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Defense and Intelligence Careers

Explore 11 career paths in the Defense and Intelligence industry. Compare salaries, AI risk, and future demand to plan your career transition.

11 Roles
9.1 Avg Demand
17% Avg AI Risk
9 Remote-Friendly
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Zero Trust Architecture Specialist

An AI Zero Trust Architecture Specialist designs and enforces 'never trust, always verify' security frameworks across AI pipelines…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $130,000-$250,000/yr
Zero Trust Architecture design and implementation (NIST SP 800-207)AI/ML model security - securing training, serving, and inference pipelinesIdentity and Access Management (IAM) for AI services and agentsAPI security design including OAuth 2.0, mTLS, and rate limiting for LLM endpoints +8
Remote Requires Coding 10mo
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Insider Threat Detection Specialist

An AI Insider Threat Detection Specialist combines behavioral analytics, machine learning, and cybersecurity expertise to identify…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 18%
Salary $115,000-$235,000/yr
User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) design and tuningMachine learning anomaly detection (Isolation Forest, autoencoders, clustering)Insider threat kill-chain modeling and MITRE ATT&CK mappingSIEM engineering and log aggregation at enterprise scale +8
Remote Requires Coding 9mo
AI Engineering Advanced

AI Forward Deployed Engineer

An AI Forward Deployed Engineer (FDE) embeds directly with enterprise clients to rapidly prototype, customize, and productionize A…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $140,000-$260,000/yr
LLM application development using OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-source model APIsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipeline architecture and optimizationAgentic workflow design using LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, or AutoGenRapid prototyping and full-stack development (Python, TypeScript, React) +8
Requires Coding 9mo
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Threat Intelligence Specialist

An AI Threat Intelligence Specialist monitors, analyzes, and anticipates adversarial threats targeting AI systems - from prompt in…

Demand 9.1/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $125,000-$210,000/yr
Adversarial machine learning (evasion, poisoning, extraction, inversion attacks)LLM security: prompt injection taxonomy, jailbreak analysis, indirect prompt injectionThreat modeling for AI systems using frameworks like MITRE ATLAS and OWASP LLM Top 10Python scripting for adversarial payload generation and detection +8
Remote Requires Coding 10mo
AI Security & Trust Advanced

AI Security Code Review Specialist

An AI Security Code Review Specialist audits source code, model pipelines, and infrastructure configurations for vulnerabilities u…

Demand 9.1/10
AI Risk 18%
Salary $125,000-$210,000/yr
Static application security testing (SAST) on Python, TypeScript, and Go codebasesOWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications - identification, exploitation patterns, and remediationPrompt injection detection, adversarial input crafting, and output sanitization reviewLangChain, LlamaIndex, and agent orchestration framework security assessment +8
Remote Requires Coding 12mo
AI Data & Analytics Intermediate

AI Multimodal Dataset Engineer

An AI Multimodal Dataset Engineer designs, curates, and maintains large-scale datasets that combine text, image, audio, video, and…

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 25%
Salary $95,000-$175,000/yr
Multimodal data schema design (text-image-audio-video alignment and cross-referencing)Large-scale data pipeline engineering with Apache Beam, Spark, or DaskData quality assurance: automated metrics (perplexity filters, CLIP score thresholds, deduplication) and human-in-the-loop workflowsVersion control and provenance tracking for datasets (DVC, LakeFS, Delta Lake) +8
Remote Requires Coding 8mo
AI Security & Trust Intermediate

AI Hallucination Detection Specialist

An AI Hallucination Detection Specialist identifies, measures, and mitigates fabricated or factually incorrect outputs generated b…

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $105,000-$185,000/yr
LLM output evaluation and benchmarking (BLEU, ROUGE, faithfulness scores, custom metrics)Prompt engineering and adversarial prompt design for stress-testing modelsRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architecture understanding and grounding verificationNatural Language Inference (NLI) and entailment-based fact verification +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo
AI Finance & Investment Expert

AI High-Frequency Trading Analyst

An AI High-Frequency Trading Analyst designs, deploys, and continuously optimizes machine-learning-driven trading systems that exe…

Demand 8.8/10
AI Risk 25%
Salary $130,000-$320,000/yr
Market microstructure analysis including order-book dynamics, bid-ask spread modeling, and latency arbitrageDeep learning for time-series: LSTM, Transformer, Temporal Convolutional Network architectures on tick dataReinforcement learning for sequential trading decision optimization under transaction costsFeature engineering on high-dimensional, noisy, non-stationary financial data streams +8
Requires Coding 18mo