Technical Advisor, Medical Simulation & Data Analytics SETA

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

Job summary

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

The role requires a strong background in simulation, data science, and healthcare training design, with an active Secret clearance. The candidate will lead day-to-day technical execution, define realism metrics, manage data pipelines, and build cost/resource models for a sustainable capability,

Qualifications

• Master’s degree or doctorate in human factors, industrial or systems engineering, cognitive/experimental psychology, biomedical engineering, medical education, medicine, data science, statistics, CS, applied math, or related field.
• 9+ years of experience designing and executing simulation-based studies or exercises with human participants, including data collection and analysis.
• Experience with complex multimodal datasets and reproducible analytic workflows (data ingestion, cleaning, curation, annotation, quality control, data preparation).
• Expertise in healthcare simulation, human-performance measurement, or medical-training design with clinical/research experience in pre-hospital, trauma, disaster, or critical-care medicine.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, Teams).
• Proficiency in online scientific/technical research and AI tools to accelerate literature review, analysis, and writing.
• Active Secret clearance.
• Able to work fully onsite in Arlington, VA.

Responsibilities

• Provide onsite support to DARPA and lead day-to-day technical execution for a large-scale medical simulation initiative.
• Define metrics for scenario realism and repeatability; establish data pipelines, curation, and QA processes.
• Develop data-driven performance insights from multimodal simulation data and support analytic evaluation of training interventions and new medical technologies.
• Coordinate cost and resource modeling for a sustainable capability and ensure rigorous data collection and analysis workflows.

Skills

Human factors

Data science

Simulation design

Healthcare simulation

Data pipelines

AI analytics

Secret clearance

Onsite Arlington

Education

Master’s degree or PhD in a relevant field

PhD, MD, DO or equivalent

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Teams

Job description

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

The role requires a strong background in simulation, data science, and healthcare training design, with an active Secret clearance. The candidate will lead day-to-day technical execution, define realism metrics, manage data pipelines, and build cost/resource models for a sustainable capability,