# Senior Operations Analyst

**Company**: Shield AI
**Location**: Washington, DC
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $123,199 - $184,799 a year
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

**Apply**: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/99975ad6-3b57-494b-9374-b46a761a097e
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_35d67e7d-685

## Description

We are seeking an Operational Analyst to contribute to the modeling, simulation, and analysis of Shield AI's autonomous systems. In this role, you will perform mission-level analyses to evaluate the effectiveness, survivability, and operational impact of our autonomy solutions across multiple platforms and domains.

This position requires a strong working knowledge of military operations, modeling & simulation (M&S), data science, and operational analysis techniques. Your analyses will directly support product decisions and customer engagements by helping demonstrate how Shield AI's AI-powered platforms perform in realistic and contested operational environments.

### Responsibilities:

- Execute operational analyses to assess the effectiveness of autonomous systems in representative military scenarios.

- Develop and run modeling, simulation, and wargaming analyses to evaluate system performance, mission impact, and survivability in contested environments.

- Collaborate with engineering teams and product managers to translate operational findings into actionable system insights.

- Perform trade studies and sensitivity analyses to assess system performance across varying operational conditions, assumptions, and threat environments.

- Build, modify, and analyze mission-level models using tools such as AFSIM, STK, MATLAB, Python, or similar M&S frameworks.

- Analyze force-on-force engagements, sensor performance, and autonomy-enabled behaviors to support mission effectiveness assessments.

- Engage with DoD stakeholders, operators, and analysts to understand mission needs and operational constraints.

- Contribute to the development and refinement of concepts of operations (CONOPS) for AI-enabled aircraft capabilities.

- Monitor emerging threats and operational challenges relevant to autonomous and air combat systems.

- Prepare technical documentation, analysis reports, and briefings for internal teams, customers, and government stakeholders.

- Apply modern compute and development best practices (e.g., version control, scripting, scalable compute workflows, and reproducible analysis) to build and maintain reliable analysis pipelines.

## Skills

### Required
- military operations
- modeling & simulation (M&S)
- data science
- operational analysis techniques
- AFSIM
- STK
- MATLAB
- Python

### Nice to have
- force-on-force analysis
- CONOPS development
- military campaign modeling
- DoD acquisition processes
- Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS)
- military operational testing
- AI-driven decision-making algorithms
- prior military service