Regional Threats Modeling and Simulations Engineer (Senior-Level)

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Charlottesville, VA, USA
In-Office
Senior level
Security • Cybersecurity
The Role
Designs, develops, and conducts modeling and simulation architectures and wargames against hard targets and missiles. Implements, validates, and tests simulations; supports force-on-force scenarios and large-scale combat operations planning. Interacts with users to define functionality, visualizes operational concepts, analyzes M&S data, and performs terrain, route planning, maritime geospatial, and imagery (visible/IR/radar/full-motion video) analysis.
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Purpose and Impact:

Our industry-leading intelligence support program informs decision-makers, from ground force commanders to international partners and national security policymakers. Our employees lead the Intelligence community in providing superior Identity Intelligence and regional threat analysis, and developing innovative data-driven solutions, supporting the customer through intelligence analysis and tradecraft proliferation.

Work Schedule: Flexible; 4-16 hours per week at times (remote), 40 hours per week (on site) (8 hrs / day 5 days / wk) during defined project periods.

Essential Responsibilities:

This position designs, develops, and conducts simulations against hard targets, missiles, and other intelligence gaps and supports wargaming exercises in a simulated environment. You will conduct modeling and simulation architecture definition, implementation, validation, and testing. You will Interact with users to define and optimize new functionality for applications, develop and visualize operational concepts, performs modeling and simulation data analysis to refine, demonstrate, and assess these concepts.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands: Office environment.  

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

  • Demonstrates comprehensive mission knowledge and wargaming, modeling, and simulations skills.
  • Demonstrates ability to develop wargames and force-on-force scenarios for threat nations invasions into other countries, to include analysis of battle type factors, and in-depth studies, such as force ratios, national/armed forces strengths and weaknesses, quality and numbers of weapons and equipment, national and armed forces doctrines, and intangibles such as esprit de corps and morale.
  • Demonstrates ability to conduct / teach doctrinal military wargaming during planning of Large-Scale Combat Operations.
  • Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
  • Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.  Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.
  • Demonstrates ability to produce analysis on terrain mapping, route planning, and maritime geospatial activity. Interprets imagery including (but not limited to) visible, infrared and radar data as well as full-motion video for the identification of foreign conventional and unconventional military facilities, systems and activities.

Clearance Required:

  • TS/SCI

Minimum Education:

  • High School Education

Minimum Years of Experience:

  • 12 yrs relevant experience, 8 yrs w/ Bachelor’s Degree

This position is not designated as a safety sensitive position.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process.  Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.  

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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Skills Required

  • TS/SCI clearance
  • Minimum 12 years relevant experience (8 years with Bachelor's degree)
  • High School Education (minimum)
  • Comprehensive mission knowledge and wargaming, modeling, and simulations skills
  • Ability to develop wargames and force-on-force scenarios including analysis of force ratios, doctrine, equipment, and morale
  • Ability to conduct and teach doctrinal military wargaming for Large-Scale Combat Operations planning
  • Ability to communicate insights from incomplete, complex, or technically advanced information
  • Ability to lead teams researching multifaceted or critical problems and guide analytic methodology selection
  • Expertise in terrain mapping, route planning, maritime geospatial analysis
  • Imagery interpretation skills including visible, infrared, radar, and full-motion video

Amentum Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Amentum and has not been reviewed or approved by Amentum.

  • Healthcare Strength Healthcare offerings are described as comprehensive, with medical, dental, and vision plans and multiple PPO/HSA options. Mental health support via an employee assistance program and other wellness resources is also included in the benefits mix.
  • Retirement Support Retirement support is positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards through a 401(k) plan with employer matching. Profit-sharing contributions and immediate or near-term vesting in some cases further strengthen the retirement value proposition.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Time-off benefits are presented as solid for the sector, including tiered PTO accrual by tenure and a set of paid holidays. Role-dependent flexible or remote work options and leave programs add to perceived work-life support.

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HQ: Germantown, MD
18,261 Employees

What We Do

Amentum is a premier global technical and engineering services partner supporting critical programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and environment. We draw from a century-old heritage of operational excellence, mission focus, and successful execution underpinned by a strong culture of safety and ethics. Headquartered in Germantown, Md., we employ more than 20,000 people in 48 states and 28 foreign countries and territories. Visit us at amentum.com to explore how we deliver excellence for our customers’ most vital missions.

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