DEFCON AI - Information Extraction Engineer

Remote - USA$130k - $130k+ Equity3w ago

Remote Mid NA Artificial Intelligence Oil & Gas InfoSec Engineer Documentation Python

Requirements

• 3+ years extracting structured facts or data from unstructured, narrative text in a production setting • Experience keeping extracted output traceable to its source • Strong Python, with hands-on NLP or information-extraction tooling, whether rule-based, statistical, or LLM-based • US Citizenship Required • Active US Secret clearance • Extraction experience in a government, investigative, legal, financial-crime, or intelligence-adjacent setting • LLM-based extraction with structured output schemas and validation against source text • Experience where extracted facts fed a downstream matching, scoring, or retrieval system • Active Top Secret clearance • What Success Looks Like • Facts extracted at volume, with every claim traceable to its source passage • Extraction that holds up when a subject-matter expert checks it against the original document • Sustained throughput across new document types without re-deriving the approach for each one

Responsibilities

• Extract structured facts from long, free-text, narrative, and semi-structured documents • Maintain a traceable pointer from every extracted fact back to the exact source passage it came from • Validate that every cited passage actually supports the extracted fact, and treat a missing or unsupported citation as a defect • Distinguish a stated total from a derived sum in financial narratives, retaining the contributing items and the calculation for verification • Consume the recorded rule context supplied to model-assisted extraction, keeping cited facts and uncertainty separate from any validity decision • Handle ambiguous, contradictory, or incomplete source text without forcing a single reading; flag it rather than guessing • Work with entity resolution and retrieval teammates on what a usable extracted fact needs to carry downstream

Benefits

• A fully remote, results-based environment • Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family • Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval • Flexible work environment where you manage your work day • 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave • Salary Range: $130,000—$160,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.