AI-Assisted Cyber Analysis Specialist

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Job Title: AI-Assisted Cyber Analysis Specialist Job Category: Information Technology Time Type: Full time Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI Employee Type: Regular Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10% Type of Travel: Continental US * * * The Opportunity: CACI is seeking an AI-Assisted Cyber Analysis Specialist to design and operate governed workflows for large-scale code, configuration, scan-result, and security-artifact triage. This is an applied cyber-analysis role, not a generic data-science position. The specialist will combine security expertise, Python automation, approved AI/ML or agentic workflows, and human validation to accelerate analysis while preserving accuracy, provenance, confidentiality, and reproducibility. This position will provide continuous technical assessment support for full‑time, proactive testing of externally and internally visible federal cyber assets. This expands federal visibility by conducting continual assessments of .gov domains, subdomains, and internet‑facing assets to uncover unknown exposures, validate vulnerabilities, and provide agencies with actionable remediation guidance. This role supports the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) Program’s mission to safeguard and secure cyberspace in an environment where the threat of cyber-attack is continuously growing and evolving and is responsible for enhancing the security, resilience, and reliability of the Nation’s cyber and communications infrastructure. The CDM Program defends the United States (U.S.) Federal Information Technology (IT) networks from cybersecurity threats by providing continuous monitoring sensors (tools), diagnosis, mitigation tools, and associated services to strengthen the security posture of Government networks. Responsibilities: • Design human-in-the-loop AI-assisted workflows to classify, enrich, correlate, summarize, and prioritize large volumes of code, configurations, scan results, findings, evidence, and other cyber artifacts. • Build Python services, tools, APIs, prompts, schemas, retrieval pipelines, and evaluation harnesses using customer-approved model endpoints and data stores. • Integrate deterministic security tools and rules—such as SAST/DAST, Semgrep, YARA, Sigma, SBOM, vulnerability, and configuration results—with AI-assisted triage rather than relying on model output alone. • Measure precision, recall, false-positive and false-negative rates, latency, cost, drift, and analyst time saved; document acceptance thresholds and rollback paths. • Protect sensitive data by enforcing access controls, approved model boundaries, provenance, audit logs, redaction, prompt-injection defenses, and safe handling of untrusted code and artifacts. • Present structured findings and uncertainty to security analysts, support manual validation, and capture analyst feedback for continuous improvement. • Maintain technical documentation, test datasets, model/workflow versions, and reproducible release processes. Qualifications: Required: • U.S. citizenship is required. • The selected candidate must meet eligibility requirements for access to sensitive information and be able to obtain a Public Trust fitness determination (High Risk). • Ability to work in customer-provided remote environments, use customer-approved tools, and comply with rules of engagement, data-handling requirements, evidence controls, deconfliction procedures, and stop-work criteria. • Five or more years of combined cybersecurity analysis, security engineering, software/data engineering, or applied AI/ML experience, including production automation used by analysts or operators. • Strong Python, API, data-processing, testing, and source-control skills; experience handling structured and unstructured technical artifacts at scale. • Practical knowledge of vulnerability assessment, attack paths, source-code or configuration analysis, malware/artifact triage, or security-tool outputs sufficient to validate analytical results. • Experience building and evaluating AI/ML or LLM-assisted workflows with explicit human review, grounding/provenance, structured outputs, and measurable quality controls. • Understanding of AI security risks including data leakage, prompt injection, untrusted content, model hallucination, authorization, auditability, and secure deployment. • Ability to communicate limitations and uncertainty clearly and to produce maintainable technical documentation. Desired: • Experience with agentic workflow frameworks, retrieval-augmented generation, vector search, model evaluation/observability, or secure model gateways in approved enterprise environments. • Experience with Semgrep, CodeQL, YARA, Sigma, SAST/DAST, SBOM, malware-analysis, vulnerability-management, or exposure-management data. • Familiarity with MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, secure AI development, adversarial testing, and AI red-team practices. • AWS/Azure AI and data services, container/Kubernetes, CI/CD, data-lake, Splunk/Elastic, or graph-analytics experience. • Relevant cloud, data, AI/ML, or cybersecurity certifications. - What You Can Expect: A culture of integrity. At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation. An environment of trust. CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers - every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need through a unique flexible time off benefit and have access to robust learning resources to make your ambitions a reality. A focus on continuous growth. Together, we will advance our nation's most critical missions, build on our lengthy track record of business success, and find opportunities to break new ground — in your career and in our legacy. Pay Range : There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications. Our employees value the flexibility at CACI that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives. We offer competitive compensation, benefits and learning and development opportunities. Our broad and competitive mix of benefits options is designed to support and protect employees and their families. At CACI, you will receive comprehensive benefits such as; healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off benefits. Since this position can be worked in more than one location, the range shown is the national average for the position. The proposed salary range for this position is: $90,300-$189,600 CACI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other protected characteristic.