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Defcon AI
Defcon AI develops AI-driven software for logistics, transportation, and supply chain operations. Its technology combines software modeling and intelligent agents to help organizations plan and respond to disruptions caused by natural disasters, unexpected events, and contested conditions. Working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, mobility, and logistics, the company collaborates with partners to deliver data-driven tools designed to improve operational resilience, decision-making, and response efficiency.

Information Extraction Engineer – Remote in Virginia

Extract and validate cited facts from complex documents for DEFCON AI’s resilient AI optimization platform. Use Python and NLP tools in a secure government cloud environment.

Description

  • Extract structured facts from long-form, narrative, free-text, and semi-structured documents
  • Link every extracted fact to the precise passage supporting it
  • Verify that each citation supports its associated fact, treating missing or unsupported citations as defects
  • Separate stated totals from sums derived from financial narratives, preserving source items and calculations for review
  • Use recorded rule context in model-assisted extraction while keeping citations and uncertainty distinct from validity decisions
  • Apply and expand the team’s established extraction methodology consistently across document types
  • Identify ambiguous, conflicting, or incomplete source text and flag it without forcing an interpretation
  • Collaborate with entity resolution and retrieval teams to define the information downstream systems require from extracted facts
  • Produce high-volume fact extraction with every claim traceable to its source passage
  • Maintain throughput across new document types without rebuilding the extraction methodology each time

Requirements

  • At least 3 years of production experience extracting structured facts or data from unstructured, narrative text
  • Experience maintaining traceability between extracted output and source material
  • Strong Python skills and hands-on experience with NLP or information-extraction tools, including rule-based, statistical, or LLM approaches
  • US citizenship required
  • Active US Secret clearance
  • Preferred: Experience extracting information in government, investigative, legal, financial-crime, or intelligence-related settings
  • Preferred: Experience with LLM-based extraction, structured output schemas, and validation against source text
  • Preferred: Experience supplying extracted facts to downstream matching, scoring, or retrieval systems
  • Preferred: Active Top Secret clearance

Benefits

  • Fully remote, results-oriented work environment
  • Salary, bonus, and equity package
  • Employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
  • Unlimited paid time off with manager approval
  • Flexible schedule and autonomy over the workday
  • 14 weeks of fully paid parental leave

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