Operations Research Analyst
About The Position
Join a high-impact team shaping the future of the Cyberspace Operations Force through advanced analytical integration and concept development. In this role, you will apply rigorous operations research methodologies to assess emerging technologies, adversary behaviors, and force-design implications. You will support development, refinement, and validation of cyberspace concepts and perform quantitative gaps, risk, and performance analysis. The position requires close collaboration with planners, intelligence analysts, wargame designers, and stakeholders across the Joint Force to ensure analytic rigor and strategic alignment. You will help drive decision-ready insights that influence long-range planning and force design. Join us. The world can’t wait.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience as an Operations Research Analyst
- Experience advising and collaborating with stakeholders to evaluate data, optimize data usage, and promote information sharing
- Knowledge of the Joint Planning Process
- Ability to analyze operational metrics, develop data-driven recommendations, and translate findings into decision-ready insights
- Ability to prepare detailed analytic reports that convert complex data into meaningful information
- Active TS/SCI clearance; willingness to take a polygraph exam
- Bachelor’s degree
Nice To Haves
- Experience conducting concept refinement, validation, or doctrinal assessment
- Experience developing Measures of Effectiveness (MOEs), Measures of Performance (MOPs), and analytic frameworks for wargames and experimentation
- Experience performing force design analysis, gap analysis, or comparative evaluation of capability alternatives
- Experience supporting senior-leader decision products such as read-aheads, issue briefs, and strategic summaries
- Experience with advanced analytic tools such as Python, R, or MATLAB used for quantitative modeling, risk analysis, and data interpretation
Responsibilities
- Apply rigorous operations research methodologies to assess emerging technologies, adversary behaviors, and force-design implications.
- Support development, refinement, and validation of cyberspace concepts.
- Perform quantitative gaps, risk, and performance analysis.
- Collaborate with planners, intelligence analysts, wargame designers, and stakeholders across the Joint Force to ensure analytic rigor and strategic alignment.
- Drive decision-ready insights that influence long-range planning and force design.
Benefits
- health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
- paid leave
- professional development
- tuition assistance
- work-life programs
- dependent care
- recognition awards program
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
