Principal Technical Advisor (Secret #26-114

Strategic Analysis, Inc. is seeking a skilled Principal Technical Advisor to support the Biological Technologies Office (BTO) at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).

Salary Range: $170-220K

• Act as a senior individual contributor who can operate as a trusted technical lead to the Office Director (OD), bringing broad scientific and technical fluency, strategic judgment, and high-value decision support to the office's most consequential priorities.
• The ideal candidate combines deep curiosity, rapid synthesis, and strong executive advisory instincts with a demonstrated ability to aggressively and creatively leverage cutting-edge AI tools as massive force multipliers for research, analysis, drafting, and strategic insight generation.
• At least 8 years of experience providing this type of support to a government agency, ideally focused on R&D.

• Help the Front Office assess technical efforts not only for scientific novelty, but also for feasibility, scalability, integration risk, transition realism, and strategic value.
• Senior individual contributor who can provide high-value technical evaluation, strategic analysis, and decision support directly to the Office Director (OD), using a strong technical mindset to assess complex technical concepts, portfolios, performers, and opportunities.
• Serve as a Principal Technical Advisor supporting the BTO Front Office.
• Other duties as assigned.

Degree:
Engineering, physical science, life sciences, computer science, applied mathematics, operations research, public policy with strong technical foundation, or a related field.

Clearance:
Secret required, ability to obtain TS/SCI

Work Location:
Full time on-site at Arlington VA headquarters, DARPA. Partial telework determined by client.

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