Principal Safeguards & Security Specialist - Technical Security Analyst (Nuclear Security)

Location: Onsite at the Losee Road facility in North Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Work schedule: 4/10s, Monday through Thursday, subject to change. U.S. citizenship is required to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance.

Annual salary: $101,982.40–$155,521.60.

Company

hirify.global manages and operates the Nevada National Security Sites for the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, supporting nuclear security missions through high-hazard experimentation facilities and technical services.

What you will do

• Perform blast dynamics, structural response, explosive threat, vulnerability, and protective hardening analyses using computational modeling and physics-based simulations.
• Identify targets, characterize adversaries, assign Protection Levels, and develop Design Basis Threat scenarios for nuclear materials, classified assets, hazards, personnel, and critical infrastructure.
• Develop Figures of Merit, barrier delay timelines, Key Performance Indicators, and pathway simulations to calculate detection, interruption, neutralization, and system effectiveness probabilities.
• Lead risk-based security operations, probabilistic risk assessments, threat-informed decision analytics, and performance-based validation for protective force deployment and resource allocation.
• Design insider threat mitigation frameworks and evaluate physical, operational, and cyber-physical vulnerabilities.
• Advise engineering and project teams, author technical assessments and risk acceptances, brief DOE/NNSA stakeholders, and coordinate analytical methods with national laboratories and federal partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent training and experience, plus 8 years of progressive related experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q-level security clearance, including U.S. citizenship, federal background investigation, drug screening, and possible counterintelligence evaluation or polygraph.
• Expert knowledge of advanced principles, concepts, and theories relevant to safeguards and security analysis, with the ability to resolve highly complex problems.
• Experience working independently on safeguards and security objectives, strategies, operations, and process improvements.
• Ability to build relationships with employees, customers, outside agencies, DOE/NNSA personnel, contractors, and national laboratories while maintaining confidentiality.
• Planning, organizing, prioritization, scheduling, independent judgment, creativity, initiative, attention to detail, and accuracy.
• Ability to understand complex data, terminology, procedures, laws, and regulations and ensure compliance with MSTS, DOE, federal, and state requirements.
• Ability to use analytical, financial, accounting, word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software.
• Valid driver’s license, successful pre-placement physical examination, and compliance with random drug testing requirements.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Pension plan, 401(k), paid time off, and 96 hours of paid holidays.
• Relocation support when located more than 75 miles from the work location.
• Tuition assistance and reimbursement.
• Equal opportunity and drug-free workplace.