Lead Applied Operations Research 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.

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This is an opportunity for a motivated Operations Research Analyst to join MITRE’s Operations Analysis department. We are a large group of over 60 operations research 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.

• Apply advanced analytical and mathematical modeling techniques to inform difficult policy and acquisition decisions, to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, and achieve highest quality engineering solutions
• Frame problems, collect and manipulate data, develop & code customized algorithms, identify risks, and incorporate domain-specific context, as necessary & applicable, to supplement and enhance insight gained solely from mathematical analyses
• Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise, including creative data visualization artifacts
• Work independently and collaborate with a team of technical staff and domain experts
• Work successfully both in a remote environment and with in-person presence

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Applied Mathematics/Statistics, or equivalent knowledge and skills in a related field or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years of experience or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Be passionate about applying operations research, statistics, and data analytics to real world problems
• Be willing to adapt and learn
• Demonstrated ability to use at least one optimization package (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, PuLP, AMPL)
• Demonstrated ability to use at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, R, Java)
• Demonstrated ability to use at least one simulation platform (e.g., Stella, Simio, Arena, Any Logic, Sim Py, RSimmer)
• Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position requires 4 days a week on site

• Master’s or Ph.D. degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Applied Mathematics/Statistics, or equivalent knowledge and skills in a related field
• Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance (e.g. TS/SCI)
• Experience working with/for agencies…