Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (R4759)

What you'll do:

• Plan, own and 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.
• Be a force multiplier by coaching and developing incoming talent.

Required qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or math domain.
9+ years of experience in operational analysis, modeling & simulation, operations research, or related defense or aerospace roles.
Active Secret at a minimum.  Preferred Top-Secret clearance (or ability to obtain one).
Ability to obtain a S//SAR level security clearance desired.

Preferred qualifications:

Prior experience in force-on-force analysis, CONOPS development, or military campaign modeling.
Experience with evaluating strategic development and analysis goals for multi-mission/multi-domain applicability.
Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, tools (Brawler, ESAMS, etc.), Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS), and military operational testing.
Experience leading a product effort from pre-shaping to tactical deployment
Prior experience in systems engineering product development lifecycle (SysML or MBSE preferred)
 Experience developing technical expertise in a team to execute analyses for system design and analysis.