STR is seeking a Lead Intelligence Analyst to join a new group focused on the complex test and evaluation challenges that exist in the modern world.
You will help build and guide an expert team capable of planning, executing, analyzing, and delivering decision-quality results at the speed the Department of War (DoW) requires to field advancements that continue to outpace our adversaries. STR's approach will emphasize product-based delivery of test solutions through an experienced, trusted team that can rapidly adapt to evolving customer needs.
What you will do:
- Research, understand, and lead innovations in intelligence implementations for developmental systems under test. Identify unique and varied opportunities to apply intelligence proficiencies and resources to test activities.
- Identify customer requirements for intelligence, digest unique problem sets, and apply analytic techniques to solve complex challenges in the test community.
- Effectively use intelligence tools, resources, and contacts in the intelligence community to generate products tailored to customers' unique requirements, analyzing multi-domain threats across the core intelligence disciplines: SIGINT, MASINT, OSINT, GEOINT, and HUMINT.
- Lead intelligence team members and connect internal and external customers with intelligence community resources to generate robust analytic analyses for dissemination to national defense and cleared defense industrial base leaders.
- Collaborate with engineering and test teams to ensure systems under test achieve parity with pacing threats.
Who you are:
- Bachelor's degree with at least 7 years of relevant experience; Master's degree with at least 5 years of relevant experience; PhD with at least 2 years of relevant experience; or equivalent experience in intelligence analysis, intelligence operations, or a related field.
- This position requires an active Top Secret security clearance with eligibility to support Special Access Programs (SAP), for which U.S. citizenship is required by the U.S. Government.
- Expert understanding and experience with intelligence support to the U.S. developmental and operational test and evaluation enterprise.
- Expertise in intelligence tools including Fade/MIST, Thresher, WedFISH, MIDB, MARS, and SNOOP.
- Demonstrated leadership of professional intelligence teams.
- Established connections within the intelligence community, with verifiable support to relevant areas of responsibility (AORs), including PACOM, CENTCOM, and EUCOM.
- Military experience with an Associate of Science (A.S.) in Intelligence Studies.
Nice to haves:
- Experience working at or in close coordination with U.S. western test ranges, including the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), Utah Test and Training Range (UTTR), Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, or comparable facilities.
- Working knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) missions and acquisition processes.
- Experience working in joint environments.
- Certified instructor (ACC Classroom Instructor Course or equivalent)
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $173,000 - $220,000
The salary range listed is based on external market data. Final offers are based on factors, such as but not limited to, the candidate’s experience, education, training, key skills/critical skills, security clearances, and prevailing market and business conditions.
STR is a growing technology company with locations near Boston, MA, Arlington, VA, near Dayton, OH, Melbourne, FL, Carlsbad, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Denver, CO. We specialize in advanced research and development for defense, intelligence, and national security in: cyber; next generation sensors, radar, sonar, communications, and electronic warfare; and artificial intelligence algorithms and analytics to make sense of the complexity that is exploding around us.
STR is committed to creating a collaborative learning environment that supports deep technical understanding and recognizes the contributions and achievements of all team members. Our work is challenging, and we go home at night knowing that we pushed the envelope of technology and made the world safer.
STR is not just any company. Our people, culture, and attitude along with their unique set of skills, experiences, and perspectives put us on a trajectory to change the world. We can't do it alone, though - we need fellow trailblazers. If you are one, join our team and help to keep our society safe! Visit us at www.str.us for more info.
STR is an equal opportunity employer. We are fully dedicated to hiring the most qualified candidate regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including gender identity, sexual orientation and pregnancy), marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
If you need a reasonable accommodation for any portion of the employment process, email us at [email protected] and provide your contact info.
Pursuant to applicable federal law and regulations, positions at STR require employees to obtain national security clearances and satisfy the requirements for compliance with export control and other applicable laws.
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