Senior Space Systems Operations Research Analyst

Astrion; El Segundo, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 121,000; Full time

Job summary

Astrion seeks a Senior Operations Research Analyst in El Segundo, CA to provide SETA support to Space Systems Command, SSC/SN. You will perform quantitative analyses to support acquisition decisions, program execution, risk management, and performance assessments for space-based missile warning and related capabilities.

The role involves developing analytical products, conducting optimization and scenario analyses, and translating results for senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Systems Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Data Science, or a related technical field.
• Master’s degree in Operations Research, Systems Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Apply operations research, statistical analysis, modeling, simulation, and decision-analysis techniques to aerospace/defense problems.
• Develop and evaluate courses of action, trade studies, alternatives analyses, and investment recommendations.
• Analyze cost, schedule, performance, risk, reliability, readiness, and mission-effectiveness data.
• Support mission-level and system-of-systems analyses across space, ground, communications, processing, and C2 segments.
• Develop models, simulations, dashboards, decision-support tools, and analytical products for government leadership.
• Conduct sensitivity analyses, scenario assessments, forecasting, optimization, and predictive analyses.
• Evaluate program risks, dependencies, critical paths, resource constraints, and impacts to operational capability.
• Support integrated master schedule analysis, milestone planning, program health assessments, and readiness reviews.
• Assess performance of missile warning, OPIR, sensor fusion, mission data processing, and sensor-to-shooter capabilities.
• Integrate data from technical, programmatic, operational, financial, and acquisition sources to identify trends and decision drivers.
• Define analytical methodologies, assumptions, measures of effectiveness, measures of performance, and evaluation criteria.
• Validate models and analytical results; document assumptions, limitations, findings, and recommendations.
• Prepare executive briefings, technical reports, decision papers, risk assessments, and data-driven recommendations.
• Participate in IPTs, technical interchange meetings, program reviews, engineering review boards, and customer working groups.

Skills

Operations research

Data analysis

Modeling & simulation

Forecasting

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in OR/related technical field

Master's degree in related discipline

Tools

Modeling & simulation tools

Job description

Astrion seeks a Senior Operations Research Analyst in El Segundo, CA to provide SETA support to Space Systems Command, SSC/SN. You will perform quantitative analyses to support acquisition decisions, program execution, risk management, and performance assessments for space-based missile warning and related capabilities.

The role involves developing analytical products, conducting optimization and scenario analyses, and translating results for senior leadership.