At the company, we are developing unmanned systems for subsurface, surface, land, and air domains that will leverage unsupervised autonomy for the delivery of multi-mission capability to our customers. In addition to the physical systems being produced, the company is providing training and experimentation services to our partners and customers. These projects require Warfighting Systems Analysts who can connect operational needs to system architecture, technical performance, integration choices, and mission-level outcomes. We are looking for our next Lead Warfighting Systems Analyst to join our rapidly growing team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The candidate will first be hired into London, UK, before relocating upon completion of the center.
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The Warfighter Simulation Team Lead is a project manager responsible for producing, iterating, and supporting Modeling, Simulation, and Analysis (M&SA) including wargaming and experimentation for the company products. This has a three-fold purpose: Train the customer in the company capabilities, conduct internal analysis to support the iterative improvement of current and future products, and learn the specific customers’ needs to ensure we produce the right product for the right reasons.
As the team leader, you will need to serve as the fusion between analysts, wargamers, system administrators, engineers, and warfighters. You will be responsible for game design, systems, warfighter interactions, and an Agile team of wargaming analysts. This role is ideal for individuals who can reason across military operations and technical systems, lead an interdisciplinary team, and communicate to key stakeholders while keeping the wargaming project on time and budget.
What You'll Do:
- Serve as project manager for standing up a tactical wargaming center in the UAE
- Develop scenarios based on customer needs to demonstrate capabilities
- Design, execute, and analyze tactical (engagement-level and mission-level) analysis and wargames to assess autonomous system capabilities and refine tactics
- Develop physics-based models and relevant operational scenarios, with an emphasis on modeling red and blue force systems and tactics
- Assess system-of-systems interactions, integration risks, dependencies, constraints, and mission impacts
- Lead the wargamers, system administrators, and operations personnel to ensure the center remains operational, providing training services to warfighters, who also participate in wargaming and training
- Collaborate with engineering and business development teams to demonstrate the company's capabilities and value proposition through rigorous, data-driven analysis
Required Qualifications:
- Currently possess and be able to maintain an active country-specific Secret security clearance
- 7+ years of experience in Operations Research, Systems Analysis (ORSA), systems engineering, mission engineering, test and evaluation, or a related technical-operational discipline
- 4+ years of experience in project management, agile project management, SCRUM, KANBAN, etc.
- Experience with tactical experiments and wargaming design, including scenario development, data analytics, and trade-space analysis
- Ability to connect system performance, architecture, and design choices to mission outcomes
- Ability to assess and solve problems and effectively communicate results through strong verbal and written skills
Preferred Qualifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or equivalent
- Ability to obtain and maintain a country-specific Top Secret security clearance
- Experience with DevOps, DevSecOps, and other hardware/software integrations
- Operational military background with a subsequent transition into an ORSA, M&S, or Operations Analyst position
- Familiarity with model-based systems engineering, digital engineering, operational test, or experimentation
- Experience developing KPPs, KSAs, MOEs, MOPs, requirements, test objectives, or system performance assessments
- Experience with defense systems, autonomous systems, maritime systems, undersea systems, sensors, effectors, communications, navigation, C2, or ISR mission systems.
