Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis (Defense/Aerospace)

Location: Seattle, Washington; Dallas, Texas; Washington, DC; or Remote. Workplace: On-site.

Salary: $180,000–$270,000 per year. Seattle pay range: $220,000–$330,000 per year. Compensation may vary by work location, experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity.

Company

hirify.global is a venture-backed defense-tech company developing intelligent systems, including autonomy software, autonomous aircraft, and simulation technologies for military and civilian protection.

What you will do

• Plan and execute operational analyses of autonomous systems in representative military scenarios.
• Develop and run modeling, simulation, and wargaming analyses covering system performance, mission impact, survivability, and contested environments.
• Build, modify, and analyze mission-level models using AFSIM, STK, MATLAB, Python, or similar frameworks.
• Conduct trade studies, sensitivity analyses, force-on-force assessments, and sensor and autonomy analyses.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, DoD stakeholders, operators, and analysts to convert findings into system insights and concepts of operations.
• Prepare technical reports and briefings, maintain reproducible analysis pipelines, and coach incoming analysts.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience in operational analysis, modeling and simulation, operations research, defense, or aerospace.
• Active Secret clearance required at minimum.
• Ability to obtain a Top Secret clearance; S//SAR clearance eligibility is desired.
• Working knowledge of military operations, modeling and simulation, data science, and operational analysis techniques.
• Experience with scripting, version control, scalable compute workflows, and reproducible analysis.

Nice to have

• Force-on-force analysis, CONOPS development, or military campaign modeling experience.
• Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes, Brawler, ESAMS, JCIDS, and military operational testing.
• Systems engineering product development experience, including SysML or MBSE.
• Experience leading products from pre-shaping through tactical deployment.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time regular employee package includes salary, bonus, benefits, and equity.
• Benefits and compensation are tied to the position’s work location and qualifications.
• Work with engineering, product, defense, government, and military stakeholders.
• Equal opportunity workplace with accommodation support for applicants with disabilities or special needs.