Intelligence Pipeline Engineer

Zignal Labs

$90K — $120K *
Technical Services
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active TS/SCI clearance preferred or ability to obtain one
  • 8+ years of experience in operational intelligence environments related to DoD or Intelligence Community
  • Experience optimizing intelligence collection workflows and action-oriented pipelines
  • Strong knowledge of OSINT methodologies and intelligence tradecraft
  • Expertise in Boolean logic and operational tagging systems
  • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts relevant to operational workflows
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills across teams

Responsibilities

  • Design and maintain operational intelligence collection pipelines with real-time monitoring capabilities
  • Independently manage structured datasets and intelligence collection methodologies
  • Develop advanced collection strategies utilizing various analytical techniques
  • Drive improvements in signal quality and data reliability for operational relevance
  • Deploy and optimize AI/ML models within operational intelligence workflows
  • Construct and refine AI-driven alerting systems and workflows
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to enhance operational capabilities

Benefits

  • Fully remote work environment
  • Collaboration with a diverse team across multiple domains
  • Opportunities for professional growth and mentoring
  • Engagement with cutting-edge AI and operational intelligence technologies
  • Contributions to mission-critical operations that enhance national security
Full Job Description
We are seeking an Intelligence Pipeline Engineer to join our growing team. This role blends intelligence tradecraft, operational data engineering, AI-driven workflows, and real-time mission support. This role is designed for professionals who can independently own operational intelligence workflows, drive pipeline optimization efforts, operationalize AI-enabled capabilities, and collaborate cross-functionally to support mission-critical operations. Key Responsibilities • Design, configure, maintain, and optimize operational intelligence collection pipelines supporting real-time monitoring and alerting workflows • Independently build, curate, tune, and manage structured datasets, collection logic, enrichment workflows, and operational intelligence pipelines • Develop and refine advanced collection strategies using Boolean logic, heuristics, metadata enrichment, tagging frameworks, geospatial filtering, and signal scoring methodologies • Drive continuous improvements in signal quality, workflow efficiency, operational relevance, and data reliability • Deploy, evaluate, monitor, and optimize AI/ML and computer vision models supporting operational intelligence workflows • Develop, test, and refine LLM-driven workflows, prompt frameworks, and AI-assisted alerting systems • Support multimodal intelligence workflows integrating text, image, video, metadata, geospatial, and behavioral signals into actionable operational insights • Partner closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Customer Success, and mission stakeholders to operationalize new capabilities and improve workflows • Lead operational troubleshooting, pipeline hardening, workflow optimization, and issue resolution efforts • Identify emerging collection opportunities, platform shifts, operational risks, and regional digital ecosystem changes • Contribute to operational standards, workflow documentation, and best practices for intelligence pipeline engineering • Mentor junior team members supporting operational intelligence workflows • Uphold classification, security, legal, and ethical standards for government-facing operational environments Required Qualifications • Active TS/SCI clearance preferred or ability to obtain and maintain one • 8+ years of experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, defense contractor, or related operational intelligence environments • Experience designing, operating, or optimizing intelligence collection workflows, operational monitoring pipelines, or AI-assisted analytical systems • Strong understanding of OSINT methodologies, operational collection strategies, and intelligence tradecraft • Advanced experience building and refining Boolean logic, heuristic filtering, operational tagging systems, or enrichment workflows • Familiarity with AI/ML concepts including NLP, clustering, anomaly detection, entity extraction, computer vision, or multimodal analysis • Ability to independently manage competing operational priorities in dynamic mission environments • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills Preferred Qualifications • Experience with Python, SQL, APIs, workflow orchestration, or scripting for operational automation and pipeline management • Experience supporting real-time operational monitoring and mission-critical alerting systems • Familiarity with AI-assisted analytical workflows, prompt engineering, or operational LLM integration • Experience collaborating with engineering or product teams to operationalize new capabilities • Experience mentoring analysts or engineers in operational intelligence environments • Familiarity with foreign social media ecosystems and globally distributed information environments relevant to defense missions Locations San Francisco, DC, NY Remote status Fully Remote Yearly salary $90,000 - $120,000 Employment type Full-time

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