About the Role
The AI Governance Analyst acts as a subject matter expert across AI governance, risk management, compliance monitoring, and AI Incident response. The role requires the ability to manage moderately sized processes, coach lower-level professionals, and operate with minimal oversight. The ideal candidate demonstrates strong analytical capabilities, cross-functional influence, and the ability to integrate regulatory, technical, operational, and risk elements into unified governance practices.
Responsibilities
- Support execution and continuous improvement of the AI governance lifecycle, ensuring proper identification, assessment, approval, monitoring, and retirement of AI use cases.
- Monitor evolving global AI regulations, standards, and industry best practices, assess compliance impacts, and recommend process updates.
- Perform compliance monitoring and control testing for AI governance controls, evaluating design and operating effectiveness.
- Manage documentation requirements such as model cards, impact assessments, risk assessments, testing evidence, and approval records.
- Coordinate and perform third-party AI governance assessments related to service provider compliance and control adequacy.
- Support the full AI Incident Response lifecycle across detection, triage, analysis, containment, mitigation, validation, closure, and after-action review.
- Facilitate technical investigative activities including model behavior analysis, dataset lineage review, adversarial prompt investigation, and model drift analysis.
- Maintain and improve AI incident response playbooks, severity models, communication cadences, and escalation pathways.
- Partner with Cybersecurity, Legal, Privacy, Data Governance, Safety, and other enterprise incident response teams to ensure coordinated cross-policy handling and escalation.
- Develop and report on KPIs across AI governance and incident response functions to leadership.
- Prepare executive-ready communications related to incident status, risks, findings, and recommended actions.
- Influence stakeholders across Legal, Compliance, Cybersecurity, Engineering, and Business Units to ensure consistent interpretation and implementation of AI governance requirements.
- Contribute to the enhancement of AI governance policies, standards, and operational processes.
- Lead after-action reviews for lower-severity AI incidents and drive corrective actions to closure.
- Provide thought leadership by monitoring emerging AI risks, threats, and operational practices, proactively recommending program improvements.
Requirements
- University degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related STEM or technical field with 8+ years prior relevant experience, or an advanced degree with 5+ years of experience.
- 3+ years experience in AI governance, AI/ML systems, incident response, risk management, compliance, digital governance, or cybersecurity.
- 3+ years experience and understanding of AI risks, AI control frameworks, governance processes, and regulatory expectations.
- 3+ years experience leading cross-functional technical investigations or governance processes with minimal oversight.
- 3+ years in risk advisory, compliance, cybersecurity, governance, or audit roles.
- Familiarity with AI Governance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, ISO 42001, or similar.
- Experience with policy development, process design, and control testing.
- Ability to communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership.
- Strong analytical and investigative skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-variable issues at enterprise scale.
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the company’s immigration sponsorship now or in the future.
- The company will not offer immigration sponsorship for this position.
- The company will not seek an export authorization for this role.
Skills
- AI governance
- AI/ML systems
- Incident response
- Risk management
- Compliance
- Digital governance
- Cybersecurity
- AI risks
- AI control frameworks
- Governance processes
- Regulatory expectations
- Cross-functional technical investigations
- Governance processes
- Risk advisory
- Audit
- NIST AI RMF
- ISO 42001
- Policy development
- Process design
- Control testing
- Communication
- Analytical skills
- Investigative skills
Location
- US-NY-REMOTE
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- 8+ years prior relevant experience with University degree
- 5+ years of experience with advanced degree
- 3+ years experience in AI governance, AI/ML systems, incident response, risk management, compliance, digital governance, or cybersecurity
- 3+ years experience and understanding of AI risks, AI control frameworks, governance processes, and regulatory expectations
- 3+ years experience leading cross-functional technical investigations or governance processes with minimal oversight
- 3+ years in risk advisory, compliance, cybersecurity, governance, or audit roles
Education Level
- University degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or related STEM or technical field
- Advanced degree
Salary/Compensations
- 107,500 USD - 204,500 USD
Benefits
- Parental (including paternal) leave
- Flexible work schedules
- Achievement awards
- Educational assistance
- Child/adult backup care
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life insurance
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program
- Employee Scholar Program
- Paid time off
- Holidays
About the Company
- At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems.
- With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can.
- Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world.
- Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense.
Equal Opportunity
- RTX is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or veteran status, or any other applicable state or federal protected class.
- RTX provides affirmative action in employment for qualified Individuals with a Disability and Protected Veterans in compliance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act and the Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act.
