FAST Labs

Job Description

Ready to make a difference? Our employees design, integrate, and test the world's next generation communication and electronic warfare systems for the United States DoD 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 Operations (MDO), systems-of-systems (SoS) Mission Assessments and effectively communicate the value of BAE Systems products to customers, DoD 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 is seeking a highly motivated, experienced Threat Analyst to join the Mission Assessments team to and analyze various intelligence data to support our analysis mission. A Threat Analyst is responsible for working directly with Government Intel products and analysts to gather the data needed to fully understand the threats and lead the production of the threat models in support of Mission Analysis. The Threat Analyst is also responsible for supporting a library of threat data and models that are up to date and available for Mission Analysis Studies.

The Threat Analyst reports to the MA Technical Director. They will work with the MA Tech Director, Threat Team Lead, Mission Area Leads, and Study Managers to support operational analysis studies executed by MA Analysts with threat models. They will also support each Business Area Technical Directors and the Business Area Product Lines with threat information required to perform on their respective contracts. The Threat Analyst should have a deep understanding of the various intelligence products available to build models of the threats and how to obtain them. They should have an understanding of BAE Systems technology areas such as integrated Electronic Warfare (EW) systems including Electronic Attack (EA), Electronic Protection (EP) and Electronic Support (ES) for RF sensing, detection, identification, geolocation, and jamming; infrared (IR) imaging, guidance, survivability and targeting; C4ISR for actionable intelligence including SIGINT, EO/IR, Multi-INT, and hyperspectral solutions; and information technologies including fusion and dynamic mission battle management.

The ideal Threat Analyst candidate has experience with threat analysis, Intel products and organizations, modeling and simulation, and/or EW technologies. Threat Analyst candidates should have experience building presentations and presenting threat information to senior leaders, and have experience being responsible for a team's technical output.

Responsibilities include:

• Interface with customers, especially product line or business area technical directors and other technical staff, as the primary POC for threat models and libraries.
• Responsible for the technical execution and subject matter expertise of a threat analyses.
• Take direction from the MA Tech Director, MA Treat Lead, and MA Engineering Lead regarding tradecraft, prioritization, and execution of studies and tasks.
• Work with Study Managers and Study Leads to build threat models that support MA Studies.
• Brief threat Intel and Model updates, providing recommendations and threat expertise to product line and business area tech directors, other BA technical staff to help keep the technical teams up to date on the lates threat data.
• Build and contribute to IR&D plans, identify IR&D needs and priorities, and lead threat related IR&D technical execution
• Build and maintain a Sector level threat library that supports the wide variety of efforts across the ES Sector, including periodic updates to BA technical staff on key threats of interest.
• Prepare for and Conduct EW Days annual Intel Symposium update to Sector Staff

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Active Secret Clearance and ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI and SAP clearances
• Typically a bachelor's degree in a STEM field and 4+ years technical experience (MS and 2+ years preferred).
• Critical thinking skills that will be exercised across multiple levels of detail.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communications skills ranging from technical briefings to executive level presentations.
• Experience developing and using analysis tools such as MATLAB, Python, C/C++, or similar tools.
• Experience using mission simulation tools such as AFSIM, DIADS, JSE, BRAWLER, STK, TMAP, ESAMS, etc.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Active Top Secret / SCI Clearance
• Expertise in Electronic Warfare, Weapons, Optics, or Communications
• Experience with DoD warfighting operations in any domain
• Experience with collaborative Modeling and Simulation environments and the DoD OA community.
• Knowledge of mission simulation driven by Model Based Systems Engineering
• Knowledge of DevSecOps and DevSecOps pipeline driven by mission simulation-enabled test environments.
• Experience with tools, infrastructure, and security constraints of DoD environments.

Pay Information

Full-Time Salary Range: $ $

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 the U.S. subsidiary of BAE Systems plc, an international defense, aerospace and security company which delivers a full range of products and services for air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology solutions and customer support services. Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it's what we do at BAE Systems. Working here means using your passion and ingenuity where it counts – defending national security with breakthrough technology, superior products, and intelligence solutions. As you develop the latest technology and defend national security, you will continually hone your skills on a team—making a big impact on a global scale. At BAE Systems, you'll find a rewarding career that truly makes a difference. Electronic Systems (ES) is the global innovator behind BAE Systems' game-changing defense and commercial electronics. Exploiting every electron, we push the limits of what is possible, giving our customers the edge and our employees opportunities to change the world. Our products and capabilities can be found everywhere – from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of space. At our core are more than 14,000 highly talented Electronic Systems employees with the brightest minds in the industry, we make an impact – for our customers and the communities we serve.

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.