AI Governance Analyst

About the role

Steampunk is seeking an AI Governance Analyst to operationalize a compliant AI governance capability for a large federal client, translating federal AI policy into day-to-day processes and maintaining the program's AI use case inventory and risk tracking.

• Operationalize an AI Governance Framework, translating federal guidance (Executive Orders, OMB directives, agency guidance) into governance processes, checklists, and workflows
• Build and maintain an AI Use Case Inventory categorized by solution type, lifecycle stage, and risk tier — capturing accountable owner, human-override model, and failure response for each use case — supporting assessment of use cases and clearance of production
• Support development and maintenance of governance documentation artifacts such as model cards, system documentation, and risk assessments
• Maintain a living Mandate Compliance Matrix, AI governance dashboards, and an incident/issue tracker, including OKR and token-usage tracking
• Support the AI Compliance and Risk Management Plan, addressing bias identification/monitoring, data handling/retention, safeguards against unauthorized access, and non-discrimination confirmation (Title VII, ADA, ADEA)
• Support periodic audits of deployed/production AI use cases to confirm continued compliance
• Monitor policy trends and regulatory updates to keep governance processes current with evolving federal AI requirements
• Contribute to reusable governance templates, checklists, and tools supporting program-wide consistency
• Support agency responses to oversight data calls and draft agency-specific AI policy at client request
• Document minimum annual mission value and deliver quarterly portfolio prioritization recommendations (scale,