Weapons Systems Analyst, Senior
About The Position
The Senior Weapons Systems Analyst leverages expertise in foreign conventional weapons-system operations to prioritize team threat-analysis and characterization efforts. The role provides technical direction and subject-matter expertise for intelligence analysis focused on foreign air and missile defense systems, integrated air defense systems (IADS), radars, command and control (C2), interceptors, effectors, and threat-system operations. The analyst conducts engineering analysis and reverse-engineering studies to identify architecture dependencies and advises efforts involving foreign threat-system analysis, foreign materiel exploitation (FME), technical signals intelligence (SIGINT), radar and electronic order-of-battle assessment, and threat-system performance characterization. The role guides analysis of foreign sensor, C2, and weapon-system capabilities, including radar modes, operating concepts, engagement timelines, kill-chain behavior, system-of-systems integration, mobility, survivability, and operational employment. The analyst leads analysis of foreign ground-based air-defense and missile-defense radars, fire-control, acquisition and surveillance radars, command posts, launchers, interceptors, and related communications and data-link architectures. They assess draft research and development system products and timelines, designs, configurations, capabilities, performance, operations, employment strategies, and signatures for validity, stability, and rigor. The role also tailors assessments for space initiatives and translates intelligence findings into technical insights for missile-defense architecture assessment, test planning, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and operational threat representation.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience with foreign air and missile defense systems relating to C2, radar, interceptors and effectors, engagement operations, IADS architectures, missile defense, and technical signals.
- 5+ years of experience working with Scientific and Technical Intelligence Center organizations, Service intelligence centers, DoW intelligence production organizations, national laboratories, or technical intelligence customers.
- Experience applying radar-system fundamentals, including radar modes, waveforms, antenna concepts, electronic scanning, tracking, fire-control functions, discrimination, signal processing, electronic protection, and operational signatures.
- Experience interpreting or applying technical SIGINT, FME-derived data, intelligence reports, test data, engineering data, or all-source intelligence to characterize foreign threat-system performance and operational capability.
- Active TS/SCI clearance and willingness to take a polygraph exam.
- Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Physical Science, Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Operational Research, or Computer Science.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with foreign surface-to-air missile systems, theater missile defense systems, strategic missile defense systems, counter-air architectures, and sensor-to-shooter kill chains.
- Experience with foreign radar exploitation, emitter characterization, ELINT, FISINT, and MASINT-informed analysis, radar parametric assessment, or threat-system reverse engineering.
- Experience developing modeling and simulation products such as threat models, system performance estimates, engagement timelines, parametric databases, intelligence-informed M&S inputs, or test threat representations.
- Experience working in special access program and special access required environments.
- Knowledge of foreign C2 networks, air-defense doctrine, missile engagement operations, electronic warfare, datalinks, battle management, and operational employment concepts.
- Master's degree in a STEM field.
Responsibilities
- Orchestrate and prioritize team threat-analysis and characterization efforts for foreign conventional weapons systems.
- Provide technical direction and subject-matter expertise for intelligence analysis of foreign air and missile defense systems, IADS, radars, C2, interceptors, effectors, and threat-system operations.
- Conduct engineering analyses and reverse-engineering studies to determine architecture inter- and intra-dependencies.
- Advise foreign threat-system analysis, FME, technical SIGINT analysis, radar and electronic order-of-battle assessment, and threat-system performance characterization efforts.
- Guide analysis of foreign sensor, C2, and weapon-system capabilities, including radar modes, operating concepts, engagement timelines, kill-chain behavior, system-of-systems integration, mobility, survivability, and operational employment.
- Lead analysis of foreign air-defense and missile-defense radars, command posts, launchers, interceptors, communications, and data-link architectures.
- Assess draft research and development system products, timelines, designs, configurations, capabilities, performance, operations, employment strategies, and signatures for validity, stability, and rigor.
- Tailor assessments supporting space initiatives that generate, evaluate, and recommend force designs for U.S. space-based systems, services, and architectures, including ISR and missile warning.
- Translate intelligence findings into technical insights for missile-defense architecture assessment, test planning, modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and operational threat representation.
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits.
- Paid leave.
- Professional development.
- Tuition assistance.
- Work-life programs.
- Dependent care.
- Recognition awards program for exceptional performance and demonstration of company values.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
