Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (R4757)

What you'll do

• Execute operational analyses to assess the effectiveness of autonomous systems in representative military scenarios.
• Develop and run modeling, simulation, and wargaming analyses to evaluate system performance, mission impact, and survivability in contested environments.
• Collaborate with engineering teams and product managers to translate operational findings into actionable system insights.
• Perform trade studies and sensitivity analyses to assess system performance across varying operational conditions, assumptions, and threat environments.
• Build, modify, and analyze mission-level models using tools such as AFSIM, STK, MATLAB, Python, or similar M&S frameworks.
• Analyze force-on-force engagements, sensor performance, and autonomy-enabled behaviors to support mission effectiveness assessments.
• Engage with DoD stakeholders, operators, and analysts to understand mission needs and operational constraints.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of concepts of operations (CONOPS) for AI-enabled aircraft capabilities.
• Monitor emerging threats and operational challenges relevant to autonomous and air combat systems.
• Prepare technical documentation, analysis reports, and briefings for internal teams, customers, and government stakeholders.
• Apply modern compute and development best practices (e.g., version control, scripting, scalable compute workflows, and reproducible analysis) to build and maintain reliable analysis pipelines.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or math domain.
• 7+ years of experience in operational analysis, modeling & simulation, operations research, or related defense or aerospace roles.
• Active Secret at minimum, preferred active Top-Secret clearance (or ability to obtain one).

Preferred qualifications

• Prior experience in force-on-force analysis, CONOPS development, or military campaign modeling.
• Expertise in applicable design reference mission development such as OCA or SEAD.
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, tools (Brawler, ESAMS, etc.), Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and military operational testing.
• DoD Program experience as analysis task lead.
• Prior experience in systems engineering product development lifecycle (SysML or MBSE preferred).
• Expertise providing program critical analysis for system design and integration/test.