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Department Summary: This is an opportunity for a creative Operations Research Analyst to join MITRE’s Operations Analysis department. We are a large group of over 60 operations research professionals, including over 20 PhDs, who provide thought leadership on a variety of strategic and technical issues, perform analysis that enable our sponsors to make more effective decisions, lead internal research and development activities to bring new technical capabilities into the public sector, and serve as trusted third-party advisors to government sponsors on a variety of technical topics .
In short, we apply our problem-solving skills to complex interdisciplinary problems that occur within or at the intersection of organizations, operations, and technology. We support sponsor projects across the defense and public sectors including military logistics, radio-spectrum frequency management, health care delivery, cybersecurity analytics, fraud detection, satellite planning, homeland security and civilian aviation.
We apply advanced analytic techniques such as longitudinal analysis, large-scale integer programming, metaheuristics, agent-based modeling, reinforcement learning, predictive modeling, mathematical modeling, forecasting, machine learning, optimization, statistics, probability modeling, Bayesian analysis, and different types of simulation to solve the nation’s toughest problems. And our research pushes the boundaries on topics such as complex scheduling, medical image analysis, and identifying changes in data streams.
If you are passionate about project-based analytical work in the public interest, you have found the right place. Roles & Responsibilities: Apply advanced analytical and mathematical techniques to make difficult policy and acquisition decisions, to maximize operational effectiveness and efficiency, and achieve highest quality engineering solutions Frame problems, collect and manipulate data, develop & code customized algorithms, identify risks, and incorporate domain-specific context, as necessary & applicable, to supplement and enhance insight gained solely from mathematical analyses Present results in an intuitive, actionable manner that can be understood by all sponsor audiences, regardless of technical expertise, including data visualization & graphs to support actionable recommendations Work independently and/or collaborate with a team of technical staff Work successfully in a hybrid environment with majority in-person presence Basic Qualifications: Typically requires a minimum of 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research, Industrial Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science or equivalent Knowledge and skills in a related field; or 3 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with relevant experience who can immediately contribute at this job step; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
Demonstrated ability to use at least one modern programming language (e.g., Python, R, Java, C++) Demonstrated ability to use Python with limited coding assistance Show evidence of knowledge of principles, concepts, methods and t