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Defense and National Security Careers

Explore 5 career paths in the Defense and National Security industry. Compare salaries, AI risk, and future demand to plan your career transition.

5 Roles
9.1 Avg Demand
21% Avg AI Risk
5 Remote-Friendly
AI Engineering Advanced

AI Alignment Engineer

AI Alignment Engineers ensure that advanced AI systems behave in ways that are safe, predictable, and consistent with human values…

Demand 9.4/10
AI Risk 10%
Salary $150,000-$310,000/yr
Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) and reward modelingConstitutional AI and rule-based value specificationAdversarial testing and red-teaming of large language modelsMechanistic interpretability and feature visualization +8
Remote Requires Coding 12mo
AI Legal & Compliance Intermediate

AI Regulatory Intelligence Analyst

An AI Regulatory Intelligence Analyst monitors, decodes, and operationalizes the rapidly evolving global landscape of AI legislati…

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 25%
Salary $95,000-$185,000/yr
Global AI regulatory landscape mapping (EU AI Act, US EO 14110, China AI regulations, OECD AI Principles)AI risk classification and tiered compliance assessmentTechnical AI literacy: understanding model types, training pipelines, bias metrics, and explainabilityLegal and regulatory text analysis with structured annotation frameworks +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo
AI Security & Trust Expert

AI Quantum-Safe Security Specialist

An AI Quantum-Safe Security Specialist protects AI systems, models, and sensitive data against both classical and quantum-enabled …

Demand 9.2/10
AI Risk 15%
Salary $145,000-$285,000/yr
Post-quantum cryptography: ML-KEM (Kyber), ML-DSA (Dilithium), SLH-DSA (SPHINCS+), and hybrid schemesClassical cryptographic foundations: RSA, ECC, AES, TLS, PKI, digital signaturesAI/ML security: adversarial robustness, model poisoning, data poisoning, federated learning privacyQuantum threat modeling: Harvest-Now-Decrypt-Later (HNDL) risk assessment, cryptographic agility planning +8
Remote Requires Coding 18mo
AI Legal & Compliance Advanced

AI Policy Analyst

AI Policy Analysts bridge the gap between rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technologies and the regulatory, ethical, and g…

Demand 9.0/10
AI Risk 25%
Salary $90,000-$170,000/yr
AI and machine learning fundamentals-ability to read model architectures, training pipelines, and evaluation metricsRegulatory framework analysis-deep understanding of EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, OECD AI Principles, and emerging global standardsAI risk assessment-systematic evaluation of AI systems across bias, safety, privacy, transparency, and accountability dimensionsPolicy drafting and legal writing-producing clear, precise, and enforceable policy documents for diverse audiences +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo
AI Security & Trust Intermediate

AI Security News Analyst

An AI Security News Analyst monitors, researches, and reports on emerging threats, vulnerabilities, incidents, and policy developm…

Demand 8.7/10
AI Risk 30%
Salary $95,000-$165,000/yr
AI/ML threat taxonomy (prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, adversarial examples, jailbreaking)Cybersecurity threat intelligence frameworks (MITRE ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF)OSINT collection and source triage across surface web, dark web, and academic channelsTechnical writing and rapid-turnaround brief production under deadline pressure +8
Remote Requires Coding 6mo