Modeling & Simulation Specialist | AFSIM Gunslinger

at  Infinity Labs

WHO YOU ARE:

Much like your counterparts in the Old West, you are not one to be trifled with. You’re as fearsome as Billy the Kid and as good a shot as Annie Oakley. Your instincts are unrivaled and your brand of justice final. Your weapons of choice; math, multi-lingual programming languages, and caffeine…lots of caffeine.
As AFSIM Gunslinger, your job is to tell customers what the modeling and simulation framework can do, could do, and won’t do. You should understand the framework architecture so well that others think you invented it or were present when the GOTS tool was born. You should know how to integrate models from other tools and frameworks much like the outlaws of old who used many weapons as part of a greater arsenal. From that knowledge, depth, and breadth of understanding, you’ve gained a reputation as a cold-blooded developer capable of meeting deliverable times, hunting down and finding complex scripting issues, and sniffing-out trouble in proposed engineering solutions. You detest proprietary solutions from other vendors and reject them with great force.

WHO WE ARE:

Infinity Labs is an innovation-focused company with expertise in modeling, simulation, and analysis (MS&A), research and development (R&D), cyber operational technology, and training. Our project portfolio is exceptionally broad and encompasses a wide spectrum of physical scale and applications (e.g., materials, components, subsystems, platforms, and system of systems). We integrate science and systems as part of our overall solutioning approach, and we investigate advanced concepts and technologies with disruptive application potential. The sophistication of our work directly reflects the ingenuity and proficiency of our team. Our workforce shapes the future, and our employees are our greatest asset.

QUALIFICATIONS/WHAT YOU’LL BRING:

• BS or BA degree in a math, physics, or engineering discipline
• Verifiable experience supporting government (military) programs
• Prior project experience utilizing the Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration, and Modeling (AFSIM) and an understanding of how modeling & simulation supports the decision making process
• US Citizenship is required for consideration, as this job requires US government security clearance.
• Nice to have – Secret level clearance
• Acceptable – No current clearance but eligibility to obtain

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position and work on a computer for prolonged periods
  This job description provides a high-level review of the responsibilities of the position. Other job-related duties or requirements may be assigned as necessary.

You will configure digital representations of complex military systems to support operational utility, asset vulnerability, and concept of operations assessments within a synthetic simulation environment. You will work with domain experts to understand the nuances of specific systems (or classes of systems) and use abstraction techniques to model them at the mission-level. You will assemble known information when available and use engineering judgement to fill in the blanks to represent real world hardware, software, or processes used in military operations.
You will coordinate with other model developers to plug capabilities into a greater system-of-systems environment used to analyze large scale mission vignettes. In the process, you will become a subject matter expert in the system types that you model.
You must be able to manage your time effectively and interface with customers regularly. In addition, beyond simply meeting project milestones and deadlines, the ideal candidate sees modeling & simulation as a tool to empower decision makers and provides capabilities at the speed of relevance rather than endlessly pursuing “the perfect model”.