Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst, Agentic AI Integration

About the role

Iron EagleX is seeking a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst, Agentic AI Integration to support our AI team in Crystal City, VA. This role will infuse AI-enabled tools and methods into analytic processes to accelerate and improve insights in a repeatable, responsible, and mission-relevant manner. This position requires the ability to translate mission requirements into practical AI-enabled analytic approaches, support adoption across analytic teams, and ensure that AI outputs are validated, explainable, and aligned with established intelligence tradecraft standards.

Meaningful work and personal impact

As a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst, Agentic AI Integration, you will work with analysts, data scientists, software developers, and AI engineers to leverage cutting-edge AI solutions to deliver data analytic products to answer critical questions and requirements.

Job duties

• Integrate AI-enabled capabilities into intelligence analysis workflows to improve research, data discovery, pattern recognition, and reporting.
• Assist analysts in using AI capabilities responsibly, including validation of outputs, source evaluation, confidence assessment, and analytic rigor.
• Work with analysts, data scientists, engineers, and software developers to identify analytic pain points and design practical AI-assisted solutions.
• Evaluate and test AI tools, prompts, workflows, and automation techniques for intelligence use cases.
• Support development of repeatable analytic methodologies that combine subject matter expertise with AI-generated insights.
• Translate mission requirements into use cases for machine learning, natural language processing, entity extraction, knowledge management, link analysis, and data enrichment.
• Develop guidance, standard operating procedures, and best practices for AI-assisted analytic workflows.
• Support analytic production by applying AI-enabled techniques to large volumes of structured and unstructured data.
• Collaborate with technical teams to refine and improve tools and ensure capabilities meet operational requirements.

Required skills

• Experience conducting all-source and multi-discipline intelligence analysis.
• Understanding of intelligence tradecraft, analytic standards, sourcing, confidence levels, and structured analytic techniques.
• Familiarity with using Python for workflow automation in Jupyter notebooks, Streamlit, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with AI, machine learning, automation, data analytics, or natural language processing concepts.
• Ability to evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy, relevance, bias, and mission applicability.
• Experience working with large datasets, analytic platforms, knowledge repositories, or intelligence databases.
• Strong writing, briefing, documentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into practical guidance for non-technical analytic users.

Desired skills

• Experience applying generative AI, LLMs, prompt engineering, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), semantic search, and/or automated data extraction to analytic workflows.
• Experience with Python, SQL, Jupyter notebooks, graph/link-analysis tools, and/or other analytic platforms.
• Familiarity with model evaluation and human-in-the-loop workflows.
• Experience with retrieving data and interacting with services through APIs.
• Experience developing training, playbooks, SOPs, or adoption plans for new analytic tools.

Qualifications

• Current TS/SCI Clearance with current or willingness to obtain CI polygraph.
• 10+ years of related experience.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• This position is onsite in Crystal City, VA and requires travel for 60-90 days to CONUS sites each year.
• Due to US Government Contract Requirements, only US Citizens are eligible for this role.

Pay

The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Schedule

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40. Travel Required: 10-25%. Telecommuting Options: Onsite. Work Location: USA VA Arlington.

Benefits

• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts.
• Dental plan options and vision plan.
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid time off plans including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance.