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AI Governance Lead
Job at a glance
- Category
- AI Governance
- Work arrangement
- On-site
- Location
- Columbia, MD
- Salary range
- $148,300 to $266,900
- Posted
- Nov 8, 2026
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Parsons is hiring a AI Governance Lead in Columbia, MD. This is a AI Governance job in the governance, risk, and compliance field, with a posted range of $148,300 to $266,900. Review the full details below and apply directly with Parsons.
Parsons is hiring an AI Governance Lead to support the Chief AI Officer at U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM). The lead designs and runs the command's internal AI governance, from frameworks and oversight mechanisms to the AI governance review boards, project intake and lifecycle decision points, and its alignment with U.S. Government and Department of War AI governance directives. The job works with the AI Policy Lead, technical teams, legal counsel and operational directorates, and writes the governance charters and briefings that senior military and civilian leaders use. Maryland field location, listed in the posting's data as Columbia, MD. Full time, on site.
Required: bachelor's degree in engineering or a related technical or business field with 15+ years of related experience and prior project management experience; deep knowledge of U.S. Government and Department of War governance structures for AI or advanced technology; an active Top Secret/SCI clearance with polygraph.
Preferred: 10+ years in institutional governance, program oversight, operational management or compliance, ideally in defense or national security; a degree in public administration, public policy, organizational management, information systems, law or AI.
Salary range: $148,300 to $266,900. Part of Parsons Federal Solutions. Requisition R186477.
Full responsibilities and requirements are on Parsons's application page.
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This job is based in Columbia, MD on-site. Local candidates benefit from being close to Parsons's teams and regional hiring market. Confirm the exact in-office expectation and any relocation support with the employer.
About AI governance jobs
AI governance sits at the intersection of policy, risk, and engineering. Teams are standing up model inventories, use-case intake and review, risk classification, and control monitoring as regulation and board scrutiny of AI intensify. Jobs like this one are typically evaluated against frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, and internal model-risk and privacy practices.
How to position yourself for this AI governance job
Strong candidates emphasize experience translating policy into operational controls, working across legal, compliance, security, product, and data teams, documenting AI system risks, and supporting governance processes. In your resume and outreach, tie your experience to how Parsons would apply NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, the EU AI Act, and internal model-risk and privacy practices, and lead with concrete outcomes rather than duties.
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