Principal Operations Analyst (Air and Space Forces Center)

MITRE Corporation - Fairborn, OH

Full-time

Fairborn, OH

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Tactical Air Dominance Department at MITRE is seeking an expert in mission engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis to support the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC). This role involves applying advanced operations analysis techniques to inform decision-making, designing studies to evaluate system designs, and leading mission engineering efforts to provide data-driven products for sponsors. The position emphasizes collaboration, technical communication, and the application of digital engineering processes.

Responsibilities

• Applying advanced operations analysis techniques to inform decision making for DoD sponsors.
• Designing and implementing studies to evaluate system designs and architectures.
• Generating, decomposing, and reviewing system requirements.
• Modeling system requirements, behaviors and interfaces through Digital Engineering processes and tools.
• Leading the development of technical solutions and communicating these solutions in support of MITRE's defense sponsors.
• Developing technical papers and presentations that can communicate architecture designs, Analysis of Alternatives, and technical analysis.
• Collaborating with other engineers across MITRE's organizations to coordinate development efforts and ensure product quality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field with a minimum of 10 years of related experience, or 8 years with a Master's degree, or a PhD with 5 years' experience.
• Active DoD TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance.
• Demonstrated experience in producing high quality technical deliverables to inform evidence-driven decision making.
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating and communicating with senior level DoD sponsors.
• Strong interest in aircraft system design, aircraft integration, and early weapon systems engineering.
• Subject matter expert in system modeling and simulation tools such as MATLAB, Cameo, Rhapsody, AFSIM, etc.
• Demonstrated experience with object-oriented software languages (Java, C++, etc.), schema-based languages (JSON, XML, etc.), and/or scripting languages (Python).
• Ability to work and communicate effectively within multi-disciplinary teams.

Nice-to-haves

• Graduate level degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics or similar STEM field.
• Active DoD TOP SECRET/SCI Security Clearance with significant experience working on special access programs.
• Demonstrated experience with systems engineering lifecycle activities (requirements, design, development, testing, deployment, sustainment) for DoD Sponsors.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits
• Exceptional professional development opportunities
• Culture of innovation that embraces diversity, inclusion, flexibility, collaboration, and career growth