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Staff Operations Analyst, Mission Engineering, Air Dominance & Strike, Active Clearance

Costa Mesa, CA (OC-00)💼 Full-time💰 $220,000–$220,000🗓 2026-08-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop model-driven analysis and simulations to guide business strategy, inform requirements, and investigate concepts of employment for defense technologies.

Role type

Staff Operations Analyst (Mission Engineering)

Builds

Physics-based analyses, mission-level simulations, and analytical artifacts for demonstration events

Domain

Defense technology, Mission Systems & Analysis (MS&A), Air Dominance & Strike

Deliverable

production ML models | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

AFSIM scripting, Python, MATLAB, Simulink, Platform MS&A modeling, Payload MS&A modeling, Scientific method application, Technical writing

Preferred skills

DoD Top Secret clearance eligibility, Operations Analysis study leadership, Signal processing, RF propagation modeling

Technologies

AFSIM, Python, MATLAB, Simulink

Responsibilities

Engage stakeholders to translate questions into physics-based analyses, design experiments using mission-level simulations, generate clear analytical artifacts with actionable conclusions, quantify technology delivery to warfighters

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic impact

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