Facility Security Officer (AI)

Location: On-site in Washington, D.C., United States; occasional travel to other Cognition offices and customer sites is required.

Company

Cognition builds Devin, an AI software engineer, and develops AI systems for real-world tasks and federal customers.

What you will do

• Serve as the appointed Facility Security Officer under 32 CFR Part 117 and establish, maintain, and administer the facility clearance with DCSA.
• Manage the personnel security clearance lifecycle, including investigations, adjudications, reinvestigations, continuous vetting, indoctrinations, and debriefings.
• Establish the insider threat program as ITPSO and manage required training, monitoring, and reporting.
• Prepare for DCSA vulnerability assessments and annual self-inspections, then drive remediation and continuous readiness.
• Develop security education, classified information safeguarding, visit authorization, classified meeting, courier, and closed-area procedures.
• Partner with federal sales, engineering, legal, people operations, IT, and security engineering on contract execution, clearance forecasting, classified work, and CUI controls.

Requirements

• Active U.S. Government security clearance at TS/SCI level.
• At least 5 years of industrial security experience under the NISP, including at least 2 years as an appointed FSO or Assistant FSO at a cleared defense contractor or technology company.
• FSO Program Management for Possessing Facilities certification, or Non-Possessing certification with willingness to complete the Possessing curriculum, plus current ITPSO training.
• Hands-on proficiency with DISS, NISS, NBIS/eQIP, and SF-86 processing.
• Working knowledge of 32 CFR Part 117, SEAD 4, SEAD 3 reporting, DD Form 254 administration, DCSA reviews, self-inspections, and remediation.
• Strong written communication skills and the ability to work on-site in Washington, D.C.

Nice to have

• Experience establishing an FCL or security program at a startup or company entering the federal market.
• ISP certification, CDSE FSO curriculum completion, or experience with SCI/SAP security programs as CSSO or CPSO.
• Experience supporting software or cloud companies pursuing FedRAMP, DoD IL5/IL6, or classified cloud deployments.

Culture & Benefits

• High-ownership role defining security processes, tooling, and culture from the ground up.
• Work across federal programs, customers, facilities, and classification levels in a fast-moving environment.
• Security is positioned as an enabler for the mission and federal business rather than a bottleneck.
• Equal opportunity employer committed to reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.