Regional Threats Modeling and Simulations Engineer (Senior-Level)

Purpose and Impact:

Our industry-leading intelligence support program informs decision-makers, from ground force commanders to international partners and national security policymakers. Our employees lead the Intelligence community in providing superior Identity Intelligence and regional threat analysis, and developing innovative data-driven solutions, supporting the customer through intelligence analysis and tradecraft proliferation.

Work Schedule: Flexible; 4-16 hours per week at times (remote), 40 hours per week (on site) (8 hrs / day 5 days / wk) during defined project periods.

Essential Responsibilities:

This position conducts data analytics, data engineering, data mining, exploratory analysis, predictive analysis, and statistical analysis, wargaming, scenario and strategy development, and uses scientific techniques to correlate data into graphical, written, visual and verbal narrative products, enabling more informed analytic decisions. Our Data Scientists proactively retrieve information from various sources, analyze it for better understanding about the data set, and build AI tools that automate certain processes. Duties typically include creating various ML-based tools or processes, such as recommendation engines or automated lead scoring systems; performing statistical analysis, applying data mining techniques, and building high quality prediction systems; and developing data visualization solutions and graphical applications in Microsoft Office (Power BI) and Tableau. This position also supports building depth of understanding in characterizing foreign military and insurgent force capabilities to inform models, simulations, and wargames.  Major data science languages required include R and Python. This position manages and merges disparate data sources, preferably through R, Python, or SQL, and develops statistical analysis and data mining algorithms. Experience with large data Multi-INT analytics, ML, and automated predictive analytics is highly preferred.

Work Environment, Physical Demands, and Mental Demands: Office environment.  

Minimum Requirements (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities):

• Demonstrates comprehensive data science, machine learning, modeling, and simulations skills.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology. Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth understanding of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate understanding from information that may be incomplete, indirect, highly complex, seemingly unrelated, and / or technically advanced.
• Demonstrates ability to lead teams in researching multifaceted or critical problems. Provides guidance in selecting, designing, and applying analytic methodologies.  Uses argument evaluation and validated analytic methodologies to challenge differing perspectives.

Clearance Required:

• TS/SCI

Minimum Education:

• High School Education

Minimum Years of Experience:

• 12 yrs relevant experience, 8 yrs w/ Bachelor’s Degree

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing wargames and force-on-force scenarios for threat nations invasions into other countries, to include analysis of battle type factors, and in-depth studies, such as force ratios, national/armed forces strengths and weaknesses, quality and numbers of weapons and equipment, national and armed forces doctrines, and intangibles such as esprit de corps and morale.
• Experience conducting / teaching doctrinal military wargaming during planning of Large-Scale Combat Operations.
• Familiarity with intelligence analysis processes, terrain mapping, route planning, and maritime geospatial activity analysis.

This position is not designated as a safety sensitive position.

As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and compliant work environment, Amentum is a drug-free workplace and requires all personnel to comply with company drug and alcohol policies as a condition of employment.  Employment is contingent upon successful completion of the drug screening process.  Please note that this may include pre-hire screening for marijuana, as well as other federally controlled substances due to Amentum’s role as a federal contractor and trusted partner to the US Government.  

Other Responsibilities:

Safety - Amentum enforces a safety culture whereby all employees have the responsibility for continuously developing and maintaining a safe work environment. As appropriate, each employee is responsible for completing all training requirements and fulfilling all self-aid/buddy aid responsibilities, participating in emergency response tasks and serving on safety committees and teams.

Quality - Quality is the foundation for the management of our business and the keystone to our goal of customer satisfaction. It is our policy to consistently provide services that meet customer expectations. Accordingly, each employee must conform to the Amentum Quality Policy and carry out job activities in compliance with applicable Amentum Quality System documents and customer contracts. Each employee must read and understand his/her Quality Management and Customer Satisfaction responsibilities.

Procedure Compliance - Each employee must read, understand and implement the general and specific operational, safety, quality and environmental requirements of all plans, procedures and policies pertaining to his/her job.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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