Senior Operations Research Analyst (Aerospace)

Location: El Segundo, California; LAAFB, United States

Salary: $110,000+ annually, depending on experience, certifications, and qualifications

Company

Professional services support for Space Systems Command and the Space Sensing Directorate through Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) activities.

What you will do

• Conduct quantitative analyses supporting acquisition decisions, program execution, mission effectiveness, resource allocation, risk management, and performance assessments.
• Apply operations research, statistical analysis, modeling, simulation, optimization, forecasting, and decision-analysis techniques to aerospace and defense problems.
• Develop and evaluate courses of action, trade studies, alternatives analyses, investment recommendations, models, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
• Analyze cost, schedule, performance, risk, reliability, readiness, resources, and mission-effectiveness data across space, ground, communications, processing, and command-and-control segments.
• Support milestone planning, integrated master schedule analysis, program health assessments, readiness reviews, and mission-level or system-of-systems analyses.
• Prepare technical reports, executive briefings, decision papers, risk assessments, and recommendations while coordinating with government stakeholders, operational users, contractors, and engineering teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• At least 5 years of relevant operations research, data analysis, systems analysis, aerospace, defense, or acquisition experience.
• Experience with modeling and simulation, statistical analysis, optimization, forecasting, risk analysis, or decision analysis.
• Experience analyzing complex systems, programs, missions, schedules, resources, or performance data and developing reports, briefings, dashboards, and decision-support products.
• Knowledge of Department of Defense acquisition, systems engineering, or program-management processes, with strong technical writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Active DoD Secret clearance required or the ability to obtain one; TS/SCI is preferred.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting Space Systems Command, Space Force, Air Force, missile warning, missile tracking, OPIR, SBIRS, FORGE, or related space programs.
• Experience with architecture analysis, system-of-systems analysis, mission-thread analysis, sensor-to-shooter assessments, cost and schedule analysis, or earned value.
• Experience developing risk models, Monte Carlo simulations, reliability analyses, resource-allocation models, or operational effectiveness assessments.
• Familiarity with Model-Based Systems Engineering, Digital Engineering, Agile development, and decision-quality analytics.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time professional services role supporting government space and defense programs.
• Work includes collaboration with government stakeholders, operational users, contractors, mission partners, and multidisciplinary engineering teams.