Artificial Intelligence Subject Matter Expert (CBP)

• Model performance gets validated against real operational conditions, not only against a clean benchmark dataset.
• Where a model is wrong, you can say how it is wrong and how often, rather than reporting a single accuracy number and stopping there.
• You can explain a model's behavior to someone who did not build it, in terms they can evaluate.
• Model behavior gets monitored after deployment, not just validated once before it.
• Drift and degraded performance get caught before they change an operational outcome.
• Failure modes are documented and understood before a model goes live, not discovered afterward.
• Documentation and evidence for a security or accreditation review come out of your normal development process.
• You can tell an engineering team early what an AI capability will need to clear review, before they have built around an assumption that will not survive it.
• Reviewers get a straight answer about what a model does and does not do.
• Other engineers and program staff come to you before committing to an AI approach, not after it has already been built.
• Where AI is not the right tool for a problem, you can say so and be heard.
• Standards for evaluating and deploying models exist and get used on the next project, not reinvented each time.

• You have taken a machine learning model from prototype to a production system that real people depended on.
• You have worked in a regulated or federal environment where a model's decisions had to be explainable and defensible, not only accurate.
• You have caught a model failure before it reached a decision that mattered, and can describe how.
• You are comfortable across the model lifecycle: data, training, validation, deployment, and monitoring, rather than specialized in only one stage.
• You hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.
• You can talk about the limits of a model as clearly as you talk about its capabilities.

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