Operational Security Analyst

STR•Las Vegas, NV

About The Position

STR is seeking a Principal Technical Integration Test Engineer to join a new group addressing complex modern test and evaluation challenges. The role helps build and guide an expert team that plans, executes, analyzes, and delivers decision-quality test results to support Department of War (DoW) capability advancement. The team emphasizes product-based delivery of test solutions and adapting rapidly to evolving customer needs. The position manages technical customer portfolios and relationships, develops tailored requirements and test objectives, and coordinates complex test campaigns across the defense test and evaluation community. It may involve embedding within customer organizations, serving as a customer test conductor, integrating with developer and performer teams, supporting operators, and coordinating testing across laboratory and open-air environments. The role leads small multidisciplinary teams and delivers technical plans, safety considerations, execution strategies, and results to customers and senior leadership. STR is a technology company specializing in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security, including cyber, sensors, radar, sonar, communications, electronic warfare, and artificial intelligence. The company describes a collaborative learning environment that recognizes team contributions and supports deep technical understanding.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of relevant experience; master's degree and at least 8 years; PhD and at least 5 years; or equivalent directly related experience in RDT&E, technical integration, systems engineering, or a related technical discipline.
Active Top Secret security clearance and eligibility to support Special Access Programs (SAP); U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government.
Expert-level understanding of test organizations, assets, infrastructure, capabilities, and organizational relationships needed to coordinate complex cross-service test and evaluation requirements.
Ability to integrate effectively across organizational levels, from technical engineering and subject-matter expert teams to operational personnel and senior leadership, and accurately represent technical capabilities, requirements, and program status.
Significant experience preparing and delivering high-level technical and programmatic briefings to government customers, senior management, and senior-ranking officials.
Ability to rapidly assess explicit and implied customer requirements, understand operational constraints, and adapt test strategies in high-pressure environments while maintaining technical quality, safety, and mission objectives.
Strong familiarity with standardized DoD test and safety processes, requirements development, test planning, execution methodologies, and test program management.

Nice To Haves

Experience managing relationships across multiple military services and defense organizations at technical, programmatic, and leadership levels.
Knowledge of developmental capability readiness, test portfolios, program histories, and operational integration and employment of emerging technologies.
Proficiency troubleshooting RF and software systems in real time in complex, high-pressure test and operational environments.
Experience collaborating across DoD and Intelligence Community organizations to integrate technical expertise, operational requirements, and test resources.
Firsthand experience conducting complex test events and integrating multi-domain systems in developmental and operational test environments, including engineering technical solutions for specialized test requirements.
Ability to integrate and train operational partners on system capabilities and operations in pre-deployment environments, including providing real-time technical support during operational activities.
Experience planning and executing rapid-turnaround technical test scenarios in constrained, austere, or operationally disadvantaged environments.
Familiarity with U.S. western test ranges, including the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), and Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake.
Professional relationships and working knowledge of acquisition and operational organizations, including the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, OUSD, and SOCOM.

Responsibilities

Manage multiple technical customer portfolios and relationships to design and execute complex test campaigns.
Embed within customer organizations as required to develop tailored requirements, establish test objectives, and determine confidence levels for capabilities and systems under evaluation.
Collaborate across the defense test and evaluation community with program managers, service representatives, SETA personnel, performers, and operators to coordinate and execute test programs.
Develop relationships across DoD acquisition, test, and operational communities, as well as commercial resource providers, to integrate capabilities and deliver test and evaluation solutions.
Lead small multidisciplinary teams designing, coordinating, and executing test and evaluation activities while maintaining technical rigor, operational relevance, and timely delivery.
Connect cross-domain capability development teams with suitable test resources, infrastructure, and expertise.
Develop test plans, Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), test concept documents, Concepts of Operations (CONOPs), test objectives, Measures of Performance (MOPs), and Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs).
Serve as a customer test conductor by coordinating instrumentation, data collection, test resources, and test execution.
Integrate with technical developer and performer teams as a subject-matter expert, representing system requirements, coordinating integration activities, and aligning developmental capabilities with test objectives.
Collaborate with operational stakeholders to identify specialized requirements, assess capability readiness, and align emerging technologies with operational needs.
Provide unit-level operator training and technical support for customer development teams and performers as required.
Coordinate with test organizations and stakeholders to execute customer objectives across laboratory-based and open-air test environments.
Brief technical plans, safety considerations, execution strategies, and test results to customers and senior leadership.