Lead Operations Analyst

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

Department Summary:

This is an opportunity for a Statistical Modeling & Simulation Analyst to join MITRE’s Operations Analysis department. We are a large group of over 60 technical professionals, including over 20 PhDs, who provide thought leadership on a variety of strategic and technical issues, perform analysis that enable our sponsors to make more effective decisions, lead internal research and development activities to bring new technical capabilities into the public sector, and serve as trusted third-party advisors to government sponsors on a variety of technical topics.  

In short, we apply our problem-solving skills to complex interdisciplinary problems that occur within or at the intersection of organizations, operations, and technology.  We support sponsor projects across the defense and public sectors including military logistics, radio-spectrum frequency management, health care delivery, cybersecurity analytics, fraud detection, satellite planning, homeland security and civilian aviation. We apply advanced analytic techniques such as longitudinal analysis, large-scale integer programming, meta heuristics, agent-based modeling, reinforcement learning, predictive modeling, mathematical modeling, forecasting, machine learning, optimization, statistics, probability modeling, Bayesian analysis, and different types of simulation to solve the nation’s toughest problems.

And our research pushes the boundaries on topics such as complex scheduling, medical image analysis, aviation, and human-machine teaming.

If you are passionate about project-based analytical work in the public interest, you have found the right place.

Roles & Responsibilities :

Apply advanced analytical and mathematical techniques to make difficult policy and acquisition decisions, to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, and achieve highest quality engineering solutions.

Lead and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams (statisticians, analysts, subject matter experts, operators) to set priorities, outline gaps / limitations / assumptions, review technical work, resolve difficult research issues, and ensure results are accurate, validated, and aligned with mission needs and security requirements.

Represent MITRE in technical discussions with NHTSA, automakers, and other stakeholders, including resolving conflicting requirements.

Lead development of roadway safety related research proposals including identifying hypotheses, data requirements, analytic methodologies (leveraging state-of-the-art statistical approaches), and defined outputs.

Provide technical oversight for analysis approaches, novel and AI supported research, data linkage, vehicle-data standardization, de-identification, and quality control.

Support definition of data-quality and governance procedures, approve datasets for use, and manage exceptions and risks.

Basic Qualifications:

Typically requires a minimum of 8…