Senior Operations Research Analyst

RTX•Woburn, MA

1d•$86,800 - $165,200•Onsite

About The Position

At RTX, the world's largest aerospace and defense company, 185,000 great minds are united by purpose and inspired to make a difference solving the world’s most complex problems. With our three market leading businesses, world-class operations and investments in research and development, we offer capabilities and opportunity no one else can. Together, we push the boundaries of known science and find new ways to connect and protect our world. Raytheon brings the strength of more than 100 years of experience and renowned engineering expertise to meet the needs of today’s mission and stay ahead of tomorrow’s threat. We deliver solutions that help our nation and allies defend freedoms and deter aggression, creating a safer, more secure world. Join us and help shape the future of aerospace and defense. The Integrated Solutions, Modeling, and Architecture (ISMA) directorate assesses, develops, and evaluates solution architectures for our customers’ largest, most complex challenges across all the operational domains. In the Operations and Mission Analysis Department you’ll be part of a special team that analyzes the world’s most challenging threats and helps define new capabilities to counter them, pushing the boundaries of innovation, and leading the industry in operational modeling and simulation using our purpose-built software. As a member in the Concept of Operations (CONOPS) Analysis Section, you will be joining a team of high-performing engineers focused on using modeling and simulating tools to conduct analysis on current and future integrated systems including sensors, effectors, command and control capabilities, to support the development of next generation of CONOPS for countering peer competitor threats across the operational domains. Our team’s efforts include conducting analysis at the campaign, mission and system level based on our warfighting customer requirements. The CONOPS Analysis section is hiring for a Modeling and Simulation Engineer, Senior Systems Engineer. This is an onsite role in either Woburn or Tewksbury, MA.

Requirements

Typically requires a degree in Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of 5 years of prior relevant experience unless prohibited by local laws/regulations.
Experience with MATLAB, Python, and/or C/C++
Experience in Military Operations Analysis, wargaming, and/or Modeling & Simulation experience in the defense industry, and/or data analysis & visualization
The ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. government secret security clearance is required prior to start. U.S. citizenship is required, as only U.S. citizens are eligible for a security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Degree in one of the following majors: Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Operations Research, Math, Applied Math, Industrial Engineering, Physics, or Aerospace Engineering
Active Secret or Top Secret DoD clearance
Knowledge of the system engineering life-cycle mode
Experience in data analysis and statistics with large volumes of data
Experience conducting analyses and studies, including how to define and execute a study
Experience evaluating new concepts of operation and developing new technology use cases
Demonstrated technical and analytical skills to develop credible results for presenting to the customer
Experience in concepts such as Concept of Operations (CONOPS), system tradeoffs, threat definitions, and system of system assessments

Responsibilities

Develop and implement model-based solutions that meet defined requirements and functions that will support mission trade studies and performance simulations
Contribute knowledge of performance engineering practices and procedures to evaluate work across a wide range of intriguing computational problems
Contribute and collaborate in a team environment receiving input from the program or team experts. The projects will vary in mission areas where your knowledge across the breadth of architectures will contribute to the development of the most effective approaches and solutions
Evaluate end-to-end system requirements to understand system interfaces and data connectivity across military kill-chains
Analyze data to understand performance requirements
Develop analytical metrics to validate proposed architectures against requirements as well as help shape future tech growth
Develop or implement algorithms to provide next-generation performance across entire system of systems