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Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Hybrid
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Every organization runs on intelligence: years of accumulated knowledge, decisions, and context. As AI takes on more of that work, companies face a choice: rent that intelligence from vendors who keep the data, the context, and the results, or own it.
OpenTeams exists to make ownership possible.
Founded by Travis Oliphant, creator of NumPy and SciPy, and built by people with deep roots across the open-source ecosystem, including NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch, and Jupyter, we help enterprises and governments build AI they control, govern, and evolve themselves.
If that sounds like your kind of work, we'd like to meet you.
Location: Washington, DC; Denver, CO; or Colorado Springs, CO preferred (hybrid). Highly qualified candidates outside these locations may also be considered for unclassified work.
Work Authorization: U.S. citizenship required
Clearance: An active TS/SCI clearance with CI polygraph is strongly preferred. Candidates without an active clearance may be considered for unclassified work but must be eligible to obtain and maintain a U.S. security clearance.
Salary Range: $145,000–$250,000 USD, dependent on experience level and location
We're looking for a SRE/DevSecOps Engineer to build and own the secure delivery pipeline for an AI/ML platform deployed into tightly controlled environments. This is a role for someone who treats security as something you build into the delivery path, not something you inspect for at the end of it.
You own the supply chain end to end — pipelines that produce hardened, signed release artifacts with a software bill of materials attached, with scanning, policy enforcement, and secrets handling built into the path rather than bolted alongside it. That path has to survive promotion into isolated and limited-connectivity environments, which means it works when the network doesn't and can prove what it shipped when nobody can reach back to check. It also has to produce the compliance evidence — audit and accreditation artifacts that fall out of the build automatically instead of getting assembled by hand under deadline.
Reliability comes with the territory. Once the platform is deployed, you're part of keeping it healthy: observability, alerting, and incident response are shared work on this team, and the person who built the release path is usually the one who can tell you what changed.
The engineers who do well here have worked inside a formal compliance framework and know the difference between a pipeline that passes a security review and one that produces the review. Experience packaging or promoting software into air-gapped or otherwise disconnected environments matters a lot — it's the part that's hardest to learn on the fly.
This position is contingent upon contract award. Travel of up to 15% may be required, primarily to Government facilities and between company locations. Unclassified work may be performed remotely, while classified promotion and validation activities require onsite work in an accredited facility and the appropriate security clearance.
What We Offer
At OpenTeams, growth isn’t just about the company—it’s about you.
We believe the best careers are built at the edge of your potential. That is where new tools, ideas, and technologies change the world. Here, you’ll work alongside pioneers of AI, solving problems that matter: making AI more transparent, more ethical, and more empowering. As your skills grow, our career framework provides a pathway and recognition of that increased impact.
Opportunities aren’t limited by geography. You’ll collaborate with global experts, contribute to open source projects that power the world’s technology, and stretch your skills daily. That global perspective and diversity makes our solution more universal and robust. We are committed to continuing to celebrate diversity on our team.
Supported people are successful people. We offer 100% employer paid medical premiums for employees and self-managed PTO with a minimum time off requirement, so that our teams are able to do their best work.
We invest in curiosity, creativity, and ownership. That means you’ll be trusted to boldly innovate, supported to learn fast, and celebrated for successful collaboration.
OpenTeams understands that valuing diverse creative practices and forms of knowledge is crucial to and enriches the company’s core mission. We encourage applications from everyone, including members of all equity-seeking communities, such as (but certainly not limited to) women, racialized and Indigenous persons, disabled people, persons of all sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
We are an equal opportunity employer - all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for recruitment, interviews, employment, training, compensation, promotion, and related activities. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, color, national origin, pregnancy, ancestry, domestic partner status, disability, sexual orientation, age, genetic predisposition, medical condition, marital status, citizenship status, military or veteran status, or any other basis covered by applicable laws. OpenTeams will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on these characteristics or any other unlawful behavior, conduct, or purpose.
