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Information Extraction Engineer

Extract structured facts from complex documents in a fully remote role at DEFCON AI.

Location
Remote, USA
Compensation
$130k–$160k/yr
Level
mid
Type
full time · Remote

Posted by employer 3 days ago

First seen on Joblaze 2 days ago

Last verified on the company career page 57 minutes ago

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Skills & Technologies

What you'll build

  • Extract structured facts from long, free-text documents
  • Maintain a traceable pointer from every extracted fact to its source
  • Validate cited passages support extracted facts
  • Apply and extend the team’s established extraction approach
  • Handle ambiguous or contradictory source text

Must have

  • 3+ years extracting structured facts from unstructured text
  • Experience keeping extracted output traceable to its source
  • Strong Python skills
  • Hands-on NLP or information-extraction tooling
  • US Citizenship Required
  • Active US Secret clearance

Nice to have

  • Extraction experience in a government or legal setting
  • LLM-based extraction experience
  • Experience with downstream matching or retrieval systems
  • Active Top Secret clearance

AI in the day-to-day

The platform depends on extraction a reviewer can trust precisely because it can be checked against the original document.

Requirements

Experience
3+ years
Visa
No sponsorship (stated in posting)

Benefits

Unlimited PTO Remote Work Health Insurance Parental Leave

Joblaze summary

In this role, the Information Extraction Engineer focuses on extracting structured facts from lengthy, unstructured documents while ensuring each fact is traceable to its source. Proficiency in Python and experience with NLP or information-extraction tools are essential, particularly in a production environment. This position is suited for professionals with at least three years of relevant experience, ideally in sectors like government or finance. The team operates within a secure cloud environment, emphasizing accuracy and reliability in data extraction.

Joblaze insights

  • Listed 2 days ago — first seen on Joblaze October 3, 2026. Last confirmed on DEFCON AI's careers page October 5, 2026.
  • Salary band is below the typical range for AI/ML roles (median ~$190,000).
  • Starts above 23% of 116 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States that list Python we track (median $150,000 across 48 companies). See Python salary trends
  • Python appears in 48.5% of 460 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States; Information Extraction appears in 0.2% of 460 comparable mid ai/ml roles in United States.

Quick facts

Is the Information Extraction Engineer role remote?
Yes — DEFCON AI lists this as a fully remote position.
What's the salary range?
DEFCON AI lists $130,000–$160,000 for this role.
How much experience is required?
At least 3 years of relevant experience for this Information Extraction Engineer role.
What's the tech stack?
Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Information Extraction, NLP, Python.
What seniority level is this role?
DEFCON AI targets mid-level candidates for this position.
Is this full-time or contract?
Full-time for this Information Extraction Engineer role at DEFCON AI.

From the original posting

ABOUT DEFCON AI

About the Role

You’ll pull structured facts out of long, free-text documents, and keep every one of them tied to the exact passage it came from. On this platform, nothing gets asserted without a citation a human reviewer can check, and that traceability is yours to build and protect.

You’ll join the analytics and AI engineering team behind a system that ingests records from dozens of disparate sources, resolves them to the right entity, and shows a human reviewer the exact source text behind every answer. Operating within a secure government cloud environment, the platform depends on extraction a reviewer can trust precisely because it can be checked against the original document.

You’ll join an established extraction practice rather than building one from scratch. The approach is set and reviewed by a senior practitioner on the team. Your contribution is sustained, consistent output at volume against long, messy, narrative documents that were never written with extraction in mind, and the judgment to flag what doesn’t fit rather than force it.

This is a fully remote role, with a later start date than our most urgent openings. We’re sourcing now so the seat is filled when the work begins.

Key Responsibilities

  • Extract structured facts from long, free-text, narrative, and semi-structured documents
  • Maintain a traceable pointer from every extracted fact back to the exact source passage it came from
  • Validate that every cited passage actually supports the extracted fact, and treat a missing or unsupported citation as a defect
  • Distinguish a stated total from a derived sum in financial narratives, retaining the contributing items and the calculation for verification
  • Consume the recorded rule context supplied to model-assisted extraction, keeping cited facts and uncertainty separate from any validity decision
  • Apply and extend the team’s established extraction approach consistently across new document types
  • Handle ambiguous, contradictory, or incomplete source text without forcing a single reading; flag it rather than guessing
  • Work with entity resolution and retrieval teammates on what a usable extracted fact needs to carry downstream

Required Qualifications

  • 3+ years extracting structured facts or data from unstructured, narrative text in a production setting
  • Experience keeping extracted output traceable to its source
  • Strong Python, with hands-on NLP or information-extraction tooling, whether rule-based, statistical, or LLM-based
  • US Citizenship Required
  • Active US Secret clearance

Preferred Qualifications

  • Extraction experience in a government, investigative, legal, financial-crime, or intelligence-adjacent setting
  • LLM-based extraction with structured output schemas and validation against source text
  • Experience where extracted facts fed a downstream matching, scoring, or retrieval system
  • Active Top Secret clearance

What Success Looks Like

  • Facts extracted at volume, with every claim traceable to its source passage
  • Extraction that holds up when a subject-matter expert checks it against the original document
  • Sustained throughput across new document types without re-deriving the approach for each one

What We Offer

  • A fully remote, results-based environment
  • Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
  • 100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
  • Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
  • Flexible work environment where you manage your work day
  • 14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave

Salary Range: $130,000—$160,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience, skills, and other factors.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer: You’ll receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

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