Warfighting Analyst, Junior

About the Role

We are seeking Junior Wargaming Analysts to join our expanding simulation, analysis, gaming, and experimentation team. You'll leverage your background in applying methods such as wargaming, campaign analysis, or defense research to help answer today's most difficult defense and intelligence challenges. As a wargaming analyst, you will design, prepare, and conduct defense and military analysis in support of Department of War and Intelligence Community clients. This includes conducting general research to support warfighting disciplines, COA analysis, strategy development, and organizational processes or procedures. You'll contribute to the design, execution, and delivery of analytic tasks associated with wargames, simulations, and tabletop exercises, including shaping objectives, crafting wargaming constructs, authoring scenarios, facilitating participant discussions, and authoring after-action reports and briefings. We are looking for curious, self-directed analysts who learn material quickly, exhibit creativity and independent thought in design, analysis, and other forms of experimentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, prepare, and conduct defense and military analysis.
• Conduct general research to support warfighting disciplines, COA analysis, strategy development, and organizational processes or procedures.
• Contribute to the design, execution, and delivery of analytic tasks associated with wargames, simulations, and tabletop exercises.
• Shape objectives for analytic tasks.
• Craft wargaming constructs.
• Author scenarios.
• Facilitate participant discussions.
• Author after-action reports and briefings.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Experience with military analysis and wargaming or supporting and conducting formal research.
• Ability to learn and apply new methods, as required by the particular analysis.
• Ability to exhibit a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• Ability to obtain a Secret clearance.
• Bachelor's degree.

Nice If You Have

• Experience designing wargames or analytic studies to answer specific research questions.
• Experience with geospatial visualization tools, including ArcGIS or QGIS.
• Experience with commercial or hobby wargaming, including manual board games.
• Experience with data science, operations research, or modeling and simulation tools and methods.
• Experience with military weapon systems and characteristics.
• Ability to manage events, facilitate team discussions and meetings, and present project results and findings to client audiences.
• Secret clearance.
• Master's degree.

Compensation

The projected compensation range for this position is $62,000.00 to $141,000.00 (annualized USD).