Senior ORSA: Optimization & Prescriptive Analytics

N2IA Technologies; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

N2IA Technologies in Washington, DC is seeking an Operations Research / Systems Analyst (ORSA) focused on optimization and mathematical programming to improve resource allocation across federal vetting and investigations.

The role requires expert use of solvers like Gurobi/CPLEX, strong Python optimization skills, and the ability to translate complex models for senior decision-makers, with a secret clearance preferred.

Qualifications

• 8+ years applying mathematical optimization to real-world problems.
• 3–5 years supporting DoD or IC mission areas such as personnel vetting or counterintelligence.
• Expert-level proficiency with linear, integer, and mixed-integer programming.
• Experience with optimization solvers (Gurobi, CPLEX, open-source options).
• Strong Python or R optimization libraries and data analytics.
• Ability to translate results for non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in secure (classified) environments and active or obtainable secret clearance.
• Bachelor degree in quantitative field.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and solve optimization models for resource allocation.
• Develop and implement optimization algorithms for complex assignment problems.
• Apply constraint programming and heuristics to large-scale problems.
• Build decision support tools to explore tradeoffs and guide deployment decisions.
• Present results to senior leadership and collaborate with data engineers.

Skills

Mathematical optimization

Resource allocation

Prescriptive analytics

Python

R (statistical)

Optimization modeling libraries

Problem formulation

Constraint programming

Trade-off analysis

Education

Bachelor degree in Operations Research

Applied Mathematics

Industrial Engineering

Tools

Gurobi

CPLEX

FICO Xpress

Pyomo

PuLP

OR-Tools

COIN-OR

Job description

N2IA Technologies in Washington, DC is seeking an Operations Research / Systems Analyst (ORSA) focused on optimization and mathematical programming to improve resource allocation across federal vetting and investigations.

The role requires expert use of solvers like Gurobi/CPLEX, strong Python optimization skills, and the ability to translate complex models for senior decision-makers, with a secret clearance preferred.