Principal Operations Analyst (Air and Space Forces Center)

MITRE Corporation - Fairborn, OH

Full-time - Senior

Fairborn, OH

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Principal Operations Analyst at MITRE will play a crucial role in transforming warfighter operations by applying advanced operations analysis techniques to inform decision-making for Department of Defense (DoD) sponsors. This position involves leading mission engineering, modeling and simulation, and operational analysis efforts to provide data-driven products that enhance the effectiveness of military operations. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders and a strong understanding of mission effects chains, system requirements, and technical solutions.

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 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