Combat Systems Analyst – UAS Operations

Description

Are you passionate about applying real-world military operational experience to the development of future combat capabilities?

Do you enjoy working with engineers, developers, analysts, and warfighters to translate operational challenges into technical requirements and solutions?

If so, we're looking for someone like you to join our Human-Machine Engineering team at APL!

We are seeking a Combat Systems Analyst with UAS operational expertise to help shape, evaluate, and improve current and future defense capabilities. Our multidisciplinary team consists of systems engineers, software developers, human systems engineers, analysts, and other technical experts working together to address complex operational challenges.

Within this capacity, you will bring an operator's perspective into the engineering process by helping teams understand how systems are employed in realistic operational environments. You will work with warfighters, engineers, government sponsors, and industry partners to translate mission needs into operational concepts, requirements, scenarios, experiments, and system recommendations. You will also support the evaluation of emerging technologies and human-machine teaming concepts through exercises, demonstrations, experimentation, operational analysis, and test activities.

• Serve as an operational subject matter expert supporting the development and evaluation of advanced defense capabilities with an emphasis on UAS, aviation, command and control, and human-machine teaming.
• Analyze military missions, operational concepts, workflows, and system interactions to identify capability gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Translate operational needs, warfighter feedback, and mission challenges into system requirements, operational concepts, use cases, mission threads, and technical recommendations.
• Work directly with systems engineers, software developers, human systems engineers, analysts, government sponsors, and military operators throughout the system development and evaluation process.
• Develop realistic operational scenarios and mission threads to support system design, experimentation, test, and evaluation.
• Support the development and evaluation of concepts of operation (CONOPS), tactics, techniques, procedures, and employment concepts for emerging capabilities.
• Participate in exercises, demonstrations, test events, experiments, and operational assessments involving UAS and other military systems.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and system concepts to determine their operational utility and ability to address mission needs.
• Analyze results from exercises, experiments, demonstrations, and test activities and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Help design human-machine teaming concepts that effectively integrate operators, autonomous systems, decision-support technologies, sensors, and other mission systems.
• Engage with operational personnel and other stakeholders to capture feedback and ensure the warfighter perspective remains represented throughout development.
• Communicate operational findings and recommendations through technical documentation, reports, briefings, and presentations to technical teams, leadership, and government sponsors.

Qualifications

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you...

• Hold a Bachelor's degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering, Operations Research, Computer Science, Mathematics, National Security, Military Studies, or another relevant discipline, or have equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Have significant experience with U.S. military operations, including operational planning, mission execution, training, test, evaluation, experimentation, or…