Modeling & Simulation Analyst/Developer

LMI; Tysons (VA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI is seeking a skilled Forward Deployed Engineer in the Washington, DC region to join their M&S customer development teams. This hybrid role involves integrating advanced technologies into business processes and requires strong technical skills and communication.

The candidate must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience. This dynamic position offers opportunities to work closely with customers and contribute to impactful government solutions while requiring a Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in performing complex data analytics including building AI/ML models.
• Experience briefed and engaged with DoD customers.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain analytical models within RAPTR.
• Perform testing and validation of models and code.
• Collaborate with RAPTR software engineers to optimize simulations.

Skills

AI/ML model building

Data analytics

Problem-solving

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

M&S tools

Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Job description

Overview

LMI is seeking a skilled Forward Deployed Engineer in the Washington, DC region to join one of our M&S customer development teams. Successful Forward Deployed Engineers demonstrate competency in integrating advanced technologies into existing business processes, building new functionality, ensuring successful software development, analysis, or deployments, and working closely with customers. This role requires a combination of technical skills, strong communication, and the ability to quickly turn ideas into production caliber code. This role will work and engage directly with customers on-site, in a hybrid format, or remotely, as required by each customer including the potential for occasional short-term travel to customer locations across the United States.

This is a hybrid (onsite/remote) role. This position requires the ability to obtain a Secret clearance. You must be a U.S. citizen.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and energy sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain analytical models within our M&S capability called RAPTR.
• Perform testing and validation of models and code to ensure accurate outputs.
• Perform operations research analyses with RAPTR to answer client questions and recommend efficient courses of action.
• Participate in client meetings to understand requirements and to brief your technical findings and analyses.
• Collaborate with other RAPTR software engineers, modelers, and analysts to optimize performance for large-scale simulations.
• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting to ensure system reliability and availability.
• Troubleshoot issues across cloud infrastructure, networks, and simulation workloads.
• Stay current with advances in cloud technologies and recommend improvements to enhance RAPTR capabilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, ORSA, Data Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 5+ years in performing complex data analytics such as building AI/ML models, or physics-based models.
• Previous experience with modeling and simulation (M&S) tools.
• Experience with briefing and engaging with DoD customers.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance. You must be a U.S. citizen.

Desired Qualifications

• Experience supporting modeling and simulation platforms or compute-intensive applications.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance.
• Knowledge of DoD cloud security requirements (IL4/IL5, FedRAMP, CMMC).
• Experience working in Agile development teams.