Junior Counterintelligence Analyst

Prescient Edge; Bellevue (NE); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Prescient Edge is seeking a Junior Counterintelligence Analyst to support a federal government client. The role requires specialized threat analysis, OSINT proficiency, and strong analytic writing to produce intelligence products and briefings.

The candidate should have a bachelor's degree and relevant IC/open-source training, with experience in IC databases and complex search queries. Clearances and ongoing professional development are valued in this position.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated specialized training or experience in assessing threats to DoD operations and STRATCOM-related equities.
• Training on JCITA CI Threats & Operations in Cyberspace Seminar within last 5 years; CIRDA course within last 7 years.
• Proven OSINT training or open-source research coursework within last 5 years.
• Strong writing skills to communicate analytic findings clearly to diverse clients; ability to produce multiple intelligence products.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrate advanced intelligence research and analytic tradecraft.
• Author complex search queries in IC databases (RMT, Palantir, NGT, TAC).
• Deliver multiple formal intelligence products and/or briefings with minimal oversight.

Skills

CI threat analysis

Open-source research

IC database queries

Analytic writing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

RMT

Palantir

NGT

TAC

Job description

Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a

Benefits

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Junior Counterintelligence Analyst to support a federal government client.

Benefits

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Security Clearance

• TS/ SCI/ CI POLY or with the ability to obtain one.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated specialized training or experience, capable of assessing FIE threats to: DoD nuclear operations; nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3); integrated missile defense (IMD); through cyberspace to the aforementioned mission equities, and supply chains pertaining to STRATCOM systems and acquisitions. Shall have completed the JCITA CI Threats and Operations in Cyberspace Seminar within the last 5 years. Shall have completed the JCITA CI support to Research, Development, and Acquisition (CIRDA) course within the last 7 years.
• Specialized training on the organizations, capabilities, and tradecraft used by four different foreign intelligence services. Shall possess qualifying training; specifically, the JCITA analysis support to CI functions course AND at least one of the four country threat seminars offered by JCITA, or equivalent offered by another IC organization. To satisfy this requirement, such training shall have been completed within the last 7 years.
• Specialized training on using publicly available information (PAI) and performing open-source research in the furtherance of intelligence analysis and production. Shall have completed at least two of the following Intelligence Community accredited PAI or open-source research training: Basic Open-Source Intelligence Course, Basic OSINT Tradecraft Training, Hidden Universes of Information on the Internet, or OS 101 – Open Source Fundamentals, within the last 5 years.
• Shall demonstrate strong intelligence research and analysis skills, including knowledge of, and ability to apply, Intelligence Community analytic tradecraft and analytic writing styles, as well as a firm understanding of the utility and purpose of multiple production lines. Shall possess experience authoring complex search queries in IC databases, such as RMT, Palantir, Next Generation Trident (NGT), or TAC. Strongly desired and recommended training includes, DIA PACE Essentials, or other IC equivalent analyst-qualifying coursework.
• Shall possess strong writing skills suitable to communicate analytic findings clearly, concisely, and logically to a diverse set of clients. The base analytic team shall be capable of delivering five separate formal intelligence products and/or briefings simultaneously. With minimal Government oversight, contract analysts shall be able to take a concept (key intelligence question) and apply analytic design to create a published intelligence document in adherence with analytic tradecraft standards.

Requirements

Experience

• Have a minimum of three (3) years' experience performing all-source intelligence analysis in the IC and have authored, or co-authored intelligence products released through IC dissemination processes.

Education

• Bachelor's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. An additional 4 years of experience in the specific labor category, for a total of 7 years of experience in the specific labor category, may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.