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Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis

Conducts operational analysis, modeling, simulation, and wargaming to evaluate autonomous aircraft effectiveness, survivability, and mission impact. The role requires a STEM bachelor’s degree, at least seven years of defense or aerospace analysis experience, and the ability to obtain required security clearances.

150k – 220k/yr
On-site7+ YOEData Science

About the role

Responsibilities

  • 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 across varying operational conditions, assumptions, and threat environments.
  • Build, modify, and analyze mission-level models using AFSIM, STK, MATLAB, Python, or similar modeling and simulation 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 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 practices, including version control, scripting, scalable compute workflows, and reproducible analysis, to build and maintain reliable analysis pipelines.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in a science, technology, engineering, or mathematics discipline.
  • 7+ years of experience in operational analysis, modeling and simulation, operations research, or related defense or aerospace roles.
  • Active Secret clearance at minimum, with active Top Secret preferred, or ability to obtain the required clearance.
  • Ability to obtain an S//SAR-level security clearance is desired.

Nice-to-haves

  • Force-on-force analysis, CONOPS development, or military campaign modeling experience.
  • Expertise in design reference missions such as OCA or SEAD.
  • Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, Brawler, ESAMS, JCIDS, and military operational testing.
  • DoD program experience as an analysis task lead.
  • Systems engineering product development lifecycle experience; SysML or MBSE preferred.
  • Experience providing critical program analysis for system design and integration/testing.

Skills

operational analysismodeling and simulationwargamingData Scienceoperations researchafsimstkMATLABPythonforce-on-force analysisconopssysmlmbsejcidsversion control

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