Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst — All-Source & AI Tools

General Dynamics IT; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Iron EagleX is seeking a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst to lead all-source analysis and analytic production in Crystal City, VA. You will work with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to translate mission questions into data requirements and create defensible, data-driven assessments for decision-makers.

The role emphasizes rigorous sourcing, model review, and integration of AI-enabled tools within analytic workflows, ensuring operational relevance and mission impact through expert

Qualifications

• Expert-level all-source analysis in intelligence or related mission environments.
• Experience applying structured analytic techniques and confidence statements.
• US Citizenship required; Top Secret/SCI clearance expected or required.

Responsibilities

• Conduct expert-level all-source analysis using structured analytic techniques, intelligence tradecraft, and multiple information sources to produce defensible assessments, insights, and recommendations.
• Analyze complex datasets, reporting streams, operational information, and mission-relevant source material to identify patterns, trends, anomalies, relationships, risks, and intelligence gaps.
• Collaborate with data scientists, data engineers, developers, and analysts to translate mission questions into data requirements, analytic workflows, technical use cases, and measurable outcomes.
• Provide subject matter expertise to support the design, evaluation, and refinement of data models, analytic tools, AI-enabled workflows, and decision-support capabilities.
• Review and assess outputs from data science models, AI tools, search systems, automated extraction processes, and analytic platforms for relevance, accuracy, explainability, and mission value.
• Support the development of analytic methodologies that combine traditional all-source tradecraft with data-driven techniques, automated discovery, knowledge management, and AI-assisted analysis.
• Identify data gaps, quality issues, source limitations, collection shortfalls, and analytic constraints that affect the reliability of assessments or technical outputs.
• Produce written assessments, briefings, analytic notes, and decision-support products tailored to mission, operational, and technical stakeholders.
• Collaborate with full stack developers and data engineers to ensure analytic workflows, tool interfaces, and data access patterns support realistic analyst needs without assuming responsibility for software development or front-end implementation.
• Apply rigorous sourcing, confidence levels, assumptions, alternative analysis, and evidence evaluation to ensure analytic products are transparent, credible, and defensible.
• Support the integration of AI-enabled tools into analytic workflows by testing outputs, identifying failure modes, refining prompts or analytic use cases, and documenting appropriate use cases and limitations.

Skills

All Source Analysis

Data Analytics

Knowledge Management

SOP Development

Workflow Automation

Job description

Iron EagleX is seeking a Senior Principal Intelligence Analyst to lead all-source analysis and analytic production in Crystal City, VA. You will work with data scientists, engineers, and analysts to translate mission questions into data requirements and create defensible, data-driven assessments for decision-makers.

The role emphasizes rigorous sourcing, model review, and integration of AI-enabled tools within analytic workflows, ensuring operational relevance and mission impact through expert