Operations Research Analyst- Associate

Overview

Title: Operations Research Analyst
- Associate

K 's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. This position involves work that supports national security objectives and may impact mission-critical outcomes.

• Innovative Projects: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
• Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in successfully getting mission capability on orbit and shaping the future of space reconnaissance.

• Develops and implements new research objectives, establish project priorities, defines methods to approach and execute the study.
• Provides scientific conclusions and interpretations.
• Analyzes actual and predicted, interacting, and operational activities of a military, governmental, or business system to obtain a quantitative, rational basis for decision-making through the application of logic and scientific or economic disciplines and techniques.
• Participates in planning, scheduling, and coordinating selected analytical process phases or assists in working any selection of subcomponents of the process or system under analysis.
• Devises modeling and measuring techniques; utilizes mathematics, statistical methods, simulations, operational mathematics techniques (linear programming, game theory, probability theory, symbolic language, etc.) and other principles and laws of scientific and economic disciplines.
• Applies extensive technical expertise and has knowledge of other related disciplines.
• Guides the successful completion of analysis.
• Develops technical solutions to complex problems that require regular ingenuity and creativity.
• Work is performed without appreciable direction and exercises considerable latitude in determining technical objectives of assignment.

• Master's degree in Analysis related field
• 7 years of analysis experience
• Ability to gain and hold a TS/SCI clearance
• Experience manipulating data from Excel spreadsheets
• Ability and motivation to self-teach analysis skills aligned with analysis best practices
• Expected to deliver in a fast-paced, team-oriented work environment
• Ability to combine and analyze disparate data for presentation to senior level decision makers

• Active TS/SCI clearance
• Expertise in operational testing environments, surveillance and reconnaissance environments, and electromagnetic spectrum fields
• Familiarity with models approved for use in the Defense Intelligence Agency All-Source Analysis Enterprise (DIAAE)
• Familiarity with the Joint Intelligence Preparation of the Operating Environment process
• Expertise in satellite communications, satellite constellations and developing and conducting operational tests to assist a diverse team conduct requirements analyses
• Experience researching, identifying, and making recommendations on resources and emergent technologies that may improve the execution of future year requirements
• Experience developing display metrics generated from automated data sources
• Experience with modeling, simulation and wargaming for joint campaign scenario development and analysis
• Experience with a cloud computing system such as ADVANA, ENVISION or PALANTIR
• Experience with model-based systems engineering programs SysML, CAMEO, Magic Draw
• Experience with the Satellite Analysis Toolkit
• Experience programming with Python, MATLAB, C++ and SQL
• Familiarity with AFSIM and STK

• Location: On-site in Arlington, VA
• Travel Requirements: Minimal less than 10% if necessary
• Working Hours: Standard

If you're excited about making a significant impact in the field of space defense and working on projects that matter, we encourage you to apply and join our team at K . Let s shape the future together.

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