We're an AI-forward team: you'll use AI agents and modern ML tooling to work at greater scale than traditional methods allow, with your technical judgment governing every output. We are hiring an AI-Native Systems Architect to partner directly with and report to the Chief Build Officer. You will lead a team of engineers who are operationalizing AI tools to build a platform that helps the U.S. government detect, characterize, and attribute emerging biological threats. The work is less about writing code and more about defining system boundaries, structuring agent context, and designing the telemetry and human-in-the-loop guardrails for autonomous systems running asynchronous workflows. You will be responsible for critical resource allocation, architectural trade-off decisions, and acting as a technical force multiplier for a highly efficient team.