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Mission Architect

Arlington, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-02 → 2026-09-27

Core

Senior domain expert embedded on a product team to translate complex operational workflows, constraints, and edge cases into clear product requirements, acceptance criteria, and user experiences for offensive cyber operations tools.

Role type

Senior IC Mission Architect (Cyber Operations)

Builds

User-facing software tools for offensive cyber operations, intelligence analysis, and capability acquisition

Domain

Cybersecurity / Intelligence / Defense

Deliverable

product features

Required skills

Cyber operations practice, translating operational workflows to product requirements, defining acceptance criteria, cross-functional collaboration, stakeholder communication, evaluation design, user experience design

Preferred skills

AI/ML product experience, agentic systems, LLM workflows, knowledge graphs, operational test and evaluation, doctrine creation

Technologies

LLM-driven workflows, agentic systems, knowledge graph applications, evaluation tooling, scenario libraries

Responsibilities

Translate complex user workflows and constraints into requirements and user stories; Partner with Product Managers to shape PRDs and refine scope; Define and refine acceptance criteria for operational validation; Run end-to-end scenarios to surface usability issues and workflow gaps; Review features before release for operational correctness; Design evaluation scenarios and benchmark workflows; Shape information architecture and interface behavior; Support customer conversations and demonstrations; Surface emerging user needs and deployment opportunities

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