Mission Systems Analyst

Rincon Research Corporation; Tucson (AZ); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical and dental insurance

ESOP participation

401(k) plan

Flexible spending accounts

Disability insurance

Job summary

Rincon Research Corporation is seeking a Mission Intelligence Analyst to support DoD/IC customers. You will work with engineers and analysts to ensure capabilities meet end-user needs and mission workflows.

The role emphasizes translating operational experience into practical requirements and lessons learned. Ideal candidates have 3+ years in signals intelligence or related fields, and hold an active TS/SCI clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in signals intelligence, electronic warfare, or related technical analysis field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance.
• Experience in DoD/IC mission environments and analyst workflows.
• Ability to translate operational experience into requirements and use cases.

Responsibilities

• Serve as mission and end-user representative within multidisciplinary teams.
• Communicate complex mission concepts to diverse stakeholders clearly.
• Provide ongoing mission context and direction throughout development.
• Participate in capability design sessions and demonstrations.
• Develop mission scenarios, test cases, and evaluation criteria.
• Analyze data and system outputs for relevance and mission value.
• Document findings and recommendations for leadership and customers.
• Support customer demonstrations, training, and knowledge transfer.

Skills

Signals intelligence

Operational environments

Communication skills

Training delivery

Agile practices

Tools

Excel

SQL

Python

Job description

Why Join Rincon Research Corporation (RRC)?

At Rincon Research Corporation, our primary business is innovating, developing, and fielding digital signal processing (DSP) products and services for the United States Defense and Intelligence Communities in support of national security.

Rincon Research Corporation (RRC), an employee-owned company, is seeking a Mission Intelligence Analyst to support the development and delivery of advanced capabilities for Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) customers.

The Mission Intelligence Analyst will work alongside software engineers, systems engineers, data scientists, and other technical staff to ensure capabilities are designed around real-world mission needs and end-user workflows. Drawing on direct experience in intelligence or operational environments, this individual will provide the mission context and user perspective needed to translate operational challenges into effective technical solutions. This role is well suited for an intelligence professional interested in expanding into mission-focused technology development. The successful candidate does not need to be a software developer, but should be technically curious, comfortable working with data and software applications, and able to communicate effectively across mission, technical, and customer communities.

What are the primary responsibilities for the Mission Systems Analyst position?

• Serve as a mission and end-user representative within multidisciplinary technical development teams, ensuring operational needs, analyst workflows, constraints, and priorities are understood throughout the development process.
• Communicate complex mission concepts, workflows, and analytical processes clearly to software engineers, systems engineers, data scientists, Program Managers, customers, and other technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Work directly with technical teams throughout the development lifecycle to provide continuous mission context, feedback, and direction.
• Participate in capability design sessions, technical demonstrations, prototype evaluations, and development reviews, providing a strong end-user perspective.
• Exercise and evaluate prototypes and software capabilities from an analyst's perspective and provide clear, structured, and actionable feedback to development teams.
• Develop representative mission scenarios, workflows, test cases, and evaluation criteria to support development, testing, and validation.
• Conduct user acceptance, functional, and mission-oriented testing to determine whether capabilities meet intended operational needs.
• Analyze and interpret data, system outputs, and analytical results produced by developmental capabilities, assessing their relevance, accuracy, usability, and mission value.
• Compare system-generated outputs against source data, expected outcomes, or analyst assessments to help evaluate capability performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Document and communicate observations, findings, test results, recommendations, and capability gaps to technical teams, program leadership, customers, and other stakeholders.
• Support customer demonstrations, technical exchanges, exercises, capability evaluations, and other mission-engagement activities.
• Assist with the development and delivery of user training, capability familiarization, demonstrations, training materials, and other knowledge-transfer activities.
• Gather feedback from users during demonstrations, training, exercises, and evaluations and translate that feedback into recommendations for the development team.

What required background will make you successful?

• Minimum 3+ years of experience in signals intelligence, electronic warfare, or related technical analysis field.
• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Practical experience operating within DoD and/or Intelligence Community mission environments, with an understanding of operational workflows, mission priorities, and end-user needs.
• Experience analyzing and interpreting intelligence, operational data, system outputs, or other mission-relevant information to develop insights and support decision-making.
• Working knowledge of the intelligence cycle, intelligence reporting, mission planning, and operational processes.
• Experience working with one or more intelligence disciplines, mission areas, or operational domains such as SIGINT, GEOINT, OSINT, MASINT, all-source intelligence, ISR, Electronic Warfare (EW), or related mission areas.
• Ability to understand and communicate how analysts and operators interact with data, tools, systems, and information sources to accomplish mission objectives.
• Experience collaborating with operational users, intelligence professionals, technical personnel, and other mission stakeholders.
• Ability to recognize mission and workflow gaps and translate operational experience into meaningful requirements, use cases, test scenarios, and recommendations for capability development.
• Familiarity with the security, information-handling, and operational considerations associated with working in a classified environment.

Preferred Skills:

• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver training, instruction, workshops, demonstrations, or capability familiarization for intelligence analysts, operators, or other government users.
• Ability to create effective training materials, user guides, standard operating procedures, quick-reference materials, and other user-facing documentation.
• Strong briefing and presentation skills with the ability to engage government customers, operational users, technical teams, and senior stakeholders.
• Skilled in facilitating user feedback sessions, requirements discussions, working groups, and technical exchanges and translating discussions into actionable outcomes.
• Background in all-source intelligence analysis or another intelligence discipline within a DoD or IC environment.
• Working knowledge of intelligence, mission-planning, data-analysis, and other operational software applications.
• Hands-on participation in software testing, user acceptance testing, capability evaluations, exercises, or operational assessments.
• Familiarity with Agile software development practices and working as part of multidisciplinary software or systems engineering teams.
• Ability to develop and refine use cases, user stories, workflows, test scenarios, and operational requirements based on mission and end-user needs.
• Working knowledge of data analysis tools and techniques, including Excel, SQL, Python, visualization tools, or similar technologies.
• Interest in applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, large language models (LLMs), and agentic AI technologies to intelligence and operational mission challenges.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled analytical tools and approaches for assessing the quality, relevance, reliability, and mission utility of AI-generated outputs.
• Understanding of intelligence data sources, collection disciplines, analytical methodologies, and intelligence production processes.
• Background supporting demonstrations, experimentation, exercises, rapid prototyping, or capability development efforts in operational or mission-focused environments.

What benefits does RRC offer?

• 100% employer-paid premiums for family medical and dental insurance, employee life insurance, short-term and long-term disability (STD & LTD)
• Flexible reimbursement spending accounts for medical expense and dependent care
• Immediate participation and vesting in the company's Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) and 401(k) Plan
• Employer contributions to RRC's ESOP
• Employer matching contributions to the company's 401(k) Plan
• Employer discretionary contributions to the company's 401(k) Plan

Rincon Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.