicable to the division

Substantial technical background developing and/or applying AI/ML, time-series forecasting, anomaly detection, and/or Natural Language Processing capabilities and techniques

Demonstrated experience building, retaining, and growing high performance staff and leading teams in potentially disparate locations

Experience in engaging with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Understanding of the FAA mission and capability need areas

Significant exposure to and experience solving mission-oriented challenges of our sponsors

Demonstrated experience mentoring staff in MITRE behaviors: taking risks, being agile, and fast responsiveness to high priority needs

This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site

Preferred

Familiarity with AI assurance concepts

Familiarity with techniques for ensuring the interpretability and explainability of AI models

Understanding of AI ethics, including issues like fairness, transparency, and privacy

Company

MITRE

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The MITRE Corporation is working to solve some of the nation’s biggest challenges in defense, cybersecurity, healthcare, homeland security, the judiciary and transportation.

Founded in 1958

Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

5001-10000 employees