Senior Technical Advisor, Medical Simulation & Analytics

Systems Planning & Analysis; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible spending accounts

Health savings accounts

Retirement savings plans

Life and disability insurance

Paid and unpaid time away from work

Job summary

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) is seeking a Technical Advisor (SETA) for Medical Simulation, Human Factors, and Performance Measurement to provide onsite support in Arlington, VA.

The role focuses on advancing DARPA-backed research to create realistic, repeatable mass-casualty simulation environments and to train medical teams using data-driven insights. The candidate will lead technical execution, establish rigorous data-collection methods, and develop scalable data pipelines.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or doctorate in human factors, industrial or systems engineering, cognitive or experimental psychology, biomedical engineering, medical education, medicine, data science, statistics, computer science, applied mathematics, or a related field.
• 9+ years of experience designing and executing simulation-based studies or exercises with human participants.
• Experience with complex, multimodal datasets and reproducible analytic workflows; data ingestion, cleaning, curation, annotation, quality control.
• Expertise in healthcare simulation, human-performance measurement, or medical-training design with clinical or research experience in pre-hospital, trauma, disaster, or critical-care medicine.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams).
• Active Secret clearance and ability to work onsite in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Provide day-to-day technical execution support to a DARPA Program Manager leading research to establish a large-scale mass-casualty simulation environment.
• Define metrics for scenario realism and repeatability and develop data pipelines, curation, annotation, and quality-assurance processes.
• Build cost and resourcing models for a sustainable capability and apply data-science methods to derive actionable performance insights.
• Support analytic evaluation of training interventions and emerging medical technologies.

Skills

Simulation design

Multimodal data workflows

Healthcare simulation

Clearance (Active Secret)

Data science & analytics

Onsite work in Arlington

Education

Master’s degree or doctorate in a related field

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) is seeking a Technical Advisor (SETA) for Medical Simulation, Human Factors, and Performance Measurement to provide onsite support in Arlington, VA.

The role focuses on advancing DARPA-backed research to create realistic, repeatable mass-casualty simulation environments and to train medical teams using data-driven insights. The candidate will lead technical execution, establish rigorous data-collection methods, and develop scalable data pipelines.