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At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity. Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.
This is an opportunity for a motivated Operations Research Analyst to join MITRE’s Operations Analysis department. We are a large group of over 60 operations research professionals, including over 20 PhDs, who provide thought leadership on a variety of strategic and technical issues, perform analysis that enable our sponsors to make more effective decisions, lead internal research and development activities to bring new technical capabilities into the public sector, and serve as trusted third-party advisors to government sponsors on a variety of technical topics.
In short, we apply our problem-solving skills to complex interdisciplinary problems that occur within or at the intersection of organizations, operations, and technology. We support sponsor projects across the defense and public sectors including homeland defense, military logistics, radio-spectrum frequency management, health care delivery, cybersecurity analytics, fraud detection, satellite planning, homeland security and civilian aviation. We apply advanced analytic techniques such as longitudinal analysis, large-scale integer programming, metaheuristics, agent-based modeling, reinforcement learning, predictive modeling, mathematical modeling, time series & forecasting, machine learning, optimization, statistics, probability modeling, regression analyses, Bayesian analysis, and different types of simulation to solve the nation’s toughest problems. And our research pushes the boundaries on topics such as complex scheduling, medical image analysis, identifying changes in data streams and incorporating the latest AI advancements into our processes for efficiency and rigor.
If you are passionate about project-based analytical work in the public interest, you have found the right place.
Apply advanced analytical and mathematical modeling techniques to inform difficult policy and acquisition decisions, to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, and achieve highest quality engineering solutions
Frame problems, collect and manipulate data, develop & code customized algorithms, identify risks, and incorporate domain-specific context, as necessary & applicable, to supplement and enhance insight gained solely from mathematical analyses
Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise, including creative data visualization artifacts
Work independently and collaborate with a team of technical staff and domain experts
Work successfully both in a remote environment and with in-person presence
Typically requires a minimum of 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Applied Mathematics/Statistics, or equivalent knowledge and skills in a related field or an advanced degree with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Be passionate about applying operations research, statistics, and data analytics to real world problems
Be willing to adapt and learn
Demonstrated ability to use at least one optimization package (e.g., Gurobi, CPLEX, PuLP, AMPL)
Demonstrated ability to use at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, R, Java)
Demonstrated ability to use at least one simulation platform (e.g., Stella, Simio, Arena, AnyLogic, SimPy, RSimmer)
Must have an active Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance and must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Top Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
This position requires 4 days a week on site
Master’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Data Science/Analytics, Applied Mathematics/Statistics, or equivalent knowledge and skills in a related field
Preference given to qualified candidates with active clearance (e.g. TS/SCI)
Experience working with/for agencies and/or departments of the US Government (e.g., FAA, DoD, DoE, DHS, Treasury, IRS)
Demonstrated ability to develop and incorporate a variety of AI/ML models, techniques, and principles into analytical work to efficiently achieve rigorous outcomes
Familiarity and/or experience with Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) organizations, concepts, modeling, testing, and assessment, to include the Joint Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations Center (JEC), Joint Electromagnetic Warfare Center (JEWC), Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO), Electromagnetic Battle Management—Joint (EMBM-J), Spectrum Consumption Modeling (SCM), and Electronic Warfare (EW)
Familiarity and/or experience with the Mission Engineering paradigm of decomposing a key operational problem, establishing a system-of-systems model of components, technology, policies, procedures, and techniques, and ultimately simulating the process on a technical platform
$98,800 - $123,500 - $148,200 Annual
Onsite
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