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Defense and Government Careers

Explore 4 career paths in the Defense and Government industry. Compare salaries, AI risk, and future demand to plan your career transition.

4 Roles
9.1 Avg Demand
15% Avg AI Risk
4 Remote-Friendly
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Penetration Testing Automation Specialist

An AI Penetration Testing Automation Specialist designs, builds, and operates intelligent systems that autonomously discover, vali…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $120,000-$210,000/yr
Network and web application penetration testing (OWASP, PTES, NIST 800-115)LLM and prompt injection attack methodology (indirect prompt injection, jailbreaking, data exfiltration via AI)Python scripting for security automation and exploit developmentAI agent orchestration using LangChain, LangGraph, or CrewAI for multi-step attack simulation +8
Remote Requires Coding 12mo
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Blue Team Automation Specialist

An AI Blue Team Automation Specialist designs, builds, and operates automated defense systems that protect AI infrastructure, LLM-…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $120,000-$210,000/yr
Adversarial machine learning fundamentals (evasion, poisoning, extraction, inference attacks)LLM security: prompt injection detection, jailbreak taxonomy, output filteringSecurity automation and orchestration (SOAR) for AI-specific alertingPython development for building custom detection and response tooling +8
Remote Requires Coding 9mo
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Incident Response Automation Specialist

An AI Incident Response Automation Specialist designs, deploys, and operates automated systems that detect, triage, contain, and r…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $135,000-$245,000/yr
Adversarial machine learning attack and defense techniquesAI model monitoring and observability (drift detection, performance degradation)Automated incident triage and runbook orchestrationPrompt injection detection and mitigation for LLM-based systems +8
Remote Requires Coding 12mo
AI Engineering Intermediate

AI Sandbox Engineer

An AI Sandbox Engineer designs, builds, and maintains isolated, secure environments where AI models, agents, and workflows can be …

Demand 8.7/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $105,000-$185,000/yr
Containerization and orchestration for ephemeral AI environments (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm)Infrastructure-as-Code for reproducible sandbox provisioning (Terraform, Pulumi)AI model evaluation frameworks and benchmarking (LM Evaluation Harness, Promptfoo, EleutherAI lm-eval)Prompt injection detection and adversarial testing methodology +8
Remote Requires Coding 8mo