About this role
Job title: Operations Research Analyst
About the Role Join a high-impact team shaping the Cyberspace Operations Force through advanced analytical integration and concept development. You will apply rigorous operations research methodologies to assess emerging technologies, adversary behaviors, and force-design implications, supporting the development, refinement, and validation of cyberspace concepts and performing quantitative gaps, risk, and performance analyses. You will collaborate with planners, intelligence analysts, wargame designers, and Joint Force stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor and strategic alignment and drive decision-ready insights for long-range planning and force design.
What You'll Do
- Apply rigorous operations research methodologies to assess emerging technologies, adversary behaviors, and force-design implications.
- Support development, refinement, and validation of cyberspace concepts and perform quantitative gaps, risk, and performance analyses.
- Collaborate with planners, intelligence analysts, wargame designers, and Joint Force stakeholders to ensure analytic rigor and strategic alignment.
- Help drive decision-ready insights that influence long-range planning and force design.
- Prepare detailed analytic reports that translate complex data into meaningful information.
What We're Looking For
- 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 Have
- Experience conducting concept refinement, validation, or doctrinal assessment.
- Experience developing MOEs, 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 Python, R, or MATLAB used for quantitative modeling, risk analysis, and data interpretation.
Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $86,900.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD).
- Benefits include health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits, paid leave, professional development, tuition assistance, work-life programs, and dependent care; recognition awards; eligibility for Booz Allen’s total benefits program.