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Job Description
Do you like to use your analytic skills and operational mindset to help protect America, our citizens, and interests? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world’s next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoW and international customers. You will be among the brightest minds, working on the aerospace and defense industry’s most difficult problems. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with us.
BAE Systems’ Mission Assessments (MA) organization is revolutionizing how mission-level operational analysis is planned, executed, and delivered. The Mission Assessments organization was created to address the rapidly increasing demand for mission-level operational analysis. Our mission is to achieve excellence in multidomain (MDO), systems-of-systems (SoS) Mission Assessments and effectively communicate the value of BAE Systems products to customers, DoW leadership and the warfighter. To do this we must bring together models of advanced technologies, weapons, platforms, and threats in relevant mission simulations – and then apply our deep subject matter expertise and experience to deliver assessments that can change the world.
BAE Systems’ Mission Assessments team is seeking highly motivated problem solvers to join the Operations Analysis team. Working as Operations Analysts they will collaborate with design teams assessing threats, developing and quantifying operational level systems requirements, developing operational systems concepts, and assessing mission effectiveness in simulated environments. The analyst will perform operational analysis studies using a wide variety of DoW existing and self-developed modeling & simulation tools.
Duties and Responsibilities may include:
- Perform mission simulation using government or industry standard tools to determine mission effectiveness.
- Perform engagement simulation using standard tools, MATLAB, Simulink and others.
- Perform modeling and simulation studies that optimize mission performance for weapon systems across the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.
- Develop and apply advanced software and systems methods, theories and research techniques in the investigation, analysis and solution of complex and advanced technical problems.
- Visualization of the battlespace at a mission or engagement level.
- Use, develop, and modifying tools to support:
- Data analysis of simulation or flight test results
- Requirements analysis
Required Education, Experience, & Skills
- Typically a degree in a technical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or Operations Research, and 4 years of experience with a Bachelors or 2 years of experience with a Masters
- Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, VBA, C/C , or similar tools is required.
- Candidate must have a Secret clearance and the ability to obtain a Top Secret DoW clearance with SCI accesses
Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills
- The candidate will have critical thinking skills that will be exercised across multiple levels of detail.
- The candidate should enjoy problem solving and have the ability to produce concrete results despite significant ambiguities in the problem space.
- Experience in multiple tools such as AFSIM, STK, TMAP, ESAMS, or EWIR is a plus, AFSIM preferred
- Top Secret clearance is a plus
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $97008 - $164914
Please note: This range is based on our market pay structures. However, individual salaries are determined by a variety of factors including, but not limited to: business considerations, local market conditions, and internal equity, as well as candidate qualifications, such as skills, education, and experience.
Employee Benefits: At BAE Systems, we support our employees in all aspects of their life, including their health and financial well-being. Regular employees scheduled to work 20 hours per week are offered: health, dental, and vision insurance; health savings accounts; a 401(k) savings plan; disability coverage; and life and accident insurance. We also have an employee assistance program, a legal plan, and other perks including discounts on things like home, auto, and pet insurance. Our leave programs include paid time off, paid holidays, as well as other types of leave, including paid parental, military, bereavement, and any applicable federal and state sick leave. Employees may participate in the company recognition program to receive monetary or non-monetary recognition awards. Other incentives may be available based on position level and/or job specifics.
About BAE Systems Electronic Systems
BAE Systems, Inc. is a defense, aerospace, and security company headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia, with more than 40,000 employees worldwide. We serve, supply, and protect those who protect us. As one of the most geographically diverse international defense companies, we deliver a full range of products and services spanning air, land, maritime, space, and cyber, including advanced electronics, intelligence solutions, and dedicated customer support.
Our culture is performance-driven and values-led, built on curiosity, creativity, and collaboration. Purpose isn't a tagline here. It's what drives us. We're developing breakthrough technologies that defend national security and make a lasting impact on our communities and our planet. When you join BAE Systems, you're not just building a career. You're contributing to a mission that truly matters.
This position will be posted for at least 5 calendar days. The posting will remain active until the position is filled, or a qualified pool of candidates is identified.
Salary : $97,008 - $164,914