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Position: Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Engineer Specialist
Location: Austin, TX - Onsite
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
- Designing, implementing, and maintaining a comprehensive enterprise AI risk management and governance framework. Establishing policies, standards, and approval processes governing AI and advanced analytics use cases.
- Leading or co-chairing an internal AI Governance Council which reviewed, prioritized, and approved AI initiatives.
- Ensuring consistent lifecycle oversight for AI systems from concept and procurement through deployment and retirement.
- Identifying, assessing, monitoring, and mitigating AI-related risks including algorithmic bias, model drift, explainability, data quality issues, cybersecurity vulnerabilities, operational risk, legal exposure and reputational risk.
- Oversight of AI risk assessments, model impact assessments, and control testing activities.
- Establishing escalation, incident response, and remediation protocols for AI-related issues.
- Partnering with Legal, Privacy, Records Management, and Compliance teams to ensure AI systems comply with Texas state laws, federal regulations, public records requirements, privacy protections, and civil rights obligations.
- Monitoring emerging AI-related laws, regulations, and standards and assess their impact on agency operations.
- Serve as a senior advisor to executive leadership on AI governance risk and regulatory readiness.
- Championing ethical AI principles including fairness, accountability, transparency, human oversight, and explainability.
- Ensuring AI use does not result in unfair or opaque regulatory outcomes, particularly in permitting, inspections, and enforcement.
- Supporting mechanisms for public transparency and defensibility where AI contributes to regulatory decisions.
- Collaborating closely with the Information Resources Manager, Deputy Director of Information Resources, Chief Data Officer, Chief Information Security Officer, and program area Directors.
- Influencing enterprise technology and data strategy by embedding AI risk considerations into planning and investment decisions.
- Acting as a trusted executive partner balancing innovation enablement with responsible risk management.
- Developing and delivering executive and workforce training on responsible AI use and risk awareness.
- Promoting a culture of ethical, risk-aware innovation across scientific, regulatory, and administrative teams.
- Providing guidance to program teams on acceptable and prohibited uses of AI technologies.
Salary : $55 - $60