Sr. Operations Research Analyst/Mission-Level Modeler

at  Acuity Innovations

Acuity Innovations LLC is a small, woman-owned defense contracting company that provides enterprise architecture, solution design, digital engineering, defensive cyberspace operations, system integration, and test and evaluation products and services that improve performance and decrease decision timelines. Our fundamental, repeatable service offering is bound in architecting, designing, securing, integrating, and verifying the operational readiness of data ecosystems.

Do you want to be part of a unique, small business that differentiates itself by:

• delivering the best products, integrated systems, and mission capabilities for the warfighter
• building long-term relationships and treating its employees as family
• deploying small but powerful High-Performance Teams, like elite Special Forces teams to each task
• collaborating within and across the Acuity Innovations teams as well as with the customer
• providing a growth path to partnership/ownership opportunities

If you have this type of passion and desire to be part of a collaborative team environment with the innovation, initiative, and confidence to make things better, then Acuity Innovations may be the right place to realize your personal and professional goals.

Package includes:

• Competitive salary
• 3 weeks paid time off
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Flexible Hours
• Benefits
• Career Development/Mentorship Opportunities
• Company Sponsored Social Events

We seek technical individuals who will succeed in a highly collaborative work environment.
https://acuityinnovationsllc.com
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Seeking an Operations Research Analyst for mission-level combat modeling to join our team at Peterson SFB in Colorado Springs, CO. An active TS/SCI clearance is required.
Qualified candidates should be adept at effectively organizing and executing analytic studies within a team of analysts containing skills spanning a range of disciplines. Experience and familiarity with the space domain and mission-level models/tools like System Effectiveness Analysis Simulation (SEAS) or Advanced Framework for Simulation, Integration and Modeling (AFSIM) is required.

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master of Science degree in operations research or a theoretical science field
• 7 years of experience (or 3 with a Ph.D.)
• Experience conducting end-to-end combat modeling & simulation analyses at the mission level
• Experience with SEAS and/or AFSIM
• Willingness to learn and employ campaign-level and/or defense enterprise-level models
• High motivation, creativity, and flexibility to work in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• Strong quantitative and analytic abilities to integrate and analyze data
• An active TS/SCI clearance

PREFERRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• PhD in Operations Research or a theoretical science field
• Experience with more highly aggregated, campaign-level and/or defense enterprise-level analysis tools
• Experience in DoD space and joint force programs
• Experience with STORM or other related models
• Experience with Java, MATLAB, R, SAS, JMP, and/or Python
• Experience with data transformations and data visualization
• Experience with Structured Query Language (SQL) and MySQL or other relational databases
• Experience with BI Tools
• Experience with Excel VBA

• Utilizing studies and analyses, specifically a strong background in mission-level modeling and simulation, the analyst will make recommendations regarding the military utility, feasibility, joint warfighter impacts of the concepts and capabilities under study
• Ability to coordinate with senior managers and decision makers to identify and solve a variety of problems and to clarify management objectives
• Work as part of a contractor team working alongside a broader team of government and contract staff