Strategic Mission Architect — Defense Ops & Analysis

Chaos Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 160,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401k match

Free daily lunch onsite

Unlimited PTO

Relocation assistance

Job summary

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Strategic Mission Engineering Lead in Washington, DC, to apply recent military operational experience to the design, testing, and fielding of defense products. You will guide models, simulations, and CONOPS across Air Defense, C-UAS, and related programs, influencing product requirements and business development.

The role requires operating with limited guidance in a fast-paced environment, delivering practical solutions to operational problems, and briefing senior

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher, or equivalent military operational and analytical experience.
• 5+ years of experience supporting defense, intelligence, or advanced technology programs.
• Recent experience planning and executing military operations – Air Defense, C-UAS, fires, ISR, or related mission areas.
• Direct experience employing sensing and effecting capabilities against a peer or near-peer adversary.
• Demonstrated ability to operate with limited guidance: define the problem, set the approach, and deliver.
• Track record of generating creative, practical solutions to operational problems and carrying them through to adoption.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional efforts spanning operations, engineering, product, and business development teams.

Responsibilities

• Support execution of the mission engineering and operations analysis strategy across CHAOS's Air Defense, C-UAS, and related product development and business development efforts.
• Translate current and future concepts of operation – including US and allied force standard operating procedures (SOPs) and tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) for static and mobile forces – into mission engineering and operations analysis design.
• Identify unmet operational needs across the kill chain and generate creative, practical solutions, working with engineering and product teams to turn them into capability concepts, CONOPS, and study designs.
• Enable the translation of validated intelligence community products on adversary air, missile, and related threat systems into modeling parameters, scenario constructs, and red force order of battle for mission-level simulations.
• Lead blue force CONOP-informed scenario development across all domains, ensuring scenarios reflect credible blue force CONOPS, doctrine, and projected capabilities, not generic boilerplate.
• Validate blue force operating models, assumptions, and simulation outputs against authoritative source data and operational experience; engage customer users and partners to resolve discrepancies and refresh representations as new CONOPS and CONEMPS are developed.
• Maintain continuous awareness of adversary threats, capabilities, and evolving TTPs – drawing on intelligence community reporting, operational lessons learned, and open-source analysis – and ensure threat representations in models, scenarios, and studies remain current.
• Brief CONOP assessments, scenario rationale, and analytical findings to senior technical leadership, program executives, and government customers, including DoD, DARPA, and IC stakeholders up to the flag/SES level, to inform requirements development and CHAOS advantage.
• Partner with engineers, data scientists, and analysts to translate operational and intelligence questions into well-structured analytical approaches. Push back when the question being asked isn't the right one.
• Stay forward of emerging blue force capabilities, doctrine, TTPs/SOPs, and technologies, and shape study designs to address what's coming.
• Serve as a primary interface to US and allied partner operators and air defenders, including support to classified data exchanges and mission data accreditation.
• Support programs spanning DoD services, DARPA, intelligence community, and commercial customers, and partner with engineering, product, growth, and customer teams to shape new business pursuits.

Skills

Military ops experience

Strategic analysis

Threat modeling

Executive briefing

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher (or equivalent military operational/analytical experience)

Job description

CHAOS Industries is seeking a Strategic Mission Engineering Lead in Washington, DC, to apply recent military operational experience to the design, testing, and fielding of defense products. You will guide models, simulations, and CONOPS across Air Defense, C-UAS, and related programs, influencing product requirements and business development.

The role requires operating with limited guidance in a fast-paced environment, delivering practical solutions to operational problems, and briefing senior