Senior Staff Engineer, Operations Analysis
f7d8749a-72d6-407c-bf98-292ea630c73a · Posted Nov 9, 2026
- Seattle, Washington, United States
- Full-time · Senior
- 10+ years
Lead operational analysis for Shield AI’s autonomous aircraft systems, driving modeling, simulation, and mission impact assessments to inform product decisions and stakeholder engagement.
Compensation
Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
Responsibilities
- Plan, own and execute operational analyses to assess the effectiveness of autonomous systems in representative military scenarios.
- Develop and run modeling, simulation, and wargaming analyses to evaluate system performance, mission impact, and survivability in contested environments.
- Collaborate with engineering teams and product managers to translate operational findings into actionable system insights.
- Perform trade studies and sensitivity analyses to assess system performance across varying operational conditions, assumptions, and threat environments.
- Build, modify, and analyze mission‑level models using tools such as AFSIM, STK, MATLAB, Python, or similar M&S frameworks.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in science, technology, engineering or math domain
- Nice to have: force‑on‑force analysis
- Nice to have: CONOPS development
- Nice to have: military campaign modeling
- Nice to have: evaluating strategic development