Mission Engineering and Operational Analysis SME

• Serve as a Mission Engineering and Operational Analysis subject matter expert directly supporting Joint Staff, Combatant Commands, Military Services, Intelligence Community partners, and analytic institutions.
• Leverage operational experience and established relationships within warfighter and planning organizations to accelerate study initiation, validate mission constructs, and ensure analytic credibility.
• Coordinate the collection of authoritative operational, intelligence, threat, and planning data needed to build mission context, scenarios, and analytic artifacts.
• Facilitate alignment between mission owners and engineering teams, ensuring assumptions, constraints, and planned analyses match realworld mission execution.
• Support validation of architectures, mission threads, and modeling assumptions through continuous engagement with stakeholders and subjectmatter authorities.
• Provide operational insight to improve the fidelity of mission engineering products, including mission characterization, MET/MT development, and M&S design.
• Maintain documentation of stakeholder engagements, data lineage, analytic assumptions, and coordination workflows to support repeatable, transparent ME practices.

• 15 years of experience in military operations, operational planning, intelligence support, mission engineering, or operational analysis within DoD organizations.
• 7 years of direct experience working with Joint Staff, CCMDs, Service component staff, or IC organizations in mission planning, capability development, or operational analysis roles.
• 3 years supporting mission engineering, concept development, mission thread creation, scenario development, mission characterization, or constructive analysis efforts.
• Demonstrated experience collecting, validating, and synthesizing authoritative operational and threat data from warfighter and intelligence organizations.
• Working knowledge of Joint operational constructs, planning processes, and multidomain mission execution.
• Proven ability to communicate complex operational issues to engineering teams and represent technical findings to operational decision-makers.

• Bachelor's degree in Operations Research, Engineering, National Security Studies, Intelligence Studies, or related technical discipline; OR
• Certificate from advanced Professional Military Education (PME) relevant to Military Training and/or Military Planning.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Experience with enhanced security efforts highly desired.

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  Interesting Work:
  
  
  
  Our co-workers support some of the most important and critical programs to our national defense and security.
  
  
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  Values:
  
  
  
  Our first core value is that employees come first. We challenge our co-workers to provide the highest level of support and service, and reward them with some of the best benefits in the industry.
  
  
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  100% Employee Owned:
  
  
  
  We have a stake in each other's success, and the success of our customers. It's also nice to know what's going on across the company; we have company wide town-hall meetings three times a year.
  
  
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  Great Benefits - Most Full-Time Staff Are Eligible for:
  
  
  




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  Starting PTO accrual of 20 days PTO/year + 10 holidays/year
  
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  Flexible schedules
  
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  6% 401k match with immediate vesting up to $9k annually
  
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  Semi-annual bonus eligibility (July and December)
  
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  Company funded Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) - a separate qualified retirement account
  
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  Up to $10,000 in annual educational reimbursement
  
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  Other company funded benefits, like life and disability insurance
  
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  Optional zero deductible Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plan
  




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  Track Record of Success:
  
  
  
  We have grown every year since our founding in 1993.
  
  

Modern Technology Solutions, Inc. (MTSI) is a 100% employee-owned engineering services and solutions company that provides high-demand technical expertise in Digital Transformation, Modeling and Simulation, Rapid Capability Development, Test and Evaluation, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, Cybersecurity and Mission Assurance

MTSI delivers capabilities to solve problems of global importance. Founded in 1993, MTSI today has employees at over 20 offices and field sites worldwide.

For more information about MTSI, please visit www.mtsi-va.com